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| The changing face of community health and social care and its impact on older people: a replication 1991-2 and 1995-6 | | Author(s) | Barbara Wade |
| Corporate Author | Daphne Heald Research Unit, Royal College of Nursing - RCN |
| Publisher | Royal College of Nursing - RCN, London, 1998 |
| Pages | 109 pp plus appendices |
| Source | RCN Institute, 20 Cavendish Square, London W1M 0AB. |
| Keywords | Services ; Health services ; Community care ; Over 70s ; Family care ; Attitude ; Social surveys ; United Kingdom. |
| Annotation | Older people living in the community need access to both health and social care services, and cooperation between the two types of service is essential. This study, funded by the RCN and the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, was designed to enable older people and their carers to give their views about the services they receive and would prefer. It compared the levels and types of health and social care services received by a random sample of people aged 75 years and over in 1995-96 with that of a comparable sample in 1991-92. The following topics were examined: social activities and relationships; illness, disability, physical symptoms, falls and use of aids and adaptations; cognitive impairment and depression; self-care, informal health and provision of services; satisfaction with health and social services, including district nursing, continence care, day hospitals, respite care, and care assessments; general practitioner (GP) services; and hospital services. The findings suggest that in 1995-96 both health and social care were targeted at more heavily dependent older people. Overall, the levels of care and satisfaction with services were greater in 1995-96 than it was in 1991-92. (AKM). |
| Accession Number | CPA-980714401 B |
| Classmark | I: L: PA: BBK: P6:SJ: DP: 3F: 8 |
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