Karen West
Biographic Data
| ID | 198917 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Karen West |
| GIVEN NAMES | Karen |
| FAMILY NAME | West |
| SIGNATURE | WEST K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Aston University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9071-8002 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 140 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Cohousing and the role of intermediaries in later life transitions
Mutual support among residents in collaborative housing for older people presents an alternative care model to family or formal social care provided in individuals’ homes or specialised care facilities. This is particularly the case in cohousing, where residents commit to mutual support and exercise autonomy through self-governance. Cohousing also supports the ageing processes by fostering greater wellbeing and significantly lessening social isol…
I Never Thought I’d See the Day That I Would Be Doing Things on Zoom”: Reimagining Day Care for Older People and Unpaid Carers in the Context of Covid‐19
This paper considers the role of collective forms of day care for older people and their carers during the enforced closure of services in 2020 due to COVID‐19. The study provides a unique opportunity to examine how the sector adapted to these unprecedented times. The paper draws on qualitative data collected from 8 case studies conducted in England, during which 120 interviews were held with older people, their carers, staff, and managers of ser…
A theoretical conceptualisation of connection to culture in Australian First Peoples children
Connection to culture in Australian First Peoples children is an important social determinant of health in child development and wellbeing. The current study draws upon the collective knowledge of Australian First Peoples Elders and community leaders to collaboratively develop the first theoretical conceptualisation of connection to culture in Australian First Peoples children. Through participatory action research, we integrated both Western and…
Reimagined day care for older people - supporting older people and caregivers to age in place
There is a widespread view amongst policy makers, as well as some senior managers and commissioners in local authorities, that collective forms of day care for older people are outdated and not aligned with wider policy ambitions. However, there is also growing recognition, amongst advocacy organisations such as Carers UK and Age UK, that many older people and their caregivers would welcome the opportunity to attend collective day care services, …
Toward a feminist housing commons? Conceptualising care - (as) - work in collaborative housing
This article conceptualizes care-(as)-work in collaborative housing and addresses current debates on the potential of cohousing to embody a feminist commons. A focus on purpose-built cohousing projects in the UK enables us to focus on the values present in the initial phases of collective design and on the ongoing negotiations and mediation that take place through social interactions, resident-led self-management, and formal and informal mutual s…
Collaborative housing communities through the Covid-19 pandemic: Rethinking governance and mutuality
The national lockdown in response to the COVID-19 pandemic has revealed the prevalence and importance of informal mutual support in neighbourhoods and social networks. Mutual support structures and functions are strong in collaborative housing, in which people often intentionally form resident communities to enhance support practices. Using qualitative methods, this article examines how lockdown restrictions have impacted on practices of mutual s…
Diarised Reflections on Covid-19 and Bereavement: Disruptions and Affordances
COVID-19 lockdown and social distancing measures have restricted funerals and memorial events and have limited the face-to-face social networks that grieving people might normally be able to draw upon for emotional support. However, while there is considerable expert informed speculation about the impacts of grief and “COVID bereavement”, detailed accounts of experiences of bereavement and bereavement support during the pandemic have the potentia…
Preventing Drift through Continued Co-Design with a First Nations Community: Refining the Prototype of a Tiered Fasd Assessment
As part of the broader Yapatjarrathati project, 47 remote health providers and community members attended a two-day workshop presenting a prototype of a culturally-safe, tiered neurodevelopmental assessment that can identify fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) in primary healthcare. The workshop provided a forum for broad community feedback on the tiered assessment process, which was initially co-designed with a smaller number of key First Nat…
Interdependence, commitment, learning and love: The case of the United Kingdom's first older women's co-housing community
Housing options for older people in the United Kingdom (UK) have been rather limited to remaining living ‘independently’ in one's own home and some variant of institutionally provided, pre-established and age-exclusive housing such as retirement communities, extra-care or sheltered housing. However, interest in alternative forms of housing and living which align more closely with the expectations of those currently entering later life is steadily…
Austerity in a disadvantaged West Midlands neighbourhood: Everyday experiences of families and family support professionals
This article examines everyday effects of austerity in Kingshurst – a disadvantaged urban neighbourhood in the West Midlands. It draws on qualitative data gathered from local families with children, and public and third sector professionals working in the area in family support services. While some of the issues raised are common to other disadvantaged communities across the UK, we recognise that austerity is experienced in specific socio-spatial…
