Housing, Care and Support: Volume 13 Issue 1

Growing together

Gary Lashko

Good understanding, mutual respect and shared values: interview with Jane Taylor and Debbie Brenner, former joint chief executives, Owl

Lynn Vickery

This article is based on an interview conducted with Jane Taylor and Debbie Brenner, former joint chief executives of Owl (now Dimensions (Owl)), a provider of support services to…

Capabilities and resilience among people using homeless services

Joan Smith

This article is based on a research study conducted for Crisis UK into capability and resilience among 87 people who used the Crisis Open Christmas Service (COC) in December 2006…

Housing an ageing population — the value of information and advice

Gemma Burgess

This paper analyses the value of information and advice for older people in making decisions about housing and care, drawing on an evaluation of FirstStop, a new national…

Will older home‐owners use equity release to improve the quality of their lives?

Rachel Terry, Richard Gibson

If ‘income‐poor’ older home‐owners could draw on their housing equity easily and with confidence, then they could afford practical help that would improve their quality of life…

User involvement in strategic commissioning

Stephanie Sexton

Service user involvement has been spoken and written about for many years in a variety of settings, and is generally considered a good thing. A number of elements of service user…

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