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Securing good care for older people
— taking a long-term view | | Author(s) | Bleddyn Davies |
| Journal title | Ageing Horizons, 2007, no 6, 2007 |
| Publisher | Oxford Institute of Ageing, Oxford, 2007 |
| Pages | pp 12-27 |
| Source | Download only from: http:/www.ageing.ox.ac.uk/ageinghorizons |
| Keywords | Services ; Health services ; Needs [elderly] ; Long term ; Finance [care] ; Social policy ; Evaluation. |
| Annotation | Two key features of "Securing good care for older people" (the Wanless report) are explained and evaluated. One is the new elements for the methodology for evaluating the alternatives, which Davies considers focuses attention on what are really the core issues: the means and ends which are the unique foci of long-term care, and estimates of the consequences of the alternatives. By doing so, the report faces politicians, policy analysts and research communities with a formidable challenge: to master and contribute to the development of the new framework and evidence. Failure to meet the challenge will increase the risk that the policy system will reinforce rather than weaken causes of gross inequity and inefficiency caused by the under-funding of long-term care seemingly unanswerably demonstrated by the report. The second key feature is the type of funding model Wanless recommends, given expected changes in the balance between demands and public expenditure. Davies argues that the report's analysis as successfully transforms the state of the argument about this as much as about the framework, methodology and evidence in evaluating alternatives demonstrating the relative weaknesses of models advocated a decade ago. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-070813231 A |
| Classmark | I: L: IK: 4Q: QC: TM2: 4C |
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