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Editorial Seventy per cent of seek quality services at the cheapest price. Kate Rees’ care homes provide story is the flip side of the coin, witnessing the care good or excellent that her mother receives in a nursing home. services; 1.3 million We then lead into articles from Alex Fox, who praises carers care for over the role and contribution of informal carers, and 50 hours per week; Caroline Bernard and Anna Passingham who reveal an 80% of carers suffer unco-ordinated approach to local authority charging from ill health; the policies that is forcing people on low incomes to rely predicted growth of more on informal care, or no care at all. Derek W ells’ Britain’s pensioners cartoon is a cynical commentary on this. by 2031 is from Richard Humphries describes his career in My W ork, 11.6 million to and concludes that not much has changed since his 15.3 million; and days as a social worker in the 1970s. A rather approximately 700,000 people have some form of frightening conclusion, and so what of the future and dementia. These are just a few of the facts and figures the new ways of working that can, perhaps, solve our inside this issue. Some will surprise you, most are conundrum? Well, bolstering the personalisation startling, but all form part of the care conundrum agenda, nowadays we hear much of self-care and facing our society – how to give the best possible care individual budgets that aim to put the ‘customer’ with fewer carers and less money per head of a firmly in charge of their care destiny. To this end, we population that is living longer. welcome Oliver Mills and Fiona Smith who describe Across nine articles we have brought together as their respective local authorities’ work in these new many different perspectives as possible that examine policy areas. We also welcome Toby Williamson who how care is commissioned, funded, charged and describes the challenge posed by dementia and the delivered across a variety of settings. Deborah Klée sets initiatives that are helping people to improve their lives the scene by comprehensively capturing the various in practical ways. health and social care commissioning processes for our And looking to the future still, 2009 is just around the ‘Explaining about …’ feature. We have two contributors corner. So before I run out of space on this page, I wish from the care-home perspective: Ann Mackay presents all our readers and my editorial board and Pavilion the challenges faced by her sector as commissioners colleagues, a very happy festive season. Take care. Irene Kohler Director, Westminster Advocacy Service for Senior Editorial Board Residents Gary Martin Deputy Chief Executive, Action on Elder Abuse Caroline Bernard Policy and Communications Manager, Claudine McCreadie Counsel and Care Consultant and former Research Fellow, Institute of Gerontology, King’s College London Nick Bishop Consultant Rebecca Neno Senior Lecturer in Nursing and Non Medical Jenny Desoutter Prescribing, University of Lincoln Freelance Consultant Carolyn Robertson Dyllis Faife Research and Development Manager, Active Age Unit, Freelance Consultant Age Concern England Kalyani Gandhi Fiona Thomas Independent Consultant: Age and Ethnicity Editor, Working with Older People Karen Gerty Carol Wardle MIND in Brighton and Hove Commercial Manager, Centre for Sheltered Housing Eleanor Gibson Studies Director, Advocacy for Older People in Greenwich Toby Williamson Deborah Klée Associate Head of Service Improvement and Workforce Independent Consultant Development, Mental Health Foundation Working with Older People December 2008 Volume 12 Issue 4 © Pavilion Journals (Brighton) Ltd http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Working with Older People Emerald Publishing

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Seventy per cent of seek quality services at the cheapest price. Kate Rees’ care homes provide story is the flip side of the coin, witnessing the care good or excellent that her mother receives in a nursing home. services; 1.3 million We then lead into articles from Alex Fox, who praises carers care for over the role and contribution of informal carers, and 50 hours per week; Caroline Bernard and Anna Passingham who reveal an 80% of carers suffer unco-ordinated approach to local authority charging from ill health; the policies that is forcing people on low incomes to rely predicted growth of more on informal care, or no care at all. Derek W ells’ Britain’s pensioners cartoon is a cynical commentary on this. by 2031 is from Richard Humphries describes his career in My W ork, 11.6 million to and concludes that not much has changed since his 15.3 million; and days as a social worker in the 1970s. A rather approximately 700,000 people have some form of frightening conclusion, and so what of the future and dementia. These are just a few of the facts and figures the new ways of working that can, perhaps, solve our inside this issue. Some will surprise you, most are conundrum? Well, bolstering the personalisation startling, but all form part of the care conundrum agenda, nowadays we hear much of self-care and facing our society – how to give the best possible care individual budgets that aim to put the ‘customer’ with fewer carers and less money per head of a firmly in charge of their care destiny. To this end, we population that is living longer. welcome Oliver Mills and Fiona Smith who describe Across nine articles we have brought together as their respective local authorities’ work in these new many different perspectives as possible that examine policy areas. We also welcome Toby Williamson who how care is commissioned, funded, charged and describes the challenge posed by dementia and the delivered across a variety of settings. Deborah Klée sets initiatives that are helping people to improve their lives the scene by comprehensively capturing the various in practical ways. health and social care commissioning processes for our And looking to the future still, 2009 is just around the ‘Explaining about …’ feature. We have two contributors corner. So before I run out of space on this page, I wish from the care-home perspective: Ann Mackay presents all our readers and my editorial board and Pavilion the challenges faced by her sector as commissioners colleagues, a very happy festive season. Take care. Irene Kohler Director, Westminster Advocacy Service for Senior Editorial Board Residents Gary Martin Deputy Chief Executive, Action on Elder Abuse Caroline Bernard Policy and Communications Manager, Claudine McCreadie Counsel and Care Consultant and former Research Fellow, Institute of Gerontology, King’s College London Nick Bishop Consultant Rebecca Neno Senior Lecturer in Nursing and Non Medical Jenny Desoutter Prescribing, University of Lincoln Freelance Consultant Carolyn Robertson Dyllis Faife Research and Development Manager, Active Age Unit, Freelance Consultant Age Concern England Kalyani Gandhi Fiona Thomas Independent Consultant: Age and Ethnicity Editor, Working with Older People Karen Gerty Carol Wardle MIND in Brighton and Hove Commercial Manager, Centre for Sheltered Housing Eleanor Gibson Studies Director, Advocacy for Older People in Greenwich Toby Williamson Deborah Klée Associate Head of Service Improvement and Workforce Independent Consultant Development, Mental Health Foundation Working with Older People December 2008 Volume 12 Issue 4 © Pavilion Journals (Brighton) Ltd

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