Ailsa Cameron
Biographic Data
| ID | 4187708 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ailsa Cameron |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ailsa |
| FAMILY NAME | Cameron |
| SIGNATURE | CAMERON A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bristol |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0201-0993 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 38 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 125 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 38 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Connecting evidence with decision-making in adult social care: A cross-sectional staff survey
For adult social care organizations faced with growing challenges, an increasingly important issue is how best to make use of relevant research. This article reports on a survey that sought to assess the views, experiences, and use of research among adult social care staff in three neighboring local authorities in England. Findings In total, 250 staff (30% response rate) across all grades and areas of practice responded to the survey. Staff expre…
Ageing in place: Rethinking the role of generalist day centres
AiP policies can mask cost-cutting that ignores structural inequalities in ageing • Day centres offer collective support that individualised care models cannot provide • Community spaces extend 'home' beyond the private sphere in later life • Day centres address critical gaps overlooked by current AiP approaches • Reinvesting in day centres could create a more equitable vision of ageing in place ‘Ageing in place’ (AiP) is generally understood as …
The Role of Day Care in the Provision of Integrated Services for Older People
Collective forms of day care services have the potential to play a more significant role in the provision of local place based integrated care in England
What Influences the Use of Research by the Adult Social Care Workforce
Despite a recognition that research evidence plays a critical role in informing decisions in adult social care, there has been little investment in developing the sector’s own capacity to engage with it. This article reports on a qualitative study of the adult social care workforce (social workers, occupational therapists, managers and commissioners) in three local authorities in England. Data were collected through twenty-five semi-structured in…
The Place of Research in the Professional Identity of Practitioners and Managers in Adult Social Care
The nature of professional identity in the roles of practitioners in social care is not clearly defined. This article uses baseline data from a study seeking to increase the use of research in decision‐making within adult social care to discuss the role of research in the professional identity of social care practitioners. Semistructured interviews were completed with 25 members of staff working in adult social care in the UK, employing purposive…
Accessing Meals on Wheels: A qualitative study exploring the experiences of service users and people who refer them to the service
AIMS: This study aimed to explore the perceptions of Meals on Wheels (MoWs) service users (SUs), and people who refer them to MoWs ('referrers'), with accessing and commencing the service in England, the barriers that might hinder service uptake, and what information would be valued when considering accessing the service. METHODS: Semistructured interviews were conducted in May-July 2022 with seven SUs and 21 referrers, recruited from four MoWs p…
From Research to Knowledge Translation: Co‐Producing Resources to Raise Awareness of Meals on Wheels in England
BACKGROUND: Meals on Wheels (MoWs) could help adults with care and support needs continue living independently. However, many people are not aware that the service still exists in England, or that it could provide benefits beyond nutrition. OBJECTIVE: Working with an existing advisory group of six people with lived experience of MoWs (an adult who uses MoWs and people who have referred a family member to MoWs), this work aimed to co-produce knowl…
Shooting in the dark’: Implications of the research–practice gap for enhancing research use in adult social care
While participants feel positively towards research, there remains a gap between these perceptions and its use in practice. There remains a need to improve research relevance and accessibility and to clarify its role in decision-making in social care, including where there is no evidence, where evidence challenges existing practice, or where the evidence base is growing. Collaborative partnerships between adult social care organisations, research…
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…
“The Service, I Could Not Do without It…”: A Qualitative Study Exploring the Significance of Meals on Wheels among Service Users and People Who Refer Them to the Service
Meals on Wheels (MoWs) is a social care service providing daily meals and social contact to adults who need support to live in the community. Considering the rising number of adults who need help with shopping for food and preparing meals in England, MoWs could be essential for these individuals; yet little is known about the experiences of MoWs service users and people who refer them to MoWs (“referrers”), with the service. The aim of this study…
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, …
The impact of Covid-19 lockdown measures on older residents' social connections and everyday wellbeing within housing schemes that provide care and support in England and Wales
