Social and Residential Care

• Alzheimer's Society campaign for free health care for all older people. Barbara Pointon's account of her complaint to the Ombudsman about her fight for respite care, which the Society supported, is both inspiring and illuminating
• Better Care Higher Standards
• Care Calculator
• Care homes for older people in the UK: A market study OFT 2005
• Care Standards Act 2000
• Carers (Recognition and Services) Act 1995
• Carers and Disabled Children Act 2000
• Carers and Direct Payments Act (Northern Ireland) 2002
• Carers Online
• Caring about Carers
• Caring Choices
• Centre for Policy on Ageing
• Charging for residential accommodation guide
• Community Care and Health (Scotland) Act 2002
• Continuing care policy National framework for NHS continuing healthcare and NHS funded nursing care in England: A consultation 2006
• Coughlan Judgement
• Crossroads
• Department of Health Guidance
• Elderly Client Adviser
• English Community Care Association
• Fair access to care
• Guidance to local authorities on charges for residential accommodation
• Inquiry into the Delivery of Community Care in Scotland: Response by the Scottish Executive
• Health Select Committee report on Long Term Care 2005
• Health Service Commissioner: NHS funding for long term care of older and disabled people 2003
• Independence Well-being and Choice 2005 - SHA response
• Long term care in Scotland (pdf file)
• The National Care Standards Commission Registration Regulations 2001
• National Service Framework for Older People
• NHS-funded nursing care policy
• Options paper seeks fairer ways to share the cost of caring for older people 2005
• Paying for long-term care: Moving forward 2006
• People First
• Personal Social Services Research Unit
• Personalisation in health and social care services SHA Conference 2008
• Princess Royal Trust for Carers
• Regulation of Care (Scotland) Act 2001
• The Poor Law 1601
• Scottish Carers Alliance
• The Sutherland Report 2000
• SHA Submission to the House of Commons Health Committee 1997
• SHA Policy on charges for residential care 1999
• Supporting People (Costs of sheltered accommodation) Scotland
• UK National Health Service Care Information
• Wanless Social Care Review
• Welfare reform generally