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Wanted : one gay care worker
— [direct payments made to older gay and lesbian service users] | | Author(s) | Anne Gulland |
| Journal title | Community Care, issue 1757, 12 February 2009 |
| Pages | pp 24-25 |
| Source | www.communitycare.co.uk |
| Keywords | Sexual orientation ; Older men ; Older women ; Needs [elderly] ; Usage [services] ; Attitude ; Social workers. |
| Annotation | Direct payments should transform the lives of older gay and lesbian service users, but anecdotal evidence suggests that is often not the case. A volunteer on the Alzheimer's Society's lesbian and gay telephone helpline describes his difficulties in answering enquiries based on experiences of partners who had died who could have benefited from the flexibility offered by direct payments. The 2008 Commission for Social Care Inspection (CSCI) report, 'Putting people first: equality and diversity matters: providing appropriate services for lesbian, gay and bisexual and transgender people' also stresses flexibility and good practice. However, fear of homophobia in care workers is taken up in a policy brief by Primrose Musingarimi for the International Longevity Centre (ILC-UK), and by Steve Pugh of Salford University who is undertaking a PhD on the statutory response to the needs of older lesbians and gay men. Thus, with direct payments comes responsibility that many people do not want to have. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-090406202 A |
| Classmark | ES6: BC: BD: IK: QLD: DP: QR * |
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