The COVID-19 pandemic and the lockdown measures imposed as a result affected the lives of people in all parts of society across the world. In 2020, during the first UK national lockdown, older adults (aged 70 years and over) were told to 'shield' within their homes, as they were regarded as being at higher risk of serious COVID-19 infection compared to other age groups. This paper explores older adults' experiences of COVID-19 lockdown measures w…
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…
Extra hands’ or the ‘icing on the cake’? The boundaries of the volunteer role in formal care settings in England
The adult social care sector in England has been encouraged to increase the role of volunteers in service delivery. To understand the volunteer role in care delivery and its impact upon paid care work, we undertook 94 qualitative interviews in seven care settings for older people in England. While the boundaries between care worker and volunteer were clearly established in some organisations, they were more indistinguishable in others. We discuss…
It’s not just about the dinner; it’s about everything else that we do’: A qualitative study exploring how Meals on Wheels meet the needs of self‐isolating adults during Covid‐19
Meals on Wheels (MoWs), a service offered by local authorities in England, deliver meals to older, housebound and/or vulnerable adults, who might otherwise not be able to acquire and prepare their own meals. Research suggests that MoWs provide benefits beyond nutrition. Little is known about the actual interactions between service providers and clients, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic. The aim of this small-scale, formative study was to…
Supporting Older Co-Resident Carers of Older People – The Impact of Care Act Implementation in Four Local Authorities in England
The Care Act 2014 provides for ‘parity of esteem’ between people with social care needs and carers. This is achieved by extending the principles of prevention and wellbeing to carers; reinforcing carers’ right to an assessment; and setting national eligibility criteria for access to carer support services. This article reports on research that examined the impact of these changes on older co-resident carers of older people in four English local a…
Timebanking and the co‐production of preventive social care with adults; what can we learn from the challenges of implementing person‐to‐person timebanks in England
This paper explores the potential contribution of timebanking, an innovative volunteering scheme, to the co-production of preventive social care with adults in England. Interest in volunteering in social care has increased as one proposed solution to the international crisis of a rising demand for services in juxtaposition with decreased resources. Volunteering has been particularly promoted in preventive services that prevent or delay care needs…
Ageing in extra-care housing: Preparation, persistence and self-management at the boundary between the third and fourth age
Extra-care housing (ECH) has been hailed as a potential solution to some of the problems associated with traditional forms of social care, since it allows older people to live independently, while also having access to care and support if required. However, little longitudinal research has focused on the experiences of residents living in ECH, particularly in recent years. This paper reports on a longitudinal study of four ECH schemes in the Unit…
Cognitive impairment and homelessness: A scoping review
This paper reports the findings of a scoping review designed to identify research which has explored the relationship between cognitive impairment and homelessness. A systematic search of databases for articles published between 2007 and 2017 was conducted using keywords relating to cognitive impairments and homelessness. Sources were expanded using manual searches of citations and grey literature. Forty studies represented in 45 papers were sele…
The challenges of integrating housing and care for older people
The International Journal of Integrated Care (IJIC) is an online, open-access, peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes original articles in the field of integrated care on a continuous basis.IJIC has an Impact Factor of 5.120 (2020 JCR, received in June 2021)
You have got to stick to your times’: Care workers and managers’ experiences of working in extra care housing
Extra care housing (ECH) has been lauded as an innovative model of housing with care for older people that promotes and supports independent living. The study used a qualitative design to explore how care is delivered in four extra care settings in England over 20 months during 2016-2017. This paper reports findings from semi-structured interviews with 20 care workers and seven managers. The article argues that, despite being heralded as a new mo…
Outcomes-based commissioning for social care in extra care housing: Is there a future
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of the process of commissioning adult social care services in England. It reflects the literature on commissioning at the strategic level followed by a section on operational or micro-commissioning. The rest of the paper focusses on the emergence of ideas about outcomes-based commissioning (OBC) in the field of adult social care and ends with critical consideration of the effectiveness o…
Older people’s perspectives on dignity: The benefits and challenges of a qualitative longitudinal approach to researching experiences of later life
This article discusses findings from a qualitative longitudinal study of dignity in later life, which focused on the perspectives of older people at a time when their need for help and support was increasing as a result of long-term illness. It reflects critically on the methodology for its ability to generate knowledge about this eventful and unstable period of the life-course. It is argued that a longitudinal qualitative approach provides the o…
