Housing, Care and Support: Volume 10 Issue 3

Mental health services: how are we doing?

Gary Lashko

Walking the tightrope: the balance between duty of care, human rights and capacity

Sue Baxter, Helen Carr

Support providers have a whole range of legal and professional responsibilities to those to whom they provide services, to their employees and to their co‐workers. However, these…

Achieving efficiencies in care and support services

Tristan Wood

Housing with support and the efficiency agenda ‐ a toolkit has been published by Tribal Consulting as an aid to organisations involved in care and support provision that are faced…

Mental health in later life, a neglected area of policy and research allocation: summary of the UK Inquiry into Mental Health in Later Life

Philip Hurst, Jane Minter

This article is a ‘taster’, and summarises the issues identified in the UK Inquiry report on Mental Health in Later Life. It looks at how the Inquiry undertook its work, how older…

The use of Talking Mats to improve communication and quality of care for people with dementia

Joan Murphy, Cindy Gray, Sylvia Cox

Enabling people with dementia to continue to communicate their views, needs and preferences as their condition progresses is essential for development of person‐centred services…

The hidden needs of long‐term hostel residents

Sarah Gorton

This paper will present some recent data collected by local authorities on their older homeless population, explore the nature of the needs of this population and put some…

Supported living through Supporting People: the experiences of people with learning disabilities

Rachel Fyson, Beth Tarleton, Linda Ward

This article reports the findings of research which examined the impact that the Supporting People programme has had on housing and support for adults with learning disabilities…