Robin Means
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3975702 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Robin Means |
| NOMBRES | Robin |
| APELLIDO | Means |
| FIRMA | MEANS R |
| AFILIACIONES | University of the West of England |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 33 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 133 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 32 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 5 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1982 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2018 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Inter-sectoral Transfer of the Food for Life Settings Framework in England
Organisational settings such as schools, workplaces and hospitals are well recognised as key environments for health promotion. Whilst there is extensive literature on specific types of settings, little empirical research has investigated the transfer of frameworks between sectors. This study analyses Food for Life, an England-wide healthy and sustainable food programme that evolved in schools and is being adapted for children's centres, universi…
Meeting the challenge of interdisciplinarity
This article reflects on the experience of a large interdisciplinary research team that included geographers in a study of older people's participation in community life in areas of rural Britain. The mechanisms used for facilitating interdisciplinary collaboration around the development of a collective conceptual framework and associated methodologies for investigating aspects of rural community inclusion in later life are outlined. Lessons rele…
Countryside Connections
The first project-based book in The New Dynamics of Ageing series offers a unique interdisciplinary perspective on older people’s role as assets in rural civic society. The authors examine the ways in which rural elders are connected to community, the contributions they make and the groups to which they belong.
Countryside Connections
Countryside connections
Countryside Connections
Countryside Connections
Communities of place and communities of interest? An exploration of their changing role in later life
Social gerontologists have long grappled with the meaning of ‘community’ to older people. This paper lies within this tradition and focuses on the extent to which the past emphasis upon communities of place needs to be rebalanced or rethought in the light of emerging evidence for the growing engagement of older people in communities of interest linked to friendships, enthusiasms and their increasing spending power. This theoretical paper highligh…
A Brave New World of Personalized Care? Historical Perspectives on Social Care and Older People in England
Social care policy for older people in England continues to generate extensive discussion around the need to break with the past and to deliver a personalized response to need. This article explores the extent to which this represents a complete break with the past by looking at four key reports from the past, namely the Rucker Report (1946 ) on the break up of the Poor Law, the Seebohm Report (1968 ) on the personal social services, the Griffith…
Conceptualizing Age-Friendly Communities
Sur le front politique et des lignes de conduite, l’intérêt a augmenté pour rendre les communautés plus « amies des ainés », cette tendance est restée constante depuis que l’Organisation mondiale de la Santé a lancé son projet « Réseau mondial des Villes-amies des aînés. » Nous conceptualisons les communautés amies des aînés en nous appuyons sur le cadre de l’OMS et l’application d’un point de vue écologique. Ainsi nous visons à rendre explicite …
Money ‘handling’, financial abuse and elderly people with dementia
The ageing of the elderly population will mean an increase in the numbers of people with dementia and the thrust of the community care reforms suggest that many of these will continue to live in mainstream and sheltered housing. This article draws upon two different research projects to explore one implication of these trends, namely the ‘money handling’ issues (pension collection, bill payments, etc.) raised for social services and in particular…
Safe as Houses? Ageing in Place and Vulnerable Older People in the UK
The UK is very similar to many other European, North American and Australasian countries in its emphasis on ‘ageing in place’. This article does not seek to challenge the importance of this for most older people but rather draws out the challenges and issues raised by older people who are vulnerable or in vulnerable housing situations. This is illustrated through drawing upon three separate studies which are on older homelessness, older people in…
Home or hell
Issues raised here are drawn from the findings of a housing investigation that explored harassment and abuse of older tenants in the private rented sector. The project examined older people's experiences and raised important links between health and housing. The article highlights financial abuse directed towards these older people and examines implications for professionals and agencies
They don't quite fit the way we organise our services’—results from a UK field study of marginalised groups and dementia care
The accessibility of dementia services to two groups of marginalised service users (people under 65 years of age and people from minority ethnic groups) was examined as part of a UK field study. In 61 interviews with a purposeful sample of professionals and paid carers in dementia care, the main issue in service access related to the small numbers of potential service users and their geographical dispersal. Other issues reflected those faced by p…
How can they tell?' A qualitative study of the views of younger people about their dementia and dementia care services
There is growing interest in eliciting the views of younger people with dementia (i.e. those under 65 years of age) within health and social care research. The often erroneous view that these individuals are not capable of expressing their views and experiences has now been seriously challenged. The present paper draws on the findings from 14 qualitative in-depth interviews with younger people with dementia conducted in the South-west of England,…
Responding to the Harassment and Abuse of Older People in the Private Rented Sector