Discourses of joint commissioning
Increasing attention has focused on the role of joint commissioning in health and social care policy and practice in England. This paper provides an empirical examination of the three discourses of joint commissioning developed from an interpretative analysis of documents by Dickinson et al. (2013; BMC Health Services Research, 13) and applied to data from our study exploring the role of knowledge in commissioning in England. Based on interviews …
Policy transfer and integrated care development in the Outram Regional Health System (RHS) in Singapore
Introduction : (comprising background and problem statement) In Singapore, as in other parts of the world, the healthcare system is undergoing reform. The thrust towards this is motivated by the global shared experience of a rapidly ageing population, an increasing burden of chronic diseases, decreasing old-age support across the nation, increasing healthcare costs, and a rising demand for healthcare. In response to these changes, and amongst man…
Identity in the fourth age: Perseverance, adaptation and maintaining dignity
The fourth age remains a poorly understood phenomenon and there is a lack of understanding of the perceptions of those who might be considered to be living in it. This article draws on findings from a study of dignity in later life which examined the day-to-day experiences of participants who were in need of support and care because of failing health. It discusses their accounts of the changes to their sense of self and their identity that came a…
Reflexivity and Researching the Military
While the concept of reflexivity has been used extensively across the social sciences over many decades, its impact on studies of the military has remained marginal. Reasons for this go to the heart of the dominant epistemological foundations of a military sociology that implicitly assumes that researcher bias can be neutralized by adhering to the traditional positivist model of sociological research. In this article, the authors argue that there…
From pillar to post: Homeless women's experiences of social care
This paper reports findings from a longitudinal study of homeless women. Thirty-eight women were recruited with a retention rate of 58% over three rounds of interviews. Interviews explored specific events in women's lives, their current living arrangements and how their experiences and needs, including for social care, changed over time. Data were analysed thematically using a priori codes. Women reported a range of complex issues, consistent wit…
Outcomes-based commissioning for social care in extra care housing: Is there a future
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of the process of commissioning adult social care services in England. It reflects the literature on commissioning at the strategic level followed by a section on operational or micro-commissioning. The rest of the paper focusses on the emergence of ideas about outcomes-based commissioning (OBC) in the field of adult social care and ends with critical consideration of the effectiveness o…
Policy makers’ perceptions on the use of evidence from evaluations
Using data from the Department of Health funded study ‘Making the most of policy evaluations’, this paper explores the views of those working within the policy process about the role of evidence. It highlights a tension between formative and summative uses of research, which appeared to be exacerbated by a lack of clarity surrounding the objectives that policy leads had for the research. Additionally, the data reveal an uncertainty about the stat…
Working across boundaries to improve health outcomes: A case study of a housing support and outreach service for homeless people living with HIV
This paper reports the findings of an evaluation of the 'Housing Support, Outreach and Referral' service developed to support people living with HIV who were homeless or at risk of homelessness. The service was set up as part of the Supporting People Health Pilot programme established to demonstrate the policy links between housing support services and health and social care services by encouraging the development of integrated services. The pape…
The impact of Covid-19 lockdown measures on older residents' social connections and everyday wellbeing within housing schemes that provide care and support in England and Wales
The COVID-19 pandemic and the lockdown measures imposed as a result affected the lives of people in all parts of society across the world. In 2020, during the first UK national lockdown, older adults (aged 70 years and over) were told to 'shield' within their homes, as they were regarded as being at higher risk of serious COVID-19 infection compared to other age groups. This paper explores older adults' experiences of COVID-19 lockdown measures w…
Supporting Older Co-Resident Carers of Older People – The Impact of Care Act Implementation in Four Local Authorities in England
The Care Act 2014 provides for ‘parity of esteem’ between people with social care needs and carers. This is achieved by extending the principles of prevention and wellbeing to carers; reinforcing carers’ right to an assessment; and setting national eligibility criteria for access to carer support services. This article reports on research that examined the impact of these changes on older co-resident carers of older people in four English local a…
Older people’s perspectives on dignity: The benefits and challenges of a qualitative longitudinal approach to researching experiences of later life
