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Holding back the years
— how Britain can grow old better in the twenty first century | | Author(s) | Diana Leat, Perri 6 |
| Corporate Author | Demos |
| Publisher | Demos, London, 1997 |
| Pages | 38 pp (Arguments 12) |
| Source | Demos, Magdalen House, 136 Tooley Street, London SE1 2TU. E-mail: hello@demos.co.uk Website: www.demos.co.uk |
| Keywords | Services ; Organisation of care ; Management [care] ; Finance [care] ; Attitudes to the old of general public ; Social policy. |
| Annotation | The authors call for drastic changes in services for older people, which currently put more effort into care instead of prevention of frailty, are fragmented and inefficient, and place a huge burden on families. Instead, policy should focus on: preventing frailty, prolonging the 'third age' and postponing the fourth; for those who require support, creating seamless care, through a unified public purchasing system (referred to as DevoteCare - the Devolved Total Care Model); organising care around the choices, preferences, interests and needs of older people; using organisations and providers without illusions about them; and encouraging and facilitating care by families on a realistic basis. The authors argue for change in our attitudes to ageing. |
| Accession Number | CPA-970812274 B |
| Classmark | I: P: QA: QC: TOB: TM2 |
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