Do the Welsh have it? Evaluating a bereavement support service supporting people bereaved by dementia
Accumulating evidence suggests that a dementia diagnosis, for many, triggers feelings of grief, and often marks the first of many losses that will be experienced by both the person who has received the diagnosis and their loved ones, as the disease progresses. Previous research has also revealed that carers who report higher levels of pre-death grief are at greater risk of complicated grief after their loved one has died. Despite this evidence, a…
Direct Payments for Older Adults in an Age of Austerity
Direct payments are a form of personalisation in which service users take full control of the organisation and management of their own care. This is considered to be a method that maximises autonomy choice and control. This article sets out findings from a study commissioned in 2016 by a local authority (LA) in England to explore older people’s views of direct payments (DPs) for social care. Semi-structured interviews were undertaken with older p…
Towards Critical Intersections of Ageing, Housing and Well-Being
Across the life course, far-reaching socio-demographic and health related transformations are influencing the meaning of home in the UK. The collection presented in this Special Issue of Home Futures critically interjects into the ‘where and when’ of dwelling during the process of ageing with key concepts explored within this introductory article. It argues that, change is seen through the disruption of conventional ideas of ageing ‘at home’, tra…
Enjoying the third age! Discourse, identity and liminality in extra-care communities
Extra-care housing has been an important and growing element of housing and care for older people in the United Kingdom since the 1990s. Previous studies have examined specific features and programmes within extra-care locations, but few have studied how residents negotiate social life and identity. Those that have, have noted that while extra care brings many health-related and social benefits, extra-care communities can also be difficult affect…
Making it real or sustaining a fantasy? Personal budgets for older people
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the current policy of extending personal budgets to older people. Design/methodology/approach In developing this explanation, the paper draws upon a species of de-centred, post-foundationalist theory which draws attention to the way in which certain narratives can sustain a longing for the implementation of policies that are ultimately unachievable. The paper also draws upon original data from an ev…
The possibilities and limits of political contestation in times of ‘urban austerity’
This paper seeks to provide a conceptual framework in which to examine the social practices of contemporary austerity programmes in urban areas, including how these relate to different conceptions of crisis. Of current theoretical interest is the apparent ease with which these austerity measures have been accepted by urban governing agents. In order to advance these understandings we follow the recent post-structuralist discourse theory ‘logics’ …
Death talk’, ‘loss talk’ and identification in the process of ageing
In this paper, we examine the injunction issued by the prominent politician, broadcaster and older people's advocate, Baroness Joan Bakewell, to engage in ‘death talk’. We see positive ethical potential in this injunction, insofar as it serves as a call to confront more directly the prospects of death and dying, thereby releasing creative energies with which to change our outlook on life and ageing more generally. However, when set against a cult…
Välfärdsfantasier: Personalisering av offentlig service i Storbritannien
The article shows how personalisation in the UK has become part of a particular public service reform trajectory, in which it is argued that the threat of an ageing population makes it imperative to transform public services if the welfare state is not to collapse the welfare state. Personalisation is also the means by which it is thought that public service users can be empowered to make individual choices. The article describes the concrete eme…
Logics of marginalisation in health and social care reform: Integration, choice, and provider-blind provision
The period 2010–2013 was a time of far-reaching structural reforms of the National Health Service in England. Of particular interest in this paper is the way in which radical critiques of the reform process were marginalised by pragmatic concerns about how to maintain the market-competition thrust of the reforms while avoiding potential fragmentation. We draw on the Essex school of political discourse theory and develop a ‘nodal’ analytical frame…
Governing narratives. Symbolic politics and policy change , by Hugh T. Miller, Tuscaloosa
The grip of personalization in adult social care: Between managerial domination and fantasy
This paper examines the ‘ideological grip’ of personalization. It does so empirically, tracking the trajectory of personalization through austerity budgeting in one English local authority. In this case, personalization continued to signify hope and liberation even though the most draconian cuts in the Council’s history effectively rendered personalization a practical impossibility. This requires critical theorization. Two bodies of theory are in…
Articulating discursive and materialist conceptions of practice in the logics approach to critical policy analysis
In this article it is argued that while Glynos and Howarth's logics of critical explanation (LCE) offers an important and promising contribution to critical policy analysis, it, along with other approaches that focus on the meaning of social action, faces a growing challenge in the form of a so-called new materialist turn in social and political theory. The article argues that there is much to be gained for the logics approach in paying closer at…
