.... Umesh Gupta can be contacted at: umeshgupta@jklu.edu.in © Emerald Publishing Limited 2021 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Collaboration India Community building Age-friendly society Personalization Intergenerational cooperation Covid-19 has taken...

...; ^b0 score indicates least difficulty performing activities, 16 the most Loneliness Older people Social isolation Personalization Adult placement Community-based support Key to current social care policy both in the UK and across Western Europe is the personalisation of services...

... with persons with dementia. Research limitations/implications – The findings are based on a small cohort of participants, observational reports and descriptive accounts from family members and carers. Practical implications – The paper proposes ways in which simple hand-crafted textiles can be used...

... for practitioners to find ways of involving carers in decision making without compromising the rights to autonomy and choice on the part of the person cared for. Both those commissioning services and practitioners need to acknowledge that parent carers need assurances about the long-term viability and quality...

...Caroline Norrie; Jenny Weinstein; Ray Jones; Rick Hood; Sadiq Bhanbro Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to report on the introduction of individual personal budgets for older people and people with mental health problems in one local authority (LA) in 2011. Design/methodology/approach...

... and identifies that failure as the unavoidable result of methodological error. Design/methodology/approach – The paper guides the reader through the conceptual error in dementia service design and highlights the disconnect between clinical symptomatology and the lived experience of the person with dementia...