Social Care For Older People

Funding health and social services for older people: a qualitative study of the views of care recipients in the last year of life

by Elizabeth Lowson

Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine

The unmet needs of referrals to old age psychiatry liaison services

by Claudia Miranda

Independent living in later life

by Jane Parry

Jane Parry, Sandra Vegeris, Maria Hudson, Helen Barnes and
Rebecca Taylor (2004) 'Independent Living in Later Life', Research Report no. 216, Department for Work & Pensions: HMSO.

This report brings together findings from qualitative research undertaken by the Policy Studies Institute (PSI) during... more This report brings together findings from qualitative research undertaken by the Policy Studies Institute (PSI) during 2003/04 on behalf of the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP). This
explored factors influencing perceptions and experiences of independent living in later life and analysed pensioners’ service needs and accessing behaviour, in turn considering the relationship between independence and service use. These issues are timely given the projected rise in the proportion of the UK’s population which is over State Pension age in the near future. The research was also designed to provide refinement of the DWP’s Customer Segmentation Model for Today’s Pensioners, a tool depicting a sliding scale of support needs, differentiating pensioners into seven subsegments on the basis of key demographic criteria.

Psychometric properties of the Satisfaction with Life Scale among Turkish university students, Correctional officers, and elderly adults

by Mithat Durak

Key Words: Satisfaction with Life Scale, SWLS, university students, elderly, correctional officers, confirmatory factor analysis, reliability, concurrent validity, discriminant validity, multi-group comparison

This study aims to extensively examine the psychometric properties of adapted version of the Satisfaction with Life... more This study aims to extensively examine the psychometric properties of adapted version of the Satisfaction with Life Scale (SWLS) in different Turkish samples. In order to test the psychometric properties of the SWLS three separate and independent samples are utilized in this study, namely university students (n = 547), correctional officers (n = 166), and elderly adults (n = 123). Concerning the reliability of the scale, internal consistency and item-total correlation coefficients are found to be satisfactory for all three samples. As for the validity studies, concurrent validity of the scale is supported in all three samples by revealing the association of SWLS with conceptually related measures, which included depression, self-esteem, positive affect and negative affect, work stress, and monthly income measures. Discriminant validity is examined only in the sample of university students, and SWLS revealed a non-significant correlation with a conceptually unrelated construct (i.e., willingness to self-censor). Consistent with the original scale, a single-factor solution model reveals an adequate fit in all three different samples. Furthermore, confirmatory factor analysis with multi-group comparisons performed demonstrates that SWLS has the same theoretical structure for three different groups on the basis of a single-factor solution model. The theoretical and practical implications of this study are discussed.

イギリスにおける高齢者福祉: シェフィールド市のボランティア組織の活動を中心に (Caring for Older People in the UK: An Analysis of Local Volunteer Organisation Contributions in Sheffield).

by Peter Matanle

Co-authored peer reviewed journal article.

Sato, Y. and Matanle, P. (2010) Igirisu ni okeru kōreisha fukushi: Shefiirudo no boranchia soshiki no katsudo wo chūshin ni (Caring for older people in the UK: An analysis of local volunteer organisation contributions in Sheffield), Jinbun Kagaku Kenkyū - Studies in Humanities (Faculty of Humanities, Niigata University), 127: 1-27.

日本は世界でもっとも高齢化がすすんだ国である。日本の高齢化率は2009年10月1日に22.7％になり超高齢社会に入った（「平成22年度高齢者白... more 日本は世界でもっとも高齢化がすすんだ国である。日本の高齢化率は2009年10月1日に22.7％になり超高齢社会に入った（「平成22年度高齢者白 書」）。しかしながら超高齢社会会への対策が追い付かず、政策は後手に回っている。超高齢社会に適した社会制度を構築することが、ますます大きな政治的社 会的課題になっている。先進国のみならず発展途上国でも高齢化社会に入っている国は少なくなく、世界的規模で高齢社会の対策が急務とされている。これまで 日本でも国家と家族が福祉を支えあう日本型福祉社会論が提唱されてきたが、財源不足から近年は福祉ミックス論が叫ばれている。日本では2000年から介護 保険制度が導入され、「介護の社会化」をすすめており、地域で包括的に福祉をまかなう計画がたてられている
　イギリスの高齢者問題は生活の質や尊厳ある生よりも年金や医療、ケアなどにかかる財政負担の側面に注目が集まり議論されてきた（Walker 1990）。財政問題は世代を超えてどのように共に社会を構築してゆくのかという課題を突き付けている。その点で、高齢者の医療、ケア問題は住みやすい社 会をどのようにつくるのかという課題に関して世代を超えてともに考える絶好の機会を与えている。
　本稿は以下のような構成になっている。はじめに、イギリスの政府・行政が実施している高齢者福祉についてシェフィールド市社会サービス部門の実践活動を 取り上げてみてゆく。次に、シェフィールド市を含むノッチンゲン市に支部を置く高齢者ボランティアの全国組織であるHelp the Agedの活動についてみてゆく。そして、シェフィールド市で高齢者福祉の活動している地方のボランティア組織の活動をみてゆく。最後に、高齢者福祉の状 況について日本と比較し、そこから有益な知見を導くことにする。

