Quality in Ageing and Older Adults: Volume 2 Issue 3

Editorial

Ron Iphofen

Approaches to improving quality in nursing and residential homes: Recent developments in Australia and their relevance to the UK

Helen Bartlett, Duncan Boldy

Concerns about quality and standards of care in the nursing and residential home sector have exercised policymakers, managers and practitioners in both Australia and the UK for…

Improving home care quality: An individual‐centred approach

Charles Patmore

This article presents evidence for important individual differences between older people concerning what they value as high quality service from home care. A case is made for…

Care of older people from a multi‐professional perspective: Learning on the web

Mona Bendz, Daga Joakimson, Eija Oinas

The European population has undergone important changes during past decades with increased life expectancy and a falling birth rate. The high proportion of older people and the…

Promoting mental health and wellbeing amongst housebound older people

Lesley Cotterill, Diane Taylor

In England health promotion has an important role to play in delivering the aims of the new health and social care modernisation programme. Two health promotion strategies evident…

The End of Ageing: The 2001 BBC Reith Lectures

Harry Gray