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"It pays dividends"
— direct payments and older people | | Author(s) | Heather Clark, Helen Gough, Ann Macfarlane |
| Corporate Author | Joseph Rowntree Foundation - JRF |
| Publisher | The Policy Press, for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, Bristol, 2004 |
| Pages | 63 pp |
| Source | The Policy Press, University of Bristol, Fourth Floor, Beacon House, Queens Road, Clifton, Bristol BS8 1QU. E-mail: tpp-info@bristol.ac.uk Orders: Marston Book Services, PO Box 269, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4YN. E-mail:
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| Keywords | Services ; Community care ; Social security benefits ; Consumer choice ; Social surveys. |
| Annotation | The scope of the Community Care (Direct Payments) Act 1996 was extended to older people in February 2000. However, given that take-up so far has been low, scepticism remains about older people's desire and ability to use direct payments. The project on which this report is based has been supported by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) as part of its programme of research and innovative development projects. The report draws on interviews with older people, local authority care managers and direct support service workers, and looks at how older people use direct payments and how they make them work. Key issues discussed include: the benefits of direct payments to older people, such as independent living; the experiences of a group of minority ethnic older people receiving direct payments; the perspectives of care managers; the role of direct payments support services; and local authority funding of support services. The report is particularly valuable in reflecting the views and experiences of the older people themselves. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-040309204 B |
| Classmark | I: PA: JH: WYC: 3F |
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| ...from the Ageinfo database published by Centre for Policy on Ageing. |
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