Older People's Care
This page contains information and reports on the use of telecare to enable older people to live more independently.
This Discussion paper 'Real Choice, Real Voice: older people in control' from the older people's charity, Counsel and Care, looks at how to empower older people through the greater use of Direct Payments, Individual Budgets, and Telecare.
Counsel and Care Discussion Paper 2
Differing Perspectives on Telecare: an attitudinal survey of older people, professional care workers and informal carers - a presentation by Professor Julienne Hanson, UCL and Dr. John Percival, The OU.
Differing Perspectives on Telecare
This is a Housing LIN Briefing on a background paper 'Telecare and Older People' prepared by the King's Fund for the Wanless Review published in March 2006.
This is a report from 2003 which demonstrated how Government policy could help older, disabled and vulnerable people live independently in the community as far as possible.