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| Flexible, person-centred home care for older people | | Author(s) | Charles Patmore, Alison McNulty |
| Corporate Author | Social Policy Research Unit - SPRU, University of York |
| Publisher | University of York, York, June 2005 |
| Pages | 4 pp (Research works no 4) |
| Source | Information Office, SPRU, University of York, Heslington, York YO10 5DD. http://www.york.ac.uk/spru/research |
| Keywords | Domiciliary services ; Commercial care ; Social Services Departments ; Contracts ; Social surveys. |
| Annotation | What enables some home care workers to spend quality time talking to isolated older people, to take them out shopping, or to find them a trustworthy plumber? Some home care services give their customers such flexible help, which may benefit their morale, but others do not. The authors outline a research project in which they interviewed older service users, home care staff, managers and social services purchasers to explore the factors which make possible a flexible, person-centred approach. Independent agencies are becoming a common source from which social services departments (SSDs) commission long-term home care for older people. These findings outline examples of flexible, person-centred home care for older people from research carried out between 2001 and 2004. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-051006201 P |
| Classmark | N: PI: PF: 6QH: 3F * |
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