The Development of Long-term Care Insurance in Britain

by Harriet Clarke

“Estatísticas de Equipamentos Sociais de Apoio à Terceira Idade em Portugal _ 2006”

by Rita Borges Neves

Ignácio Martin, Rita Neves, Cátia Pires, Joana Portugal
2006, UnifAI, University of Porto

Os responsáveis pelo sistema formal de prestação de cuidados, principalmente gestores e decisores políticos,... more Os responsáveis pelo sistema formal de prestação de cuidados, principalmente gestores e decisores políticos, necessitam de dados sistematizados e pormenorizados. Eles são fundamentais para entender se as diferentes tipologias de serviços sociais estão a ser desenvolvidas de forma articulada com a necessidade efectiva de cuidados.
Esta publicação traz, duma forma simples, os dados necessários para conhecer o comportamento do sistema formal de cuidados em Portugal. Damos a conhecer estatísticas
descritivas e compreensivas da realidade concelhia, distrital e nacional sobre os equipamentos mais relevantes de respostas comunitárias (Centro de Dia e Serviço de Apoio Domiciliário),
assim como de internamento (Lares de Idosos).

Welfare arrangements, safety nets and familial support for the elderly in Portugal

by Alexandra Lopes

Understanding paid care work-towards a new critique

by Geraldine Lee-Treweek

Manchester University Occasional Papers Series, No.43
Published
01/07/1995

Publisher
University of Manchester,Department of Sociology

ISBN
9780946180424

Discourse, Care and Control: an ethnography of residential and nursing home elder care work

by Geraldine Lee-Treweek

1994, unpublished PhD thesis, University of Plymouth, UK

The thesis has been digitally archived at the URL above, as of July 2011 it is available there but please let me know if you find it has been moved/removed.

The Phd is an ethnography of the labour process of care in nursing and residential homes for older people in the South... more The Phd is an ethnography of the labour process of care in nursing and residential homes for older people in the South West of the UK. The fieldwork was carried out between 1992-93. Whilst 'care' is the stated aim of such institutions, there are other goals/aims which relate to social policy, funding constraints and to (often ageist) ideas about how older age should be managed. The work examines the labour of relatively untrained staff - care assistants and also nursing auxiliaries and indicates some of the reasons why care can easily become abuse. Although the structured routines and stress of caring can influence this, other factors such as weak management, failure to monitor staff, lack of training and lay beliefs about older age and 'caring' all play a role in the provision of care that can be deemed abusive. The doctorate utilises Foucauldian theory to understand why discourses of care can slip into being discourses of abuse.

La traducción del cuidado. La teoría del actor-red y el estudio de la interdependencia en la teleasistencia para personas mayores

by Tomás Sánchez Criado

Sánchez-Criado, T. & López, D. Published in Estudios de Psicología, 30(2), 199-213, 2009

En los últimos años las políticas de cuidado han dado un giro importante hacia la “promoción de la autonomía” frente a... more En los últimos años las políticas de cuidado han dado un giro importante hacia la “promoción de la autonomía” frente a la “asistencia a la dependencia”. Esto ha generado un importante debate entorno a las nociones de autonomía y dependencia en las ciencias sociales. El presente texto es una contribución a este debate a través del breve análisis de la instalación de un servicio de teleasistencia domiciliaria, una de las tecnologías de atención que se inscriben más directamente en la lógica de la promoción de la autonomía. Nos centraremos en la noción de interdependencia que, a nuestro juicio, permite salvar la tendencia al individualismo y al sociologismo que impera en estos debates, pero creemos que debe ser completada incorporando a los otros-no-humanos. A través de la noción de traducción argumentaremos que la interdependencia se da siempre como resultado de un proceso de corporeización y estabilización de diversas ecologías de prácticas.

Dwelling the Telecare Home: Place, Location and Habitality

by Tomás Sánchez Criado

D. López & T. Sánchez-Criado (2009). In Space & Culture, 12(3), 343-358

Home has become a newly fostered place for care giving in what might be called an aging in place paradigm. As a... more Home has become a newly fostered place for care giving in what might be called an aging in place paradigm. As a result, thinking about how the home's spatialities are configured and how they might transform caring has become an important issue for the social sciences. This article is a contribution to this line of thought and looks at being-at-home from a non-anthropocentric point of view. By focusing on the telecare cases of an ongoing ethnographic project and drawing on Heideggerian insights on dwelling and place, we coin the term habitality. We think this term is useful for two purposes: (1) to think about the home as a materially heterogeneous set of spatialities and subjectivities and (2) to understand being-at-home not as a way of living in an enclosed and protected shelter of routine activities, but as a way of combining those spatialities and subjectivities and the differences (and oddities) they might bring.