The government's NHS Plan emphasises the importance of services based on users' views. This highly topical report provides practical guidance on how to ensure that older people's views are heard and acted on, and their views monitored, in relation to service quality. Quality at home for older people: provides new information on the definition of quality in home care services by service users both under and over 80 years of age; identifies users' priorities for the first time; shows the differences and similarities in the perceptions of quality between white and minority ethnic service users; compares different methods of obtaining service users' views; makes recommendations for ways of ensuring that listening to older people's views on quality becomes part of the mainstream process of purchasing and providing quality home care services. This report will be invaluable for policy makers, home care service managers and providers, and service users and voluntary organisations concerned with ensuring that service users' voices are listened to. It will also be of interest to academics and students on nursing, social care, social work and social policy courses.

About the Author
Norma Raynes is Professor of Social Care at the Faculty of Health Care and Social Work Studies at the University of Salford, Manchester.

Reviews
"Recommend for policy makers, home care service managers and providers, and service users and voluntary organisations concerned with ensuring that service users' voices are listened to." Australasian Journal on Ageing
"... should inspire providers and organisers of services to replicate many of the adopted strategies ... the great strength of this report is the sense of immediate, urgent optimism it generates." Ageing & Society



Book Information
ISBN 9781861343529
Author Norma Raynes
Format Paperback
Page Count 80
Imprint Policy Press
Publisher Policy Press