[Rapid Increase Of The Ageing Population In the UK and the Impact Of Ageing On Health And Social Care]

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THESIS

ABSTRACT

The increasing percentage of older persons, particularly the very vintage, is often considered of in contradictory periods for example the require for more health care. But the significances are broader and sway the future of family care as well as matters of intergenerational relatives, paid work, dwelling arrangements and attitudes. This paper examines at the social significances of an aged community on persons and on services. The present focus on community over institutionally founded modes of health and social care consignment in the UK, simultaneously with legislative change, has put a improved focus on the function of the casual part in service provision. Simultaneously, there has been an try to change the provider-role of the statutory part, supportive an developing function as purchaser and enabler of individually supplied services. Drawing on material that types part of a 3 year study into health and social care restructuring, and its result on the nurturing systems of aged reliant populations, this paper focuses on the altering function of the voluntary sector. Using empirical material drawn from the Scottish natural environment, it shows how the restructuring method may be modifying the voluntary part and assisting to a development in geographical inequity in voluntary service provision. In managing so, it considers four major components influencing localized voluntary organisations—the development of contracting, external constraints on voluntary provisioning, the leverage of the localized administration and Wolch's notion of the “Shadow State”. It best features the appearing social and spatial manifestations originating from such change, and how these modifications may furthermore be assisting to a development in geographical inequity for service recipients connected inside the dependence network.

Table of Contents

THESISIV

ABSTRACTIV

INTRODUCTION1

Background1

Research Question1

Rationale2

Aims2

METHODS3

Research Design3

Analysis3

LITERATURE REVIEW5

Global Ageing5

European Dependency5

Scotland - European not British6

Demographic and Economic Change6

Analysis Of Concepts7

Issues8

Early Development9

Recent Approaches to the Study of Aging11

Methodological Approaches And Innovations13

Evidence14

Debates15

DISCUSSION OF AGENCY16

Research Question Analysis16

External influences17

Social and spatial dimensions19

Voluntarism and the new unitary authorities21

Issues for the late 2000s23

Shadow State24

Matrix of external constraint25

CONCLUSION28

PROPOSAL42

INTRODUCTION42

Background42

Research Question42

Rationale42

Aims43

METHODS44

Research Design44

Analysis44

REFERENCES45

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THESIS

INTRODUCTION

Background

The voluntary part has long performed a function in UK welfare, arising from the introduction of the Charity Law in 1601 (Taylor, 1992). The significance put on voluntary part provisioning of health and social care, although, has arguably been commensurate with the go out and flow of state welfare provisioning, and its proficiency to cater for the varied desires of disparate assemblies inside British society.

Given the implementation of latest legislation in the UK improving the focus on service consignment inside household and ...