This article discusses findings from a qualitative longitudinal study of dignity in later life, which focused on the perspectives of older people at a time when their need for help and support was increasing as a result of long-term illness. It reflects critically on the methodology for its ability to generate knowledge about this eventful and unstable period of the life-course. It is argued that a longitudinal qualitative approach provides the o…
Are some boundaries easier to bridge
The impetus to work across boundaries is a longstanding theme in British public policy. Critical commentary has emerged from different perspectives, but has not provided empirically based analysis of joint working across different sectors and spheres of practice. In this article we present findings from an evaluation of joint working in the Supporting People Health Pilots. These raise questions about why some agencies – primarily in the voluntary…
Healthy Start: The Use of Welfare Food Vouchers by Low-Income Parents in England
The Healthy Start scheme provides food welfare to pregnant women and children under four years old in the UK. The Government provides vouchers to families living on a low income that can be exchanged for infant formula, plain cow's milk and fresh or frozen fruit and vegetables. This article reports on a qualitative study of parents using Healthy Start in England. Interviews were conducted with 107 parents from thirteen areas in England. Most foun…
The challenges of joint working: Lessons from the Supporting People Health Pilot evaluation
The pilots demonstrate that integrating services to support people with complex needs works best when the service is determined by the characteristics of those who use the service rather than pre-existing organisational structures
Shooting in the dark’: Implications of the research–practice gap for enhancing research use in adult social care
While participants feel positively towards research, there remains a gap between these perceptions and its use in practice. There remains a need to improve research relevance and accessibility and to clarify its role in decision-making in social care, including where there is no evidence, where evidence challenges existing practice, or where the evidence base is growing. Collaborative partnerships between adult social care organisations, research…
It’s not just about the dinner; it’s about everything else that we do’: A qualitative study exploring how Meals on Wheels meet the needs of self‐isolating adults during Covid‐19
Meals on Wheels (MoWs), a service offered by local authorities in England, deliver meals to older, housebound and/or vulnerable adults, who might otherwise not be able to acquire and prepare their own meals. Research suggests that MoWs provide benefits beyond nutrition. Little is known about the actual interactions between service providers and clients, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic. The aim of this small-scale, formative study was to…
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…
Timebanking and the co‐production of preventive social care with adults; what can we learn from the challenges of implementing person‐to‐person timebanks in England
This paper explores the potential contribution of timebanking, an innovative volunteering scheme, to the co-production of preventive social care with adults in England. Interest in volunteering in social care has increased as one proposed solution to the international crisis of a rising demand for services in juxtaposition with decreased resources. Volunteering has been particularly promoted in preventive services that prevent or delay care needs…
Ageing in extra-care housing: Preparation, persistence and self-management at the boundary between the third and fourth age
Extra-care housing (ECH) has been hailed as a potential solution to some of the problems associated with traditional forms of social care, since it allows older people to live independently, while also having access to care and support if required. However, little longitudinal research has focused on the experiences of residents living in ECH, particularly in recent years. This paper reports on a longitudinal study of four ECH schemes in the Unit…
You have got to stick to your times’: Care workers and managers’ experiences of working in extra care housing
Extra care housing (ECH) has been lauded as an innovative model of housing with care for older people that promotes and supports independent living. The study used a qualitative design to explore how care is delivered in four extra care settings in England over 20 months during 2016-2017. This paper reports findings from semi-structured interviews with 20 care workers and seven managers. The article argues that, despite being heralded as a new mo…
Crossing the housing and care divide: Integrating housing and social care for older people
The fundamental role of housing in community care has long been acknowledged. However, progress in achieving any real integration of housing and social care has been slow. This article reports the findings from the Crossing the Housing and Care Divide programme, which was jointly sponsored by the Housing Corporation and Anchor Trust. The programme aimed to stimulate developments in services for older people that would enable housing to become par…
Reflexivity and Researching the Military
While the concept of reflexivity has been used extensively across the social sciences over many decades, its impact on studies of the military has remained marginal. Reasons for this go to the heart of the dominant epistemological foundations of a military sociology that implicitly assumes that researcher bias can be neutralized by adhering to the traditional positivist model of sociological research. In this article, the authors argue that there…
The challenges of joint working: Lessons from the Supporting People Health Pilot evaluation