What Is the Public Value of Government Action? Towards a (New) Pragmatic Approach to Values Questions in Public Endeavours
There has been a resurgence of interest in values in recent public administration research, based on two distinct arguments. For different reasons, neither approach is likely to secure a robust normative basis for public endeavours. These reasons are assessed, using an alternative body of theory rooted in contemporary social theory that we term, ‘new pragmatism’. New pragmatic ideas are deployed to critique the divorce of values from facts; the a…
What Do Public Values Mean for Public Action: Putting Public Values in Their Plural Place
Public values are moving from a research concern to policy discourse and management practice. There are, though, different readings of what public values actually mean. Reflection suggests two distinct strands of thinking: a generative strand that sees public value emerging from processes of public debate; and an institutional interpretation that views public values as the attributes of government producers. Neither perspective seems to offer a p…
The Comparative Study of Local Government and Politics: Overview and Synthesis ‐ Edited by Harald Baldersheim and Hellmut Wollmann
What Is the Public Value of Government Action? Towards a (New) Pragmatic Approach to Values Questions in Public Endeavours
There has been a resurgence of interest in values in recent public administration research, based on two distinct arguments. For different reasons, neither approach is likely to secure a robust normative basis for public endeavours. These reasons are assessed, using an alternative body of theory rooted in contemporary social theory that we term, ‘new pragmatism’. New pragmatic ideas are deployed to critique the divorce of values from facts; the a…
What Do Public Values Mean for Public Action: Putting Public Values in Their Plural Place
Public values are moving from a research concern to policy discourse and management practice. There are, though, different readings of what public values actually mean. Reflection suggests two distinct strands of thinking: a generative strand that sees public value emerging from processes of public debate; and an institutional interpretation that views public values as the attributes of government producers. Neither perspective seems to offer a p…
The possibilities and limits of political contestation in times of ‘urban austerity’
This paper seeks to provide a conceptual framework in which to examine the social practices of contemporary austerity programmes in urban areas, including how these relate to different conceptions of crisis. Of current theoretical interest is the apparent ease with which these austerity measures have been accepted by urban governing agents. In order to advance these understandings we follow the recent post-structuralist discourse theory ‘logics’ …
The grip of personalization in adult social care: Between managerial domination and fantasy
This paper examines the ‘ideological grip’ of personalization. It does so empirically, tracking the trajectory of personalization through austerity budgeting in one English local authority. In this case, personalization continued to signify hope and liberation even though the most draconian cuts in the Council’s history effectively rendered personalization a practical impossibility. This requires critical theorization. Two bodies of theory are in…
Articulating discursive and materialist conceptions of practice in the logics approach to critical policy analysis
In this article it is argued that while Glynos and Howarth's logics of critical explanation (LCE) offers an important and promising contribution to critical policy analysis, it, along with other approaches that focus on the meaning of social action, faces a growing challenge in the form of a so-called new materialist turn in social and political theory. The article argues that there is much to be gained for the logics approach in paying closer at…
Logics of marginalisation in health and social care reform: Integration, choice, and provider-blind provision
The period 2010–2013 was a time of far-reaching structural reforms of the National Health Service in England. Of particular interest in this paper is the way in which radical critiques of the reform process were marginalised by pragmatic concerns about how to maintain the market-competition thrust of the reforms while avoiding potential fragmentation. We draw on the Essex school of political discourse theory and develop a ‘nodal’ analytical frame…
Toward a feminist housing commons? Conceptualising care - (as) - work in collaborative housing
This article conceptualizes care-(as)-work in collaborative housing and addresses current debates on the potential of cohousing to embody a feminist commons. A focus on purpose-built cohousing projects in the UK enables us to focus on the values present in the initial phases of collective design and on the ongoing negotiations and mediation that take place through social interactions, resident-led self-management, and formal and informal mutual s…
Business Privilege and the Strategic Planning Agenda of the Greater London Authority
The establishment of the Greater London Authority (GLA) in 2000 brought a new form of politics to London and new powers to formulate strategic policy. Through an investigation of the access of business interests in the formulation of London's strategic agenda, this article illuminates one aspect of the pressures on city government. It uses the urban regime approach as a framework for analysing the co-operation between the Mayor and business inter…
Interdependence, commitment, learning and love: The case of the United Kingdom's first older women's co-housing community
Housing options for older people in the United Kingdom (UK) have been rather limited to remaining living ‘independently’ in one's own home and some variant of institutionally provided, pre-established and age-exclusive housing such as retirement communities, extra-care or sheltered housing. However, interest in alternative forms of housing and living which align more closely with the expectations of those currently entering later life is steadily…
