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"I live with other people and not alone"
— a survey of the views and experiences of older people using Shared Lives (adult placement) | | Author(s) | Nadia Brookes, Sinead Palmer, Lisa Callaghan |
| Journal title | Working with Older People, vol 20, no 3, 2016 |
| Publisher | Emerald, 2016 |
| Pages | pp 179-186 |
| Source | www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/wwop.htm |
| Keywords | Living with others ; Quality of life ; Community care ; Attitude ; Qualitative Studies. |
| Annotation | The authors report findings of a survey on the positive and negative views and experiences of older people using Shared Lives (adult placement) in 2012/2013, and whether it had made a difference to their quality of life. Questionnaires were returned by 150 older people using Shared Lives services. Findings suggest that this model of community-based support has a number of advantages for some older people, such as reducing social isolation and loneliness, promoting independence, choice and control, providing emotional support and increased well-being. A limitation is that the questionnaire was self-completed, and so responses were not followed up to provide deeper insights. Shared Lives is not appropriate for everyone, but it is suggested that this option should form part of local commissioning strategies, be part of a range of options for social care practitioners to consider in their work with older people and in meeting various current policy imperatives. The potential of Shared Lives for older people is under-researched, so this paper contributes to the literature in exploring the views of older people about family-based support in the community. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-161125232 A |
| Classmark | KA: F:59: PA: DP: 3DP |
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