Quality in Ageing and Older Adults: Volume 21 Issue 3

Editorial

Fiona Poland

The application of social innovation as it relates to older people and the implications for future policymaking: a scoping review

Holly Louise Crossen-White, Ann Hemingway, Adele Ladkin

Social innovation has received increasing attention in recent decades (Agostini et al., 2017). This study aims to consider how the concept has been applied to the issue of ageing…

Public spending on adult social care and delayed transfers of care in England

Jose Iparraguirre

This paper aims to whether current public expenditure on adult social care services might be associated with the number of delayed days of care attributable to the social care…

Couples’ experiences of using DemPower in everyday life

Therése Bielsten, John Keady, Agneta Kullberg, Reena Lasrado, Ingrid Hellström

Interventions aimed at couples where one partner has dementia are often targeting burden, depression and cognitive function and do not focus on relationship and interpersonal…

Narrative inquiry on case studies of crisis in dementia

Alessandro Bosco, Justine Schneider, Donna Maria Coleston-Shields, Martin Orrell

This study aims to explore the coping styles that can be inferred from the discourse of dyads with dementia, and how these appear to impact on care management.

Development and preliminary testing of a framework for quantifying local service provision for people with dementia

Jane Hughes, Saima Ahmed, Paul Clarkson, Sue Davies, Karen Stewart, David Challis

It was hypothesised that there were variations in health and social care services available for older people with dementia and their carers, and that measurement of this between…