Enjoying the third age! Discourse, identity and liminality in extra-care communities
Extra-care housing has been an important and growing element of housing and care for older people in the United Kingdom since the 1990s. Previous studies have examined specific features and programmes within extra-care locations, but few have studied how residents negotiate social life and identity. Those that have, have noted that while extra care brings many health-related and social benefits, extra-care communities can also be difficult affect…
The Greater London Authority: Problems of Strategy Integration
English The Act that established the Greater London Authority (GLA) incorporated many of New Labour’s aspirations for modern governance. Among those aspirations was the notion of policy integration, or ‘joining up’. The Mayor of Greater London was required to develop a number of strategies, broadly in the planning and environmental policy domains, and to ensure that those strategies meshed into a coherent overall strategy for promoting London’s e…
Austerity in a disadvantaged West Midlands neighbourhood: Everyday experiences of families and family support professionals
This article examines everyday effects of austerity in Kingshurst – a disadvantaged urban neighbourhood in the West Midlands. It draws on qualitative data gathered from local families with children, and public and third sector professionals working in the area in family support services. While some of the issues raised are common to other disadvantaged communities across the UK, we recognise that austerity is experienced in specific socio-spatial…
Death talk’, ‘loss talk’ and identification in the process of ageing
In this paper, we examine the injunction issued by the prominent politician, broadcaster and older people's advocate, Baroness Joan Bakewell, to engage in ‘death talk’. We see positive ethical potential in this injunction, insofar as it serves as a call to confront more directly the prospects of death and dying, thereby releasing creative energies with which to change our outlook on life and ageing more generally. However, when set against a cult…
Is the French Model Giving Way to a New 'Logic of Appropriateness'? Lessons from Urban Waste Management
Processes of European integration and growing consumer scrutiny of public services have served to place the spotlight on the traditional French model of public/private interaction in the urban services domain. This article discusses recent debates within France of the institutionalised approach to local public/private partnership, and presents case study evidence from three urban agglomerations of a possible divergence from this approach. Drawing…
I Never Thought I’d See the Day That I Would Be Doing Things on Zoom”: Reimagining Day Care for Older People and Unpaid Carers in the Context of Covid‐19
This paper considers the role of collective forms of day care for older people and their carers during the enforced closure of services in 2020 due to COVID‐19. The study provides a unique opportunity to examine how the sector adapted to these unprecedented times. The paper draws on qualitative data collected from 8 case studies conducted in England, during which 120 interviews were held with older people, their carers, staff, and managers of ser…
A theoretical conceptualisation of connection to culture in Australian First Peoples children
Connection to culture in Australian First Peoples children is an important social determinant of health in child development and wellbeing. The current study draws upon the collective knowledge of Australian First Peoples Elders and community leaders to collaboratively develop the first theoretical conceptualisation of connection to culture in Australian First Peoples children. Through participatory action research, we integrated both Western and…
Collaborative housing communities through the Covid-19 pandemic: Rethinking governance and mutuality
The national lockdown in response to the COVID-19 pandemic has revealed the prevalence and importance of informal mutual support in neighbourhoods and social networks. Mutual support structures and functions are strong in collaborative housing, in which people often intentionally form resident communities to enhance support practices. Using qualitative methods, this article examines how lockdown restrictions have impacted on practices of mutual s…
Direct Payments for Older Adults in an Age of Austerity
Direct payments are a form of personalisation in which service users take full control of the organisation and management of their own care. This is considered to be a method that maximises autonomy choice and control. This article sets out findings from a study commissioned in 2016 by a local authority (LA) in England to explore older people’s views of direct payments (DPs) for social care. Semi-structured interviews were undertaken with older p…
Towards Critical Intersections of Ageing, Housing and Well-Being
Across the life course, far-reaching socio-demographic and health related transformations are influencing the meaning of home in the UK. The collection presented in this Special Issue of Home Futures critically interjects into the ‘where and when’ of dwelling during the process of ageing with key concepts explored within this introductory article. It argues that, change is seen through the disruption of conventional ideas of ageing ‘at home’, tra…
From Bilateral to Trilateral Governance in Local Government Contracting in France
In France, the tradition of contracting out local public services has been predominantly one of partnership and co-operation rather than competition and antagonism. However, in recent years the traditional approach has come under intense criticism, something which has far-reaching implications for public-private governance. Adopting the socio-legal approach to the study of contract governance set out by Peter Vincent-Jones, this paper explores th…
