The Scottish Government

Age

Health concerns are important to everyone throughout their lives. With an ageing population, it is important that we understand older people's health needs and experiences. But it is equally important that we focus on health for children so they can learn how to maintain healthy habits into adulthood. Healthy living at all lifestages with an understanding of changing needs must be a priority for research and policy.

Scottish Executive

• Scoping Study of Older People in Rural Scotland (2003) See Chapter 6, Health & Social Care (2003)
• Older People in Scotland: Results From the First Year of the Scottish Household Survey (2001) See Chapter Four, Health & Social Care
• Family Support & Community Care: A Study of South Asian Older People (2000) This research explores the views of older South Asian people about their support needs in the context of a review of existing provision. Gaps between the needs of older people and their carers and the kind of support available are identified, and ways of bridging these gaps are suggested.
• Response to the Royal Commission on Long Term Care (2000) The SE response the Royal Commission
• Support at Home: Views of Older People about their Needs & Access to Services (1999) This study investigates needs and service provision from the perspective of people in the 75+ age group who are living in their own homes in Glasgow and Edinburgh.
• Support for Majority & Minority Ethnic Groups at Home - Older People's Perspectives (1999) This study compares needs and service provision from the perspectives of older people drawn from majority and minority ethnic (South Asian) in Glasgow and Edinburgh. The results of two studies provide insight into differences and similarities in relation to knowledge about services, access to services, experience of health care, and informal networks of support.
• Hospital Discharge for Frail Older People: A Literature Review with Practice Case Studies (1998) This study identified and examined literature relating to the discharge of frail older people and assessed the contribution of that literature to current practice.
• National Care Standards Care Homes for Older People
• Pathways to Welfare for Pakistani Elderly People in Glasgow (1996) This research explored the patterns of welfare and mutual care of Pakistani elderly people and their families in Glasgow, with particular reference to use or lack of use of social work services.

Joseph Rowntree Foundation

• Informal Care & Work after Fifty (2002) Looks at how decisions about employment are influenced by the desire or need to provide informal care.
• Piloting Choice & Control for Older People: An Evaluation (2001) Evaluates a 1999 Portsmouth Social Services Department (SSD) scheme which piloted new ways of delivering services to older people.
• Getting Older People's Views on Quality Home Care Services (2001) Explores older people's ideas about what a quality home care service should look like and how their views about this can be regularly heard.
• Meeting the Needs of Chinese Older People (2000) The study examined the caring needs of Chinese older people from a user's perspective and examined a number of aspects of life for the Chinese community which particularly affect older people.
• Developing a Preventive Approach with Older People (1999) This research looked at what authorities in England were doing in developing preventive strategies.