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Cost of community care for older people
- Authors:
- LIVINGSTON Gill, MANELA Monica, KATONA Cornelius
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Psychiatry, 171, July 1997, pp.56-59.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
Describes the financial cost of formal community services for elderly people with dementia, depression, anxiety disorders of physical disability. Results found that dementia was the most expensive disorder per sufferer in terms of formal services. Those with depression were also high users of health services. The highest service cost for the population as a whole was for the physically disabled. Concludes that failure to detect and treat depression and the anxiety disorders in older people, despite their presentation to medical services, may have major economic consequences as well as contributing to individual suffering.
Volunteering by people with disabilities: a route to opportunity
- Author:
- NIYAZI Filiz
- Publisher:
- National Centre for Volunteering
- Publication year:
- 1996
- Pagination:
- 25p.
- Place of publication:
- London
One way in which disabled people can demonstrate their independence is by taking up voluntary work. The problem is, however, that the premises are not always physically accessible. Their advertising does not always make it clear that disabled people are as welcome as anyone else. Despite their much-vaunted equal opportunities policies, they are not always prepared to foot the bill for the extra support disabled volunteers sometimes need (there are not always extra costs involved). And the kind of training they provide for their volunteers rarely takes account of disabled people in its design, content and delivery.