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Dementia: what legal and financial planning should I consider?
From whether you should be paying for care through to sorting out an LPA, Professor June Andrews looks at some of the key things to consider if you or a loved one have dementia.
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Ageing in place technology: revolutionising retirement living
The innovation team from ExtraCare Charitable Trust recently triumphed at the Senior Housing Awards, winning the “Best Use of Technology in Seniors Housing” award. Here, their Research and Technology Lead Kerry Stack explains how their appliance of science is breaking down barriers and helping older people age in place.
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Providing health care, social care, community support and housing for older people: a good practice model
Some thirty years ago, writes Peter Dale, the Rye Winchelsea and District Memorial Hospital in East Sussex was threatened with closure. Today, it is an example of what can be achieved by a combination of professional collaboration, community involvement and a willingness to “join the dots” between services.
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Why are numbers of residents with dementia in care homes increasing?
Why are there more residents with dementia in care homes and how does that impact on the care homes themselves? By Professor June Andrews.
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Methodist Homes: on a mission to “fix care for all”
Methodist Homes (MHA), the largest charity care provider in the UK, is on a mission to fix care for all. Their Campaigns and Public Affairs Officer, Luke Buckland, explains how you can help support their aims.
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Uncounted is unseen: has the time come to collect more official data on ageing without children?
Mapping informal carers and their support needs has rightly become a key priority for health and social care in recent years. However, equivalent information about access to informal care, including where there is none, has lagged behind, writes Penny Shepherd MBE of AWOC (Ageing Without Children).
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A unique way to pay for residential care… without selling your home
Every year, thousands of elderly people and their families face the conundrum of how to pay for care home fees – which can typically be between £40,000 and £50,000 a year. We talk to Jeremy Nixey of Alliance member Shaw Lifetime Care, part of the charitable Shaw Foundation, about the unique option they offer.
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Health and social care integration: the myths and the realities from a social worker’s perspective
“It cries out to be released from present day 19th-century asylum-based narratives of social care reform.” Mervyn Eastman has spent over 45 years in and around social care and social work. What does HE see as the way forward for this vital service?
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ADASS Survey Reaction: Prevention and a skilled workforce are key to the future of social care
Sam Monaghan, the CEO of MHA, sets out the key ways in which we can address the crisis in the social care system… including recognising, rewarding and retaining the people already working in it.
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Sounds brilliant: tuning in to age friendly radio
If you’re not already an avid listener, you might want to tune into the great output of The Later Life Audio and Radio Cooperative (LLARC): an award-winning and growing network of older radio show hosts, age-friendly radio stations, voluntary and community sector organisations and academic researchers working on age-related issues.