The Greater London Authority: Problems of Strategy Integration
English The Act that established the Greater London Authority (GLA) incorporated many of New Labour’s aspirations for modern governance. Among those aspirations was the notion of policy integration, or ‘joining up’. The Mayor of Greater London was required to develop a number of strategies, broadly in the planning and environmental policy domains, and to ensure that those strategies meshed into a coherent overall strategy for promoting London’s e…
Is the French Model Giving Way to a New 'Logic of Appropriateness'? Lessons from Urban Waste Management
Processes of European integration and growing consumer scrutiny of public services have served to place the spotlight on the traditional French model of public/private interaction in the urban services domain. This article discusses recent debates within France of the institutionalised approach to local public/private partnership, and presents case study evidence from three urban agglomerations of a possible divergence from this approach. Drawing…
Business Privilege and the Strategic Planning Agenda of the Greater London Authority
The establishment of the Greater London Authority (GLA) in 2000 brought a new form of politics to London and new powers to formulate strategic policy. Through an investigation of the access of business interests in the formulation of London's strategic agenda, this article illuminates one aspect of the pressures on city government. It uses the urban regime approach as a framework for analysing the co-operation between the Mayor and business inter…
From Bilateral to Trilateral Governance in Local Government Contracting in France
In France, the tradition of contracting out local public services has been predominantly one of partnership and co-operation rather than competition and antagonism. However, in recent years the traditional approach has come under intense criticism, something which has far-reaching implications for public-private governance. Adopting the socio-legal approach to the study of contract governance set out by Peter Vincent-Jones, this paper explores th…
Inter-Municipal Cooperation in France: Incentives, Instrumentality and Empty Shells
What Do Public Values Mean for Public Action: Putting Public Values in Their Plural Place
Public values are moving from a research concern to policy discourse and management practice. There are, though, different readings of what public values actually mean. Reflection suggests two distinct strands of thinking: a generative strand that sees public value emerging from processes of public debate; and an institutional interpretation that views public values as the attributes of government producers. Neither perspective seems to offer a p…
The Comparative Study of Local Government and Politics: Overview and Synthesis ‐ Edited by Harald Baldersheim and Hellmut Wollmann
Subnational Government. The French Experience ‐ by John Loughlin
What Is the Public Value of Government Action? Towards a (New) Pragmatic Approach to Values Questions in Public Endeavours
There has been a resurgence of interest in values in recent public administration research, based on two distinct arguments. For different reasons, neither approach is likely to secure a robust normative basis for public endeavours. These reasons are assessed, using an alternative body of theory rooted in contemporary social theory that we term, ‘new pragmatism’. New pragmatic ideas are deployed to critique the divorce of values from facts; the a…
Articulating discursive and materialist conceptions of practice in the logics approach to critical policy analysis
In this article it is argued that while Glynos and Howarth's logics of critical explanation (LCE) offers an important and promising contribution to critical policy analysis, it, along with other approaches that focus on the meaning of social action, faces a growing challenge in the form of a so-called new materialist turn in social and political theory. The article argues that there is much to be gained for the logics approach in paying closer at…
Governing narratives. Symbolic politics and policy change , by Hugh T. Miller, Tuscaloosa
The grip of personalization in adult social care: Between managerial domination and fantasy
This paper examines the ‘ideological grip’ of personalization. It does so empirically, tracking the trajectory of personalization through austerity budgeting in one English local authority. In this case, personalization continued to signify hope and liberation even though the most draconian cuts in the Council’s history effectively rendered personalization a practical impossibility. This requires critical theorization. Two bodies of theory are in…
Välfärdsfantasier: Personalisering av offentlig service i Storbritannien
The article shows how personalisation in the UK has become part of a particular public service reform trajectory, in which it is argued that the threat of an ageing population makes it imperative to transform public services if the welfare state is not to collapse the welfare state. Personalisation is also the means by which it is thought that public service users can be empowered to make individual choices. The article describes the concrete eme…
Logics of marginalisation in health and social care reform: Integration, choice, and provider-blind provision
The period 2010–2013 was a time of far-reaching structural reforms of the National Health Service in England. Of particular interest in this paper is the way in which radical critiques of the reform process were marginalised by pragmatic concerns about how to maintain the market-competition thrust of the reforms while avoiding potential fragmentation. We draw on the Essex school of political discourse theory and develop a ‘nodal’ analytical frame…
Death talk’, ‘loss talk’ and identification in the process of ageing