Independent living, and hence active ageing, is seen by some governments as being supported through enabling and encouraging older people to live in mainstream housing. However, this emphasis upon ‘staying put’ and ‘ageing in place’ needs to recognise the major housing difficulties that are faced by some older people. This paper presents findings from an exploratory study, funded by Help the Aged, of the harassment and abuse of older people withi…
Rearranging the deckchairs on the Titanic of long-term care - is organizational integration the answer
Since 1997 the British government has actively promoted collaboration between health and social care services, culminating in proposals for fully integrated health and social care organizations -called Care Trusts - to address problems in co-ordinating services for older people. This paper draws on historical evidence to examine the origins and development of these difficulties. A consistent theme over the past 50 years has been the changing role…
Surviving at the margins
Older people who are homeless, or at risk of homelessness, have been the ‘forgotten homeless’ in policy debates and service provision. They tend to be less visible and less vocal than other groups, and low priority has been given to the impact of homelessness on their health and well‐being. Through the Older Homelessness Partnership Programme two national charities, The Housing Associations Charitable Trust and Help the Aged, funded seventeen inn…
Social work and older people with dementia
This paper looks at the potential contribution of both home improvement agencies (HIAs) and assistive technology to social work with older people with dementia. It presents some of the main findings of research funded by the Nuffield Foundation on how HIAs are helping to meet both the home improvement and home adaptations needs of such people. Two case studies are presented of such work in practice as well as a third example which looks at the po…
Policy convergence
English Australia and the UK have historically had very different systems of long-term care for older persons and others. Recent restructuring has led to interesting convergences of those systems - in large part, we argue, because of the limited set of policy levers available to reformers in both countries
Home, Independence and Community Care
This article begins by looking at past policy assumptions about the importance of home and independence to older people. It is shown that it has long been argued that older people should stay in their own homes as long as possible but that this was not backed up with domiciliary services because of concerns that this would enable families to push caring responsibilities onto the state. The second half of the article looks at present day assumptio…
From ‘special needs’ housing to independent living
How best to combine housing and support services for frail elderly people and for people with learning difficulties, mental health problems and physical disabilities is a long established debate in most industrialised countries. This debate occurs in the context of concerns to identify the extent of unmet need through such mechanisms as ‘special needs’ housing surveys. This article draws upon a ‘special needs’ housing survey. However, the emphasi…
Financial Management and Elderly People with Dementia in the U.K
This article explores a range of issues relating to financial management and elderly people with dementia. The law relating to personal finances for those who lack capacity is outlined and discussed with a stress upon its complexity and the key gaps in present coverage. The article goes on to outline findings from research on these issues carried out within a social services authority in the north of England. Professionals were found to have a wi…
Charging and Quasi‐Markets in Community Care
Social services authorities in the UK are increasingly involved in charging and fee collection activities with clients in receipt of community care services. This article explores the implications of these developments for elderly people with dementia. The starting point of the article is a critique of existing legal and administrative options for handling other people's money, including the difficulties and dilemmas raised for both paid and unpa…
Co-ordination, collaboration and health promotion
This article draws upon the evaluation of an alcohol education programme in South West England to develop a discussion about how to improve co-ordination and collaboration in health promotion between different professionals. The importance of collaboration is frequently recognized but research evidence suggests that it is very hard to achieve. Three main issues are addressed. First, the article considers how the national funders of regional progr…
How can they tell?' A qualitative study of the views of younger people about their dementia and dementia care services
There is growing interest in eliciting the views of younger people with dementia (i.e. those under 65 years of age) within health and social care research. The often erroneous view that these individuals are not capable of expressing their views and experiences has now been seriously challenged. The present paper draws on the findings from 14 qualitative in-depth interviews with younger people with dementia conducted in the South-west of England,…
Safe as Houses? Ageing in Place and Vulnerable Older People in the UK
The UK is very similar to many other European, North American and Australasian countries in its emphasis on ‘ageing in place’. This article does not seek to challenge the importance of this for most older people but rather draws out the challenges and issues raised by older people who are vulnerable or in vulnerable housing situations. This is illustrated through drawing upon three separate studies which are on older homelessness, older people in…
Older people in British housing studies
This paper refers to an increased interest in older people in British housing research and literature. It explains the factors behind this increased interest and illustrates why a gerontological perspective in housing studies is needed. Reference is made in particular to issues of accumulation through housing, to housing histories and to the meaning of the home. In addition to defining areas where a clearer understanding is required the paper ide…
Communities of place and communities of interest? An exploration of their changing role in later life
Social gerontologists have long grappled with the meaning of ‘community’ to older people. This paper lies within this tradition and focuses on the extent to which the past emphasis upon communities of place needs to be rebalanced or rethought in the light of emerging evidence for the growing engagement of older people in communities of interest linked to friendships, enthusiasms and their increasing spending power. This theoretical paper highligh…
