| |
Centre for Policy on Ageing | |
 | |
|
Developing homelessness prevention practice
— combining research evidence and professional knowledge | | Author(s) | Maureen Crane, Anthony M Warnes, Ruby Fu |
| Journal title | Health & Social Care in the Community, vol 14, no 2, March 2006 |
| Pages | pp 156-166 |
| Source | www.blackwellpublishing.com/hsc |
| Keywords | Homelessness ; Needs [elderly] ; General practice ; Social policy. |
| Annotation | Recommendations of three kinds for the development of homelessness prevention are presented: for practice changes, for the concerted development of evidence of the effectiveness of different measures, and for a more systematic approach to the identification and dissemination of good practice. The recommendations were developed through consultation with health care, social service and housing provider staff. They were asked to comment on the results a study of 131 newly homeless people, which showed that there were five prevalent "packages of reasons" that created distinctive "pathways" into homelessness and concluded that some cases were preventable. This article outlines the principles of homelessness prevention and recent British policy initiatives in the field; summarises the research methodology and relevant findings; and describes the consultation. The final section discusses the discrepancy between the high priority that homelessness prevention currently receives and the primitiveness of both the evidence base and the arrangements for good practice dissemination. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-060424204 A |
| Classmark | K4A: IK: L5: TM2 |
Data © Centre for Policy on Ageing |
|
| ...from the Ageinfo database published by Centre for Policy on Ageing. |
| |
|