In this paper, we examine the injunction issued by the prominent politician, broadcaster and older people's advocate, Baroness Joan Bakewell, to engage in ‘death talk’. We see positive ethical potential in this injunction, insofar as it serves as a call to confront more directly the prospects of death and dying, thereby releasing creative energies with which to change our outlook on life and ageing more generally. However, when set against a cult…
Enjoying the third age! Discourse, identity and liminality in extra-care communities
Extra-care housing has been an important and growing element of housing and care for older people in the United Kingdom since the 1990s. Previous studies have examined specific features and programmes within extra-care locations, but few have studied how residents negotiate social life and identity. Those that have, have noted that while extra care brings many health-related and social benefits, extra-care communities can also be difficult affect…
Making it real or sustaining a fantasy? Personal budgets for older people
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the current policy of extending personal budgets to older people. Design/methodology/approach In developing this explanation, the paper draws upon a species of de-centred, post-foundationalist theory which draws attention to the way in which certain narratives can sustain a longing for the implementation of policies that are ultimately unachievable. The paper also draws upon original data from an ev…
The possibilities and limits of political contestation in times of ‘urban austerity’
This paper seeks to provide a conceptual framework in which to examine the social practices of contemporary austerity programmes in urban areas, including how these relate to different conceptions of crisis. Of current theoretical interest is the apparent ease with which these austerity measures have been accepted by urban governing agents. In order to advance these understandings we follow the recent post-structuralist discourse theory ‘logics’ …
Direct Payments for Older Adults in an Age of Austerity
Direct payments are a form of personalisation in which service users take full control of the organisation and management of their own care. This is considered to be a method that maximises autonomy choice and control. This article sets out findings from a study commissioned in 2016 by a local authority (LA) in England to explore older people’s views of direct payments (DPs) for social care. Semi-structured interviews were undertaken with older p…
Towards Critical Intersections of Ageing, Housing and Well-Being
Across the life course, far-reaching socio-demographic and health related transformations are influencing the meaning of home in the UK. The collection presented in this Special Issue of Home Futures critically interjects into the ‘where and when’ of dwelling during the process of ageing with key concepts explored within this introductory article. It argues that, change is seen through the disruption of conventional ideas of ageing ‘at home’, tra…
Do the Welsh have it? Evaluating a bereavement support service supporting people bereaved by dementia
Accumulating evidence suggests that a dementia diagnosis, for many, triggers feelings of grief, and often marks the first of many losses that will be experienced by both the person who has received the diagnosis and their loved ones, as the disease progresses. Previous research has also revealed that carers who report higher levels of pre-death grief are at greater risk of complicated grief after their loved one has died. Despite this evidence, a…
Austerity in a disadvantaged West Midlands neighbourhood: Everyday experiences of families and family support professionals
This article examines everyday effects of austerity in Kingshurst – a disadvantaged urban neighbourhood in the West Midlands. It draws on qualitative data gathered from local families with children, and public and third sector professionals working in the area in family support services. While some of the issues raised are common to other disadvantaged communities across the UK, we recognise that austerity is experienced in specific socio-spatial…
Interdependence, commitment, learning and love: The case of the United Kingdom's first older women's co-housing community
Housing options for older people in the United Kingdom (UK) have been rather limited to remaining living ‘independently’ in one's own home and some variant of institutionally provided, pre-established and age-exclusive housing such as retirement communities, extra-care or sheltered housing. However, interest in alternative forms of housing and living which align more closely with the expectations of those currently entering later life is steadily…
Preventing Drift through Continued Co-Design with a First Nations Community: Refining the Prototype of a Tiered Fasd Assessment
As part of the broader Yapatjarrathati project, 47 remote health providers and community members attended a two-day workshop presenting a prototype of a culturally-safe, tiered neurodevelopmental assessment that can identify fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) in primary healthcare. The workshop provided a forum for broad community feedback on the tiered assessment process, which was initially co-designed with a smaller number of key First Nat…
Reimagined day care for older people - supporting older people and caregivers to age in place
There is a widespread view amongst policy makers, as well as some senior managers and commissioners in local authorities, that collective forms of day care for older people are outdated and not aligned with wider policy ambitions. However, there is also growing recognition, amongst advocacy organisations such as Carers UK and Age UK, that many older people and their caregivers would welcome the opportunity to attend collective day care services, …
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