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Expecting the worst?
— views on the future of long-term care | | Author(s) | Melanie Henwood, Eileen Waddington |
| Corporate Author | Help the Aged; Community Care Division, Nuffield Institute for Health |
| Publisher | Help the Aged, London, 1998 |
| Pages | 37 pp (Research report) |
| Source | Help the Aged, St James's Walk, Clerkenwell Green, London EC1R OBE. |
| Keywords | Services ; Health services ; Long term ; Rights [elderly] ; Consumer ; Qualitative Studies. |
| Annotation | People's expectations of long-term care services were the central issues considered in this qualitative study commissioned by Help the Aged and undertaken by the Nuffield Institute for Health's Community Care Division. Questions of funding are only part of the "problem" in the debate on long-term care; but equally important are the nature and type of services required. Seven focus groups (of 45 women and 91 men) were organised in different parts of England and Wales, from three broad age bands: 3 groups aged 75-85 (current service users and those likely to become so); 2 groups aged 55-65 (pre-retirement and just retired); and 2 groups aged 40-50 (a middle-aged perspective). Core themes explored included: views on ageing; the type and nature of social care support people might need in the future; and how they envisaged making decisions on any future care arrangements. Any new model of long-term care should reflect the following concerns: who is to be responsible, incorporating a sense of justice and fairness; promoting independence and control rather than dependence; integrated approaches to care; roles and responsibilities; and valuing older people. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-000818502 B |
| Classmark | I: L: 4Q: IKR: WY: 3DP |
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