Quality in Ageing and Older Adults: Volume 8 Issue 4

Editorial

Ron Iphofen

Improving quality and value in healthcare for frail older people

James George, Ian Sturgess, Sarbjit Purewal, Helen Baxter

This article reports an important multi‐centre practice‐based review that identifies good practice and an ideal pathway for the healthcare of frail older people, which, if…

Keeping the thread: older men's social networks in Sydney, Australia

Cerdic Hall, Anthony Brown, Suzanne Gleeson, Jack Zinn

Objective: to find out more about older men's experience of social activities including their preferences for creating and maintaining satisfying social connections and to…

A commentary on the emerging literature on advocacy for older people

Peter Scourfield

This paper comments on emerging themes derived from recent official publications on older people's advocacy in the UK. There is an examination of relevant policy documents and the…

How do mature learners learn?

Anita Pincas

Extra care housing: a concept without a consensus

Anthea Tinker, Hannah Zeilig, Fay Wright, Julienne Hanson, Ruth Mayagoitia, Hede Wojgani

Extra care housing has developed from sheltered housing and has increasingly been seen as a popular option by policy‐makers for a number of reasons. These include the inability of…