The pilots demonstrate that integrating services to support people with complex needs works best when the service is determined by the characteristics of those who use the service rather than pre-existing organisational structures
Working across boundaries to improve health outcomes: A case study of a housing support and outreach service for homeless people living with HIV
This paper reports the findings of an evaluation of the 'Housing Support, Outreach and Referral' service developed to support people living with HIV who were homeless or at risk of homelessness. The service was set up as part of the Supporting People Health Pilot programme established to demonstrate the policy links between housing support services and health and social care services by encouraging the development of integrated services. The pape…
Policy makers’ perceptions on the use of evidence from evaluations
Using data from the Department of Health funded study ‘Making the most of policy evaluations’, this paper explores the views of those working within the policy process about the role of evidence. It highlights a tension between formative and summative uses of research, which appeared to be exacerbated by a lack of clarity surrounding the objectives that policy leads had for the research. Additionally, the data reveal an uncertainty about the stat…
Are some boundaries easier to bridge
The impetus to work across boundaries is a longstanding theme in British public policy. Critical commentary has emerged from different perspectives, but has not provided empirically based analysis of joint working across different sectors and spheres of practice. In this article we present findings from an evaluation of joint working in the Supporting People Health Pilots. These raise questions about why some agencies – primarily in the voluntary…
Creating the asset base – a review of literature and policy on housing with care
Purpose – Appropriate housing for the growing population of older adults is becoming an international concern. The purpose of this paper is to report on a review of UK and international literature carried out as part of a project exploring the commissioning and delivery of social care in housing with care settings. The paper also considers housing with care in the context of UK policy and practice. Design/methodology/approach – The peer literatur…
Factors that promote and hinder joint and integrated working between health and social care services: A review of research literature
This article reports the results of a review of the research evidence related to joint working in the field of adult health and social care services in the UK. It explores whether recent reforms to joint working have met the objectives set by policy-makers. The review followed an established methodology: electronic databases were searched using predetermined terms, abstracts were screened against inclusion criteria, studies that met the criteria …
The role of ‘embeddedness’ in the delivery of integrated children's services
Identity in the fourth age: Perseverance, adaptation and maintaining dignity
The fourth age remains a poorly understood phenomenon and there is a lack of understanding of the perceptions of those who might be considered to be living in it. This article draws on findings from a study of dignity in later life which examined the day-to-day experiences of participants who were in need of support and care because of failing health. It discusses their accounts of the changes to their sense of self and their identity that came a…
Healthy Start: The Use of Welfare Food Vouchers by Low-Income Parents in England
The Healthy Start scheme provides food welfare to pregnant women and children under four years old in the UK. The Government provides vouchers to families living on a low income that can be exchanged for infant formula, plain cow's milk and fresh or frozen fruit and vegetables. This article reports on a qualitative study of parents using Healthy Start in England. Interviews were conducted with 107 parents from thirteen areas in England. Most foun…
From pillar to post: Homeless women's experiences of social care
This paper reports findings from a longitudinal study of homeless women. Thirty-eight women were recruited with a retention rate of 58% over three rounds of interviews. Interviews explored specific events in women's lives, their current living arrangements and how their experiences and needs, including for social care, changed over time. Data were analysed thematically using a priori codes. Women reported a range of complex issues, consistent wit…
Policy transfer and integrated care development in the Outram Regional Health System (RHS) in Singapore
Introduction : (comprising background and problem statement) In Singapore, as in other parts of the world, the healthcare system is undergoing reform. The thrust towards this is motivated by the global shared experience of a rapidly ageing population, an increasing burden of chronic diseases, decreasing old-age support across the nation, increasing healthcare costs, and a rising demand for healthcare. In response to these changes, and amongst man…
Integrating housing and care for older people
The International Journal of Integrated Care (IJIC) is an online, open-access, peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes original articles in the field of integrated care on a continuous basis.IJIC has an Impact Factor of 2.913 (2021 JCR, received in June 2022)The IJIC 20th Anniversary Issue was published in 2021
Outcomes-based commissioning for social care in extra care housing: Is there a future
