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Anatomy & physiology of pain -- Relating socio-economic issues with older people and pain: independence dignity and choice -- Creaking joints, a bit of arthritis, and aches and pains: older people's experiences and perceptions of pain -- Assessment of pain -- Acute versus chronic pain -- Cancer pain in the elderly in palliative care settings -- Care settings -- Pharmacological management -- CAM and pain -- Activity & movement -- Moving forward: research & practice

ABSTRACTThis exploration of the position of "poor older people"within the context of Community Care, analyses the evidence and identifies discriminatory features that affect their lives. There follows an examination of poverty and the Government's management of the changes in Social Security legislation around pensions and benefits, with special reference to the position of women and carers. Are "economically fragile"older people members of the newly emerging underclass? The consequent inequalities are further explored via the position of carers and retired women in relation to the Benefits System; both groups seem to miss the much heralded effects of the trickle‐down economic ideology. In the era of Citizen's Charters, so called choices for economically fragile service users appear to be little more than Hobson's Choice.

The focus of this article is to introduce the community-based adult foster care of older people in Finland. Although adult foster care is a public care service, it is organised in a private home, either in the foster carer's home or in the older person's home. The foster carer and the county make a commission agreement. Adult foster care can be full-time long-term care or short-term full-time or part-time care.

Older People in Modern Society is an established classic text in its field and through subsequent editions its reputation and that of its author has grown. In this fourth and renamed edition, Anthea Tinker synthesises and discusses a wide range of literature about older people, drawing from fields such as medicine, sociology and social policy and using primary source material to illustrate the text. She also introduces a number of topics that have attained greater importance since publication of the third edition in 1992, for example, continuing care and the abuse of older people

"Well-Being of Older People in Ageing Societies poses answers to the question of how we can measure and conceptualize the well-being of older people. It focuses on the future research agenda and policy reforms that will be necessary to maintain a decent well-being for older people, given the context of our ageing populations. This book draws on longitudinal datasets and empirical research on the multidimensional measures of older people's welfare, providing a comparative analysis of social assistance and pensions for older people in the UK and The Netherlands. This title will be essential reading to anyone with an interest in gerontology and the effect society, public policy and governance can have on the welfare of older people."--Provided by publisher.

Bowel dysfunction not only causes considerable hardship for many older people and their carers, it is also financially costly to the health service and to the individuals affected. Despite the prevalence of constipation and faecal incontinence amongst, for example, older people in institutionalised settings, both conditions are often iatrogenic and entirely preventable. One reason why these conditions are generally not well managed is that the research base is poor: there are few robust data because of methodological weaknesses in existing studies, so clinicians and care staff are left to rely on anecdote and personal experience. Secondly, the costs to the NHS involved in providing proper bowel care for the elderly would be considerable, although recent government documents have set out a specific commitment to improve standards of care in this area. In order to address some of these issues, the College has recently published a book which gathers together and assesses research on faecal incontinence and constipation, and provides informed guidance on current best practice. The contents of the publication, including comments from older people suffering from bowel dysfunction, are outlined in this article.

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of illustrations -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction -- The ageing population and risk of violence -- Invisible older victims: research and UK policy context -- 'Real rape' and older women -- Researching sexual violence against older people: a feminist gerontology framing -- Book structure and chapter overview -- 2 Mapping the existing knowledge about sexual violence against older people -- Extent and nature of sexual violence against older people -- Elder abuse -- Domestic violence -- Sexual violence -- Nature and characteristics of victimisation -- Risk factors for sexual violence in later life -- Impacts, support needs and barriers to disclosing sexual violence -- Impacts of sexual violence on older women -- Support needs -- Barriers to disclosing sexual violence and accessing support -- Perpetrator characteristics and motivations -- Conclusion -- 3 The extent and nature of serious sexual violence against older people in the UK -- Method -- The extent, nature and characteristics of recorded cases -- Victim and perpetrator gender -- Perpetrator and victim age groups -- Victim and perpetrator relationship -- Victim and perpetrator ethnicity -- Location of sexual offences -- Serial sex offenders -- Links between the rape and another recorded offence -- Conclusion -- 4 The impacts, support needs and gaps in service provision for older survivors: views of practitioners -- Interviews with practitioners -- Participant demographics (sexual violence practitioners) -- Practitioners had limited experience of supporting older survivors -- Impacts of sexual violence on older survivors -- There were overlapping challenges in terms of accessing support and providing support -- Physical challenges -- Psychological challenges -- Societal challenges.

1. Life expectancy continues to rise. Women and men are living to an increasingly old age. 2. The proportion of older people in the population continues to grow. 3. Most older people live in a private household and mostly together with a partner. But the number of people living alone or in residential or long-term care homes is also increasing with age. 4. Only a small minority of older people are in need of long-term care. But the num-ber of those requiring care will continue to rise. 5. The participation rate for older employees has risen markedly in the last 15 years. 6. The average retirement age concerning old-age pensions is 64 years. 7. Among one-fifth of older women are affected by poverty in old age. 8. Older people have the same level of life satisfaction as those who are younger. 9. Volunteering is also widespread among older people. They are more often active in the social area than younger people.

AbstractQuantitative historical analysis in the United States surged in three distinct waves. The first quantitative wave occurred as part of the "New History" that blossomed in the early twentieth century and disappeared in the 1940s and 1950s with the rise of consensus history. The second wave thrived from the 1960s to the 1980s during the ascendance of the New Economic History, the New Political History, and the New Social History, and died out during the "cultural turn" of the late twentieth century. The third wave of historical quantification—which I call the revival of quantification—emerged in the second decade of the twenty-first century and is still underway. I describe characteristics of each wave and discuss the historiographical context of the ebb and flow of quantification in history.

Quantitative historical analysis in the United States surged in three distinct waves. The first quantitative wave occurred as part of the "New History" that blossomed in the early twentieth century and disappeared in the 1940s and 1950s with the rise of consensus history. The second wave thrived from the 1960s to the 1980s during the ascendance of the New Economic History, the New Political History, and the New Social History, and died out during the "cultural turn" of the late twentieth century. The third wave of historical quantification—which I call the revival of quantification—emerged in the second decade of the 21(st) century and is still underway. I describe characteristics of each wave and discuss the historiographical context of the ebb and flow of quantification in history.

Supporting People was originally promoted as a way of shifting resources out of the confines of 'special' housing towards a more flexible approach focused on people. As far as older people were concerned, it spoke of the desirability of giving more, low‐intensity support and of the opportunity for health services to become involved in the commissioning. But detailed proposals have so far been more concerned with protecting the status quo than with innovation, and have emphasised 'assessment' rather than the empowerment of service users. Change could still happen through Supporting People, and the practical housing support services older people need could be provided through the agency of primary care groups or through an extension of Attendance Allowance. The article concludes by addressing the problem of finding a suitable labour force to give older people support in their homes, and the need for joined‐up thinking on earnings restrictions for families living on benefits.