Quality in Ageing and Older Adults: Volume 17 Issue 2

Ageing and changing patterns in familial structure for older persons in India: a decomposition analysis

Preeti Dhillon, Laishram Ladusingh, Gopal Agrawal

At the turn of twenty-first century, India is facing rapid population ageing coupled with consequential socio-economic development changes. Against the backdrop of such changes…

Exploring the Care Act’s potential for anti-discriminatory practice with lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans older people

John Crossland

The planning and provision of care for older people in the lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans (LGBT) communities is an increasing challenge to traditional welfare systems. The…

Connected communities? LGB older people and their risk of exclusion from decent housing and neighbourhoods

Dylan Kneale

The purpose of this paper is to explore the way in which the housing and neighbourhood accessibility and neighbourhood connectedness of older lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGB…

Educating a health service workforce about dementia: a qualitative study

Lesley Baillie, Eileen Sills, Nicola Thomas

People who are living with dementia are core health service users, but there are ongoing concerns about the quality of their care and the need for improved education of healthcare…

Mobility changes during the first years of retirement

Jessica Berg

Mobility is an important aspect of well-being, activity and participation. Retiring from paid work is a transition in later life when people need to adjust to a new daily…

Being self in later life: maintaining continuity in the face of change

Gareth O'Rourke

The purpose of this paper is to build upon existing knowledge of personalisation through an improved understanding of how the use of personalised social care services can support…

Working with changes in ageing

Fiona Poland