A Brave New World of Personalized Care? Historical Perspectives on Social Care and Older People in England
Social care policy for older people in England continues to generate extensive discussion around the need to break with the past and to deliver a personalized response to need. This article explores the extent to which this represents a complete break with the past by looking at four key reports from the past, namely the Rucker Report (1946 ) on the break up of the Poor Law, the Seebohm Report (1968 ) on the personal social services, the Griffith…
They don't quite fit the way we organise our services’—results from a UK field study of marginalised groups and dementia care
The accessibility of dementia services to two groups of marginalised service users (people under 65 years of age and people from minority ethnic groups) was examined as part of a UK field study. In 61 interviews with a purposeful sample of professionals and paid carers in dementia care, the main issue in service access related to the small numbers of potential service users and their geographical dispersal. Other issues reflected those faced by p…
Policy convergence
English Australia and the UK have historically had very different systems of long-term care for older persons and others. Recent restructuring has led to interesting convergences of those systems - in large part, we argue, because of the limited set of policy levers available to reformers in both countries
Council Housing, Tenure Polarisation and Older People in Two Contrasting Localities
This article attempts to illustrate the importance of housing issues in old age and to argue for a more sophisticated view of older people than that achieved by much housing research. Tenure relationships in two contrasting localities are explored and it is shown that cruder models of social and tenurial polarisation need to be treated with care because of the tendency for aggregate data to hide important variations in relationships between tenur…
Implementation of Social Goals in Labour Market Policy
The research reported briefly in this article attempted to explore further the relationship between the implementation of social goals in employment policy, the operation of segmentation in the labour market, and the fate of members of so-called ‘ethnic minorities’ in the labour market. Previous research had suggested that social goals in labour market policy were very difficult to defend against the power of economic efficiency criteria, which s…
Money ‘handling’, financial abuse and elderly people with dementia
The ageing of the elderly population will mean an increase in the numbers of people with dementia and the thrust of the community care reforms suggest that many of these will continue to live in mainstream and sheltered housing. This article draws upon two different research projects to explore one implication of these trends, namely the ‘money handling’ issues (pension collection, bill payments, etc.) raised for social services and in particular…
Responding to the Harassment and Abuse of Older People in the Private Rented Sector
Independent living, and hence active ageing, is seen by some governments as being supported through enabling and encouraging older people to live in mainstream housing. However, this emphasis upon ‘staying put’ and ‘ageing in place’ needs to recognise the major housing difficulties that are faced by some older people. This paper presents findings from an exploratory study, funded by Help the Aged, of the harassment and abuse of older people withi…
Rearranging the deckchairs on the Titanic of long-term care - is organizational integration the answer
Since 1997 the British government has actively promoted collaboration between health and social care services, culminating in proposals for fully integrated health and social care organizations -called Care Trusts - to address problems in co-ordinating services for older people. This paper draws on historical evidence to examine the origins and development of these difficulties. A consistent theme over the past 50 years has been the changing role…
Home, Independence and Community Care
This article begins by looking at past policy assumptions about the importance of home and independence to older people. It is shown that it has long been argued that older people should stay in their own homes as long as possible but that this was not backed up with domiciliary services because of concerns that this would enable families to push caring responsibilities onto the state. The second half of the article looks at present day assumptio…
Financial Management and Elderly People with Dementia in the U.K
This article explores a range of issues relating to financial management and elderly people with dementia. The law relating to personal finances for those who lack capacity is outlined and discussed with a stress upon its complexity and the key gaps in present coverage. The article goes on to outline findings from research on these issues carried out within a social services authority in the north of England. Professionals were found to have a wi…
Charging and Quasi‐Markets in Community Care
Social services authorities in the UK are increasingly involved in charging and fee collection activities with clients in receipt of community care services. This article explores the implications of these developments for elderly people with dementia. The starting point of the article is a critique of existing legal and administrative options for handling other people's money, including the difficulties and dilemmas raised for both paid and unpa…
Community care, housing and older people
This paper outlines the growth of social care services for elderly people in Britain and the slow recognition that resources should be concentrated upon ‘care at home’ rather than in institutions. It then goes on to provide a critical commentary on the proposed community care changes with their emphasis upon contracting out services. The importance of housing to older people is then discussed and this is followed by a review of both past developm…
Implementing a Pluralistic Approach to Evaluation in Health Education
