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Changes in health, mortality, and disability and their impact on long-term care needs
- Authors:
- MANTON Kenneth G., STALLARD Eric
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Aging and Social Policy, 7(3/4), 1996, pp.25-52.
- Publisher:
- Routledge
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
This article examines changes in the health of the U.S. elderly population using the 1982, 1994, and 1989 National Long Term Care Surveys. Both disability prevalence and active life expectancy changes are examined. Second, advances in treatments that improved prognoses and were cost-effective are examined. Third, changes in Medicare use-especially when biomedical advances allow some long-term care needs to be met by interventions in early disease stages - are considered. Results suggest that, while the amount of long term care services needed will increase rapidly, the types and amounts of services used by the U.S. elderly population will undergo significant change.
Supporting disabled parents: a family or a fragmented approach?
- Author:
- COMMISSION FOR SOCIAL CARE INSPECTION
- Publisher:
- Commission for Social Care Inspection
- Publication year:
- 2009
- Pagination:
- 55p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This CSCI report seeks to examine the experiences of disabled parents and their families and to see how far council policies, services and practice are providing appropriate support. The findings in this report are taken from a national survey of 50 councils; of the 70 interviews, 36 were conducted with representatives of adults’ services and 32 of children’s services, and two were conducted with a representative from each service jointly. To supplement the national picture, in-depth study workshops of services were conducted in four council areas. The report finds that many councils do not fully support disabled parents and their children.
Disabled children in long-term fostering and adoption
- Author:
- -
- Journal article citation:
- Adoption and Fostering, 24(4), Winter 2000, pp.57-59.
- Publisher:
- Sage
Describes how the BAAF Disability Project has undertaken research on the placement for permanency of disabled children through fostering and adoption. Undertook a questionnaire survey of local authorities in order to develop a more complete profile of disabled children and their placement needs. At this was the first study of its kind, additional data were sought including information about ethnicity and matching, the specific impairments of the children and young people, how the families were identified, reasons for delay and details about siblings.
Why must government must ring the changes on charges
- Author:
- WRIGHT Simon
- Journal article citation:
- Working with Older People, 4(3), July 2000, pp.21-23.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
The author argues that the government's announcement that it will amend the Care Standards Bill to enable it to issue enforceable guidelines on charging for care services is a step in the right direction. Describes some of the adverse consequences on service users when councils charge for essential services and the safeguards that should be included in any national guidance.
Housing: new laws may force people back into institutions
- Author:
- ASPIS Simone
- Journal article citation:
- Community Living, 9(4), April 1996, pp.4-5.
- Publisher:
- Hexagon Publishing
The author fears the Government's plan to introduce new criteria for Disability Facilities Grants and Housing Benefit could mean a return to long-term residence in institutions for disabled people.
Disability and cognitive impairment criteria: targeting those who need the most home care
- Authors:
- SPECTOR William D., KEMPER Peter
- Journal article citation:
- Gerontologist, 34(5), October 1994, pp.640-651.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
Illustrates the process of evaluating alternative eligibility criteria based on one possible targeting goal - serving those who need the most care. Channelling data are used to construct a measure of total care needs which is used to evaluate success at meeting the targeting goal. Results indicate the difficulty of establishing eligibility cutoffs that are equitable and meet the targeting goal.
Allocation of care and services in an area-based system for long-term care of elderly and disabled people
- Author:
- LAGERGREN Marten
- Journal article citation:
- Ageing and Society, 14(3), September 1994, pp.357-381.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
In order to analyse the allocation of public care services in the city of Solna, Sweden, and how they changed in response to a rapid growth of the number of elderly people, a comparison was made between two surveys, 1985 and 1991. The analysis showed that older and non-married persons were more likely to become clients of the public care system. Institutionalisation was also more common among the non-married - especially for men. Reductions in institutionalisation had most impact on very old, non-married men. Functional disability and living arrangements were the most important variables in explaining the allocation of home help in domiciliary care and sheltered housing.
Social security and community care
- Editors:
- BALDWIN Sally, PARKER Gillian, WALKER Robert
- Publisher:
- Avebury
- Publication year:
- 1988
- Pagination:
- 205p.,tables.
- Place of publication:
- Aldershot