Knowledge of Community Services Amongst The Aged

Gibson, Diane

doi:10.1002/j.1839-4655.1984.tb01263.x

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Elderly Consumers and Social Care Policy

Brown¹,

Davey²,

Halladay³

1986

Aust J Social Issues

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The development of social care policy for elderly Australians is proceeding with little regard for the preferences and perspectives as expressed by the elderly themselves. The likely consequence is a continuation of policies based largel)1 on other people's assumptions about what elderly people actually need and the extension of service categories into which many elderly people do not easily fit. Discussions with 71 elderly consumers during 1983 in Queensland established that they have input to make into policy and service delivery issues such as the provision of information on services, the determination of needs, the extension of choices between alternative services and choice of appropriate service providers. Social care policy should not continue to develop around singular and untested assumptions concerning what elderly people need and prefer.

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Elderly Consumers and Social Care Policy

Brown¹,

Davey²,

Halladay³

1986

Aust J Social Issues

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‘Someone's Decision: That is How I Got Here’

Minichiello¹

1987

Aust J Social Issues

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In the gerontological literature, the family has been characterised as either a party that has pushed the aged person into nursing homes or one which has assisted them to remain at home. But few studies have systematically examined the role the family plays in placing the older person in a nursing home. As part of a study that is reconstructing the pathway of 90 aged persons moving to nursing homes, this paper identifies the main actors in the institutionalisation decision, as well as the role the aged person, her family and health professionals play in decisions to obtain nursing home care.

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