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| On the sensitivity of need estimates to targeting criteria | | Author(s) | Bleddyn Davies |
| Corporate Author | Personal Social Services Research Unit - PSSRU, University of Kent |
| Journal title | International Journal of Health Sciences, vol 4, no 4, 1993 |
| Pages | pp 157-167 |
| Keywords | Community care ; Policy ; Physical disabilities ; Cognitive impairment ; Needs indicators ; Methodology. |
| Annotation | The radical British reform of community care revives the commitment to needs-based planning, a methodology neglected between the 1974 Oil Crisis and the late 1980s. This paper describes the components of British needs-based planning methodology, and how these failed to develop the crude early work on the estimation of numbers in need applying alternative targeting criteria. The paper also describes how the changes in policy require the application of new and changed targeting criteria, and how Americans have recently affected numbers in target groups in the UK by alternative targeting criteria. It shows that the numbers are highly sensitive to the floor levels of ADLs (activities of daily living and IADLs (instrumental ADLs) postulated in different need definitions, to the living arrangements of the disabled person, and to whether the targeting is restricted to those on low income. It also show that numbers are insensitive to the specific inclusion of cognitive impairment and or/behavioural disorder in addition to ADLs and IADLs. (OFFPRINT). (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-980107220 A |
| Classmark | PA: QAD: BN: E4: IK:3RI: 3D * |
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