... with the centre. Sandra Downes can be contacted at: sandra.downes@alzheimers.org.au © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2013 Alzheimer's Dementia Eden Elders Health care Elder care Hawthorn House is a respite centre in Albany, in the Great Southern region of Western Australia...

... story work Biographical approaches Dementia Older adult Person centred care Mental health Mental health services Elder care In the older adult community service in which we worked, life story work (LSW) was strongly advocated. Many staff in the dementia unit commented on how beneficial...

... Complex needs Older people Seamless support Interventions Elder care Elderly people Care coordination is an established policy concern in developed countries (Allen et al., 2004) and is seen as critical to the delivery of effective support to individuals with complex health...

... and massage used for “relaxing”: Older people Complementary and alternative medicine Well‐being Decision making Elder care United Kingdom Alternative medicine The proportion of the UK population aged over 65 years rose from 15 per cent in 1984 to 16 per cent in 2009 and is projected...

... Group Publishing Limited 2012 Older people Hospital visiting Experience Service user perspectives Participatory research United Kingdom Elder care Social care The idea for this research arose from one of our member's personal experience of hospital visiting. The topic is little...

... and friends. Andrea Kenkmann can be contacted at: a.kenkmann@uea.ac.uk © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 Older people Residential care Qualitative research Food provision Homes for the aged Food services United Kingdom Elder care Food service Residential care may...

... Mountainlands AAA between January 1, 2006 and December 31, 2007. The research questions are: Home and community based services Older adults Predictors of use Home care Elder care United States of America 1. State‐funded Alternatives. 2. The Waiver. 3. The IIIB services...

... of trust (Daichman, 2005). This definition also does not include abuse by strangers or self‐neglect. Elder abuse Elder care Support services Older people Peer‐research Traditionally policy has developed from a top down approach, guided by policy makers and practitioners' perspectives...

... reported that instrument use contributed to the identification of staff training needs. Originality/value Evidence for functional assessment scale effectiveness is equivocal and little has been published on the experience of scale use by a range of elder care staff. This experience forms this study's...

... arrangements are an important aspect of supported housing, as well as the independence it offers. Consideration needs to be given to access to services in locating new schemes. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 Community care Elder care Home care services Housing for the elderly Supported...