Adult social care
Current projects
Assessing outcomes of integrated care for long-term conditions
Care and support for people with complex and severe needs: innovations and practice. A scoping study
Meaning of independence for older people
Methods for accessing the ‘voice’ of older people with dementia in research
Older people's access to public and private services
Personalisation of home care for older people using managed personal budgets
Reforms in long-term care policies in Eurpean Union countries
Completed projects
Caring with Confidence (Expert Carer Programme, ECP) - evaluation
Department of Health Research Programme 2006-2010 - Choice and independence across the lifecourse:
- Choice and change: extending choice and control over the lifecourse - a qualitative longitudinal panel study
- Domiciliary care agencies' responses to increased user choice
- Dynamics of decision-making and choice about social care and related services
- Reforming long-term care: lessons from other countries
- Review of research evidence around risk in adult social care
- Transition to adult services of disabled young people leaving ‘out of authority’ residential schools
Department of Health Outcomes Programme, 2001-2005:
- Flexible, person-centred home care for older people: How is it achieved?
- Outcomes for disabled service users
- Priorities and perceptions of disabled children and young people and their families regarding outcomes of social care
Department of Health Outcomes Programme, 1996-2000
Effective respite for frail older people
Exploring the effects of the economic slowdown on adult social care
Home care for the elderly and disabled in foreign countries
Individual budgets: impact and outcomes for carers
Individual budgets pilot - IBSEN project
Knowledge review on outcomes-focused services for older people and their carers
Longer-term effects of home care reablement services (retrospective longitudinal study)
Management and effectiveness of the home care service
Personal Budgets: learning from experiences of older people and people with mental health problems
Personal Social Services - surveys of user satisfaction and experience: designing new collection
Reforming adult social care in England - lessons from other countries
Research review of risk and adult social care: focused update