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of the process of commissioning adult social care services in England. It reflects the literature on commissioning at the strategic level followed by a section on operational or micro-commissioning. The rest of the paper focusses on the emergence of ideas about outcomes-based commissioning (OBC) in the field of adult social care and ends with critical consideration of the effectiveness o…
Older people’s perspectives on dignity: The benefits and challenges of a qualitative longitudinal approach to researching experiences of later life
This article discusses findings from a qualitative longitudinal study of dignity in later life, which focused on the perspectives of older people at a time when their need for help and support was increasing as a result of long-term illness. It reflects critically on the methodology for its ability to generate knowledge about this eventful and unstable period of the life-course. It is argued that a longitudinal qualitative approach provides the o…
Discourses of joint commissioning
Increasing attention has focused on the role of joint commissioning in health and social care policy and practice in England. This paper provides an empirical examination of the three discourses of joint commissioning developed from an interpretative analysis of documents by Dickinson et al. (2013; BMC Health Services Research, 13) and applied to data from our study exploring the role of knowledge in commissioning in England. Based on interviews …
Cognitive impairment and homelessness: A scoping review
This paper reports the findings of a scoping review designed to identify research which has explored the relationship between cognitive impairment and homelessness. A systematic search of databases for articles published between 2007 and 2017 was conducted using keywords relating to cognitive impairments and homelessness. Sources were expanded using manual searches of citations and grey literature. Forty studies represented in 45 papers were sele…
The challenges of integrating housing and care for older people
The International Journal of Integrated Care (IJIC) is an online, open-access, peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes original articles in the field of integrated care on a continuous basis.IJIC has an Impact Factor of 5.120 (2020 JCR, received in June 2021)
You have got to stick to your times’: Care workers and managers’ experiences of working in extra care housing
Extra care housing (ECH) has been lauded as an innovative model of housing with care for older people that promotes and supports independent living. The study used a qualitative design to explore how care is delivered in four extra care settings in England over 20 months during 2016-2017. This paper reports findings from semi-structured interviews with 20 care workers and seven managers. The article argues that, despite being heralded as a new mo…
Supporting Older Co-Resident Carers of Older People – The Impact of Care Act Implementation in Four Local Authorities in England
The Care Act 2014 provides for ‘parity of esteem’ between people with social care needs and carers. This is achieved by extending the principles of prevention and wellbeing to carers; reinforcing carers’ right to an assessment; and setting national eligibility criteria for access to carer support services. This article reports on research that examined the impact of these changes on older co-resident carers of older people in four English local a…
Timebanking and the co‐production of preventive social care with adults; what can we learn from the challenges of implementing person‐to‐person timebanks in England
This paper explores the potential contribution of timebanking, an innovative volunteering scheme, to the co-production of preventive social care with adults in England. Interest in volunteering in social care has increased as one proposed solution to the international crisis of a rising demand for services in juxtaposition with decreased resources. Volunteering has been particularly promoted in preventive services that prevent or delay care needs…
Ageing in extra-care housing: Preparation, persistence and self-management at the boundary between the third and fourth age
Extra-care housing (ECH) has been hailed as a potential solution to some of the problems associated with traditional forms of social care, since it allows older people to live independently, while also having access to care and support if required. However, little longitudinal research has focused on the experiences of residents living in ECH, particularly in recent years. This paper reports on a longitudinal study of four ECH schemes in the Unit…
It’s not just about the dinner; it’s about everything else that we do’: A qualitative study exploring how Meals on Wheels meet the needs of self‐isolating adults during Covid‐19
Meals on Wheels (MoWs), a service offered by local authorities in England, deliver meals to older, housebound and/or vulnerable adults, who might otherwise not be able to acquire and prepare their own meals. Research suggests that MoWs provide benefits beyond nutrition. Little is known about the actual interactions between service providers and clients, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic. The aim of this small-scale, formative study was to…
Extra hands’ or the ‘icing on the cake’? The boundaries of the volunteer role in formal care settings in England
The adult social care sector in England has been encouraged to increase the role of volunteers in service delivery. To understand the volunteer role in care delivery and its impact upon paid care work, we undertook 94 qualitative interviews in seven care settings for older people in England. While the boundaries between care worker and volunteer were clearly established in some organisations, they were more indistinguishable in others. We discuss…
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