Quality in Ageing and Older Adults: Volume 15 Issue 3

Still working for love? Recognising skills and responsibilities of home-based care workers

Celia Briar, Elizabeth Liddell, Martin Tolich

– The purpose of this paper is to focus on care workers employed in clients’ own homes recognising the skills and responsibilities of home-based care workers.

Family-AiD: a family-centred assessment tool in young-onset dementia

Pamela Roach, John David Keady, Penny Bee

Standards of care and care pathways for younger people with dementia vary greatly, making clinical development and service planning challenging. Staff working in dementia services…

Life story resources in dementia care: a review

Jacqueline Kindell, Simon Burrow, Ray Wilkinson, John David Keady

Life story work has a relatively long tradition in the caring sciences and is recognised as an important component of dementia care and practice. However, to date, there has not…

Refining case management for dementia using insights from operations management

Bert Meijboom, Laurens Van den Bosch, René Schalk

Providers of healthcare services face increasing performance demands in terms of cost-efficiency as well as client centeredness. Dementia care is an illustrative example in this…

Age, social support and health among older Kuwaitis

Yagoub Y. Al-Kandari, Douglas E. Crews

– The purpose of this paper is to report data on social support elements and health status differences across three age groups of Kuwaiti elderly.

How can we assess the value of support for older people?

Fiona Poland