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Age Concern England's response to the Department of Health consultation on the single assessment process
— guidance for local implementation | | Corporate Author | Age Concern England - ACE |
| Publisher | Age Concern England, London, September 2001 |
| Pages | 12 pp (Policy Papers, ref: 2001) |
| Source | Age Concern England, Astral House, 1268 London Road, London SW16 4ER. |
| Keywords | Needs [elderly] ; Evaluation ; Social Services Departments ; Health services ; Interaction [welfare services] ; Age Concern ; Comments or Evidence submitted. |
| Annotation | The National Service Framework for older people (NSF) includes a new process for assessing the needs of older people for both health and social care services. Age Concern comments on draft guidance issued by the Department of Health (DH); it supports the principle of a single assessment for health and social care, and welcomes proposals that, where appropriate, other service providers (e.g. housing departments) should be involved. However, ACE notes two pitfalls in the single assessment approach. The first is the possibility of one agency, for example health, predominating to the exclusion of others. The second, that older people's lack of knowledge of who provides what services, and what kinds of personal information are being shared between different agencies, may have a disempowering effect. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-020325212 P |
| Classmark | IK: 4C: PF: L: QK6: PT: 6PM * |
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