Quality in Ageing and Older Adults: Volume 11 Issue 4

Editorial

Stephen Burke

News and events

A funding settlement that works for people, not services

Emma Stone, Claudia Wood

This article is about how to fund care and support for a growing, and increasingly diverse, population of older people. We ask whether it is possible to create a funding…

Time for a tax‐funded national care service

Dot Gibson

The existing social care system is riddled with complexity ‐ an unfair system of means testing to determine payment plus a postcode lottery of funding and standards ‐ providing…

Options for funding longterm care: the partnership model compared

Richard Humphries, Julien Forder

This article examines options for the reform of adult social care funding, noting that universal agreement on the need for a new system has not been matched by political consensus…

Navigating the long road to long‐term care funding reform

James Lloyd

Debate on long‐term care funding reform has evolved steadily over the last five years. New thinking has explored the role of ‘matching contributions’ and ‘cohort insurance’…

Reforming adult social care: what can England learn from the experiences of other countries?

Caroline Glendinning

This article proposes principles for reforming English adult social care by drawing on the experiences of other countries. These illustrate how the funding, organisation and…

360 degrees of care

Pat Begley

Taking the Cinderella speciality to the PROM: developing a patientrelated outcome measure for an older adult mental health service

Paul Whelan, Tresa Andrews, Seraphim Patel, Alex Lewis

In the UK there has been a shift over the last decade towards the setting of targets by commissioning or regulatory bodies so that health services provide improved levels of care…