This article reflects upon why a pluralistic evaluation approach was adopted by the research team concerned with the evaluation of a regional alcohol education programme. The article describes why such an approach was adopted and then discusses some of the advantages and disadvantages that have been encountered. It is argued that such an approach enables an evaluation team to map and contextualise the differential accounts about progress and bloc…
Some Ethical and Practical Problems in the Construction of Policy Recommendations from Implementation Research
This article will consider some of the ethical and practical problems associated with the construction of policy recommendations from what are increasingly referred to as implementation studies. Such studies are a form of policy research although there is considerable disagreement over whether it is possible to distinguish an activity called policy making (i.e. the setting up of goals) from an activity called implementation (i.e. the processes re…
Social work and older people with dementia
This paper looks at the potential contribution of both home improvement agencies (HIAs) and assistive technology to social work with older people with dementia. It presents some of the main findings of research funded by the Nuffield Foundation on how HIAs are helping to meet both the home improvement and home adaptations needs of such people. Two case studies are presented of such work in practice as well as a third example which looks at the po…
From ‘special needs’ housing to independent living
How best to combine housing and support services for frail elderly people and for people with learning difficulties, mental health problems and physical disabilities is a long established debate in most industrialised countries. This debate occurs in the context of concerns to identify the extent of unmet need through such mechanisms as ‘special needs’ housing surveys. This article draws upon a ‘special needs’ housing survey. However, the emphasi…
Allocating Council Housing to Older People
Accommodation outcomes in old age
From Public Assistance Institutions to ‘Sunshine Hotels’
This article traces the development of residential care for elderly people in the period 1939 to 1948. It begins by looking at the nature of such institutions in the period just prior to the Second World War and then discusses the complex impact of war upon such provision. Particular attention is paid to how evacuation hostels, run by local authorities and voluntary organisations, changed notions about the role of the state in the care of elderly…
Some Ethical and Practical Problems in the Construction of Policy Recommendations from Implementation Research
This article will consider some of the ethical and practical problems associated with the construction of policy recommendations from what are increasingly referred to as implementation studies. Such studies are a form of policy research although there is considerable disagreement over whether it is possible to distinguish an activity called policy making (i.e. the setting up of goals) from an activity called implementation (i.e. the processes re…
From Public Assistance Institutions to ‘Sunshine Hotels’
This article traces the development of residential care for elderly people in the period 1939 to 1948. It begins by looking at the nature of such institutions in the period just prior to the Second World War and then discusses the complex impact of war upon such provision. Particular attention is paid to how evacuation hostels, run by local authorities and voluntary organisations, changed notions about the role of the state in the care of elderly…
Implementation of Social Goals in Labour Market Policy
The research reported briefly in this article attempted to explore further the relationship between the implementation of social goals in employment policy, the operation of segmentation in the labour market, and the fate of members of so-called ‘ethnic minorities’ in the labour market. Previous research had suggested that social goals in labour market policy were very difficult to defend against the power of economic efficiency criteria, which s…
Older people in British housing studies
This paper refers to an increased interest in older people in British housing research and literature. It explains the factors behind this increased interest and illustrates why a gerontological perspective in housing studies is needed. Reference is made in particular to issues of accumulation through housing, to housing histories and to the meaning of the home. In addition to defining areas where a clearer understanding is required the paper ide…
Accommodation outcomes in old age
Public Policy and Older People-Where Are We Going
During much of the 1960s and 1970s, housing and welfare provision for older people were part of the cinderella services (Means and Smith, 1985) that the majority of both practitioners and social scientists were happy to leave to the remit of a relatively small group of dedicated specialists. However, the 1980s have seen an important shift to that, as Johnson (1985), remarked, 'old age is now in fashion'. The six books under review represent one m…
Council Housing, Tenure Polarisation and Older People in Two Contrasting Localities
This article attempts to illustrate the importance of housing issues in old age and to argue for a more sophisticated view of older people than that achieved by much housing research. Tenure relationships in two contrasting localities are explored and it is shown that cruder models of social and tenurial polarisation need to be treated with care because of the tendency for aggregate data to hide important variations in relationships between tenur…
Implementing a Pluralistic Approach to Evaluation in Health Education
This article reflects upon why a pluralistic evaluation approach was adopted by the research team concerned with the evaluation of a regional alcohol education programme. The article describes why such an approach was adopted and then discusses some of the advantages and disadvantages that have been encountered. It is argued that such an approach enables an evaluation team to map and contextualise the differential accounts about progress and bloc…
Housing
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Allocating Council Housing to Older People
Co-ordination, collaboration and health promotion
This article draws upon the evaluation of an alcohol education programme in South West England to develop a discussion about how to improve co-ordination and collaboration in health promotion between different professionals. The importance of collaboration is frequently recognized but research evidence suggests that it is very hard to achieve. Three main issues are addressed. First, the article considers how the national funders of regional progr…
