While working as a volunteer at the Latin American Elderly Project, a day centre in Islington, Lucrecia Janowicz recognised that the older members of the project were unable to access the health information that they needed because they didn't speak English. She therefore decided to organise a series of talks ...
This summary contains the findings, conclusions and recommendations of the King's Fund Care and Support Inquiry into the quality of services for people needing care and support. The inquiry was commissioned to examine whether the government's reforms of care service regulation would produce meaningful results and to explore which additional ...
Bringing together the findings from the Caring Choices events and website, this report looks at possible solutions to the problem of funding long-term care. Caring Choices, a coalition of 15 organisations from across the long-term care system, aimed to raise awareness and encourage debate, as well as generate and test ...
Most formal care services for older people are funded by the public sector, but they are largely supplied by independent providers. This paper looks at what factors influence the 'mixed economy' of the care market, including what funding is available and from where, and how commissioning works, and the role ...
CARMEN is the acronym for the 'Care and Management of Services for Older People in Europe Network'. This thematic network has been managed by the European Health Management Association (EHMA) and has been funded by the European Commission under the RTD programme 'Quality of Life and Management of Living Resources ... and This policy framework offers a checklist for national and regional policy makers concerned with improving the integration of services to older people. It also offers a checklist against which older people, carers and their organisations, and all those who are concerned to see change can review the policy of their ...
This study was commissioned to inform the King's Fund Care Services Inquiry, which was set up in response to concerns about the quality , appropriateness and adequacy of care services for older people in London. The King's Fund wanted to investigate how local authorities and their PCT partners were commissioning ...
This guide sets auditing age discrimination in health and social care in the context of recent policy developments. Part One considers different forms of age discrimination, both direct and indirect. It is assumed that effective audits of age discrimination must extend beyond a formal audit of policies and must include ...
This briefing note is based on a review of the research literature and a series of meetings with key stakeholders in older people's health and social care provision. While there are many examples of excellent care for older people in the UK, the review has revealed evidence of unfair age ...
This review examines evidence for the effectiveness of case management for older people. Five outcome measures were considered: hospital admissions, use of emergency departments, length of stay, functional health status and costs. The review concludes that while there is come support in the literature for case management as a method ...