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Community care in Taiwan: mere talk, no policy
- Authors:
- CHOU Yueh-Ching, KROGER Teppo
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work in Mental Health, 2(2/3), 2004, pp.139-155.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
This article explores the policy definitions and the funder roles of central and local governments in community care in Taiwan. The notion of community care has been adopted in Taiwan following the model of Hong Kong but the main question of the article is whether this has resulted in actual service provisions at the community level, forming an alternative to institutional care. The data has been collected from several sources: policy documents, official statistics, surveys, general reports, funding provision reports, and empirical studies. The results show that neither central nor local authorities are seriously involved in caring for elderly people or persons with disabilities in Taiwan's communities. In Taiwan, community care for these groups of people still means, in practice, informal care provided by female family members without any support from public policies. (Copies of this article are available from: Haworth Document Delivery Centre, Haworth Press Inc., 10 Alice Street, Binghamton, NY 13904-1580)
The absolute limit
- Author:
- IVORY Mark
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 25.3.93, 1993, pp.20-21.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Implementation 12: Expresses the fears that care managers may face the dilemma of having to direct elderly people and people with learning difficulties into residential care or a nursing home because they cannot afford to keep them in their own-homes.
Higher benefits and better indicators need to cut poverty claim charities
- Author:
- WELLARD Sarah
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 2.10.03, 2003, pp.18-19.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Looks at the governments progress so far in tackling poverty light of its fifth annual poverty report 'Opportunity for all'. Also highlights areas that are not included in the poverty indicators.
Later life and the social model of disability: a comfortable partnership?
- Author:
- OLDMAN Christine
- Journal article citation:
- Ageing and Society, 22(6), November 2002, pp.791-806.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
Reviews the arguments for and against closer links between later life and disability studies. The article focuses on housing policies for older people, and highlights how older people have to submit to the medical model of later life if they receive health or social care services. The argument against an association between later life studies and disability studies is that later life is an immensely diverse experience, much of it nothing to do with disability. The article argues for a specific application of the social model of disability to the situation of older people with impairments who receive services. Concludes with examples of the value of the social model of disability at both the policy and political levels.
Carer break or carer-blind? Policies for informal carers in the UK
- Author:
- PICKARD Linda
- Journal article citation:
- Social Policy and Administration, 35(4), September 2001, pp.441-458.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
This article examines three policy statements on informal carers published in the UK in 1999: the National Strategy for Carers, the report of the Royal Commission on Long Term Care and the note of dissent by two members of the Royal Commission. These three documents contain two rather different approaches to policy for carers. On the one hand, the National Strategy and note of dissent emphasise respite care or short-term breaks for carers, and are concerned with sustaining the well-being of carers as well as ensuring the continuation of caring itself. The Royal Commission, on the other hand, emphasises support for the older or disabled person who is being cared for, as a means of supporting the carer, and advocates 'carer-blind' services. It is argued that this policy contains within it the potential to substitute for or replace the carer and that this represents a radical new departure for social policy for carers in the UK. The advantages and disadvantages of the two policy approaches are explored. It is argued that policies for carers should include both services specifically for carers, like breaks from caring, and services provided for the cared-for person, like domestic and personal care services. Wider issues about the proper boundary between family and state care are explored.
In need of protection
- Author:
- INMAN Kendra
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 22.1.98, 1998, p.23.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Campaigners are calling for more and better policies to combat the abuse of vulnerable adults, and for the government to take a lead. The author reports on the issues.
A victim of its own success
- Author:
- SUTTON Diana
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 11.3.93, 1993, p.11.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Disabled people are angry and disappointed about the demise of the Independent Living Fund. Although Nicholas Scott, Minister for Disabled People recognises the success of the ILF he maintains that it was introduced as an interim measure and says that after 1st April local authorities will have to produce community care packages for elderly disabled people. Reports on the debate about ILF's future.
Dementia and well-being: possibilities and challenges
- Author:
- COOK Ailsa
- Publisher:
- Dunedin Academic Press
- Publication year:
- 2008
- Pagination:
- 90p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
In recent years, policy and legislation in both England and Scotland has sought to promote the well-being of users of health and social care services, such as people with dementia. Most recent policy across the UK has identified key objectives, attainment of which is essential to the well-being of service users as governments have introduced a range of initiatives to ensure that services deliver good outcomes to service users. To date, however, there has been very little consideration of how inclusive this agenda is to people with dementia. Ailsa Cook addresses this gap by reviewing critically recent health and social care policy in Scotland and England in light of the growing body of empirical research into the experiences and perspectives of people with dementia. She draws on this evidence to consider the particular challenges associated with delivering four key outcomes to people with dementia identified by policy makers as fundamental to well-being. These are: independence, health, choice and social inclusion. The book examines the potential for current policy proposals to meet the needs of people with diverse experiences of dementia and considers the particular issues relating to including people with dementia as partners in policy and practice - a key principle underpinning all health and social care. In so doing the book contributes a much needed policy perspective to the field of dementia, as well as providing a fresh lens through which to consider the difference that proposed policies can make to a diverse range of service users. Intended as a text for Dementia Studies and gerontology students the specific focus of this book on the inter-relationship of policy and dementia ensures its place as a key reference for policy makers and administrators assessing the impact of policies, both implemented and proposed.
Direct payments in England: factors linked to variations in local provision
- Authors:
- FERNANDEZ Jose-Luis, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Social Policy, 36(1), January 2007, pp.97-121.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
- Place of publication:
- Cambridge
Direct payments have moved to the heart of the government's drive for increased user choice. At the same time, implementation has remained disappointing. This article explores the demand, supply and related factors associated with patterns of local variability in uptake and intensity of care package provision. Statistical analyses are conducted for key client groups – people with physical disabilities, older people, people with learning disabilities and people who use mental health services – using data for England from 2000–01 to 2002–03. The results suggest that direct payments variability reflects a complex array of factors, both within and beyond the control of local public actors. In particular, while local policy preferences appear to shape the extent of direct payments growth, the results also demonstrate that understanding levels of activity requires attention to local circumstances.
The Cambridge handbook of age and ageing
- Editors:
- JOHNSON Malcolm L., (ed.)
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 744p.
- Place of publication:
- Cambridge
This is a guide to the current body of knowledge, theory, policy and practice relevant to age researchers and gerontologists around the world. It contains almost 80 original chapters, commissioned and written by the world's leading gerontologists from 16 countries and 5 continents. The broad focus of the book is on the behavioural and social sciences but it also includes important contributions from the biological and medical sciences. It provides comprehensive, accessible and authoritative accounts of all the key topics in the field ranging from theories of ageing, to demography, physical aspects of ageing, mental processes and ageing, nursing and health care for older people, the social context of ageing, cross cultural perspectives, relationships, quality of life, gender, and financial and policy provision.