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Elderly Consumers and Social Care Policy
Author(s) -
Brown Chris,
Davey Joan,
Halladay Allan
Publication year - 1986
Publication title -
australian journal of social issues
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.417
H-Index - 30
eISSN - 1839-4655
pISSN - 0157-6321
DOI - 10.1002/j.1839-4655.1986.tb00833.x
Subject(s) - extension (predicate logic) , project commissioning , service (business) , publishing , older people , elderly people , public relations , service delivery framework , social policy , social care , business , marketing , gerontology , economics , medicine , political science , nursing , computer science , market economy , law , programming language
The development of social care policy for elderly Australians is proceeding with little regard for the preferences and perspectives as expressed by the elderly themselves. The likely consequence is a continuation of policies based largely on other people's assumptions about what elderly people actually need and the extension of service categories into which many elderly people do not easily fit. Discussions with 71 elderly consumers during 1983 in Queensland established that they have input to make into policy and service delivery issues such as the provision of information on services, the determination of needs, the extension of choices between alternative services and choice of appropriate service providers. Social care policy should not continue to develop around singular and untested assumptions concerning what elderly people need and prefer.