Community care, housing and older people
This paper outlines the growth of social care services for elderly people in Britain and the slow recognition that resources should be concentrated upon ‘care at home’ rather than in institutions. It then goes on to provide a critical commentary on the proposed community care changes with their emphasis upon contracting out services. The importance of housing to older people is then discussed and this is followed by a review of both past developm…
From ‘special needs’ housing to independent living
How best to combine housing and support services for frail elderly people and for people with learning difficulties, mental health problems and physical disabilities is a long established debate in most industrialised countries. This debate occurs in the context of concerns to identify the extent of unmet need through such mechanisms as ‘special needs’ housing surveys. This article draws upon a ‘special needs’ housing survey. However, the emphasi…
Financial Management and Elderly People with Dementia in the U.K
This article explores a range of issues relating to financial management and elderly people with dementia. The law relating to personal finances for those who lack capacity is outlined and discussed with a stress upon its complexity and the key gaps in present coverage. The article goes on to outline findings from research on these issues carried out within a social services authority in the north of England. Professionals were found to have a wi…
Charging and Quasi‐Markets in Community Care
Social services authorities in the UK are increasingly involved in charging and fee collection activities with clients in receipt of community care services. This article explores the implications of these developments for elderly people with dementia. The starting point of the article is a critique of existing legal and administrative options for handling other people's money, including the difficulties and dilemmas raised for both paid and unpa…
Home, Independence and Community Care
This article begins by looking at past policy assumptions about the importance of home and independence to older people. It is shown that it has long been argued that older people should stay in their own homes as long as possible but that this was not backed up with domiciliary services because of concerns that this would enable families to push caring responsibilities onto the state. The second half of the article looks at present day assumptio…
Policy convergence
English Australia and the UK have historically had very different systems of long-term care for older persons and others. Recent restructuring has led to interesting convergences of those systems - in large part, we argue, because of the limited set of policy levers available to reformers in both countries
Social work and older people with dementia
This paper looks at the potential contribution of both home improvement agencies (HIAs) and assistive technology to social work with older people with dementia. It presents some of the main findings of research funded by the Nuffield Foundation on how HIAs are helping to meet both the home improvement and home adaptations needs of such people. Two case studies are presented of such work in practice as well as a third example which looks at the po…
Surviving at the margins
Older people who are homeless, or at risk of homelessness, have been the ‘forgotten homeless’ in policy debates and service provision. They tend to be less visible and less vocal than other groups, and low priority has been given to the impact of homelessness on their health and well‐being. Through the Older Homelessness Partnership Programme two national charities, The Housing Associations Charitable Trust and Help the Aged, funded seventeen inn…
Home or hell
Issues raised here are drawn from the findings of a housing investigation that explored harassment and abuse of older tenants in the private rented sector. The project examined older people's experiences and raised important links between health and housing. The article highlights financial abuse directed towards these older people and examines implications for professionals and agencies
They don't quite fit the way we organise our services’—results from a UK field study of marginalised groups and dementia care
The accessibility of dementia services to two groups of marginalised service users (people under 65 years of age and people from minority ethnic groups) was examined as part of a UK field study. In 61 interviews with a purposeful sample of professionals and paid carers in dementia care, the main issue in service access related to the small numbers of potential service users and their geographical dispersal. Other issues reflected those faced by p…
How can they tell?' A qualitative study of the views of younger people about their dementia and dementia care services
There is growing interest in eliciting the views of younger people with dementia (i.e. those under 65 years of age) within health and social care research. The often erroneous view that these individuals are not capable of expressing their views and experiences has now been seriously challenged. The present paper draws on the findings from 14 qualitative in-depth interviews with younger people with dementia conducted in the South-west of England,…
Responding to the Harassment and Abuse of Older People in the Private Rented Sector
Independent living, and hence active ageing, is seen by some governments as being supported through enabling and encouraging older people to live in mainstream housing. However, this emphasis upon ‘staying put’ and ‘ageing in place’ needs to recognise the major housing difficulties that are faced by some older people. This paper presents findings from an exploratory study, funded by Help the Aged, of the harassment and abuse of older people withi…
Rearranging the deckchairs on the Titanic of long-term care - is organizational integration the answer
Since 1997 the British government has actively promoted collaboration between health and social care services, culminating in proposals for fully integrated health and social care organizations -called Care Trusts - to address problems in co-ordinating services for older people. This paper draws on historical evidence to examine the origins and development of these difficulties. A consistent theme over the past 50 years has been the changing role…
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