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Adapting your home: ideas and products to make life easier
- Author:
- RICA
- Publisher:
- RICA
- Publication year:
- 1996
- Pagination:
- 15p.,list of orgs.
- Place of publication:
- London
Booklet offering practical ideas about home adaptations for older people and disabled people. Includes a list of relevant commercial and voluntary organisations.
The National Assistance (Sums for Personal Requirements) Regulations 1996
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Parliament
- Publisher:
- HMSO
- Publication year:
- 1996
- Pagination:
- 2p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Charges for residential accommodation: CRAG amendment no. 7
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 1996
- Pagination:
- 8p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Circular adding to the information contained in LAC(96)9 about amendments to the charging assessment rules local authorities apply in respect of adults placed in residential accommodation as a consequence of amendments to the Regulations.
Working and caring: developments at the workplace for family carers of disabled and older people
- Author:
- PHILLIPS Judith Eleri
- Publisher:
- European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions
- Publication year:
- 1996
- Pagination:
- 59p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Dublin
Report from an international conference highlighting issues around working and caring, focusing in particular on those caring for older and disabled people. Presents the policy issues from the perspectives of employers, Trade Unions, governments and public authorities; and non-governmental organisations and carers organisations. Goes on to look at why caring for adults is a workplace issue and at what is being done for working carers. Concludes with a section on what can be done to improve the employment prospects of carers.
Options for long-term care: economic, social and ethical choices
- Editors:
- HARDING Tessa, MEREDITH Barbara, WISTOW Gerald
- Publisher:
- HMSO/National Institute for Social Work
- Publication year:
- 1996
- Pagination:
- 152p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Examines the debate around long term care and proposes a different approach to planning for future long term care. Concludes that the increase in expenditure needed over the next 30 years is not so great as to be a cause for alarm, though some reinvestment may be needed in the short term. Suggests that affordability is a question of political choice, rather than economic imperatives. Reviews the values underpinning long term care and proposes a broad based strategic approach. Looks at the issues from the point of view of disabled people as well as older people. Concludes with 2 chapters comparing the situation in the United States and in Germany.
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.
The fight-for-rights
- Author:
- THOMPSON Audrey
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 18.7.96, 1996, pp.14-15.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
The author writes that disabled people, elderly people with learning difficulties are all speaking out loudly to be heard.
Outcome of anxiety and depression at two and a half years after baseline interview: associations with changes in psychiatric morbidity among three samples of elderly people living at home
- Authors:
- BOWLING Ann, FARQUHAR Morag, GRUDY Emily
- Journal article citation:
- International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 11(2), February 1996, pp.119-129.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Examines psychiatric morbidity, using the General Health Questionnaire, which detects mainly anxiety and depression. The results of the follow-up data show that the most significant predictor of changes in psychiatric morbidity at follow-up was baseline psychiatric status, followed by health status. The strength of the study is its longitudinal design and verification of the results in three samples of elderly people, including one very elderly group. The lack of consistent associations with recovery from psychiatric morbidity (eg depression) in the literature enhances the importance of studies which aim to identify factors associated with different outcomes.
A shift of focus
- Authors:
- CHETWYND Mark, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 29.2.96, 1996, pp.26-27.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Charges for home care services are having a devastating impact on clients. The authors interview 36 disabled people living in five different local authorities. In spite of differences in charging policies and individual circumstances, similar issues were raised by service users.
Dementia and the social model of disability
- Authors:
- GWILLIAN Claire, GILLIARD Jane
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Dementia Care, 4(1), January 1996, pp.14-15.
- Publisher:
- Hawker
The social model of disability claims it is society that disables people who have impairments, by creating an environment which is physically and socially hostile. The authors argue that this model is a highly relevant and valuable way to think about dementia.