Department of Health Research Programme 2006-2010 - Choice and independence across the lifecourse
Projects funded from the main DH Programme grant:
- Welfare consumerism, disability and social care
- Understanding the dynamics of decision-making and choice about social care and related services
- Choice and change: extending choice and control over the lifecourse - a qualitative longitudinal panel study
- Domiciliary care agencies' responses to increased user choice
- Transition to adult services of disabled young people leaving ‘out of authority’ residential schools
- National evaluation of the Individual Budgets (IB)Pilot Projects (IBSEN)
Responsive mode projects:
- Access to information about social care – response to recommendation from the Better Regulation Task Force
- Review of research on risk and social care
- Individual budgets (IBSEN): impact and outcomes for carers
- Home care re-ablement services: investigating the longer-term impacts (prospective longitudinal study)
- Investigating the longer-term effects of home care reablement services (retrospective longitudinal study)
- Reforming long-term care: lessons from other countries
- Scoping review of research on interventions to support carers
Projects linked to the DH programme
- Knowledge review on outcomes-focused services for older people and their carers
- Examining the dynamics of choice: the context for informal care
- Carers' aspirations and decisions around work and retirement
- Carers and asset management for older people
- Respite care for frail older people: an appraisal of effectiveness and cost effectiveness
- Care provision within families and its socio-economic impact on care providers
Department of Health Outcomes Programme, 2001-2005
- Outcomes for disabled service users
- Flexible, person-centred home care for older people: How is it achieved?
- Priorities and perceptions of disabled children and young people and their families regarding outcomes of social care
- Outcomes into Practice Network & Resource Pack
Department of Health Outcomes Programme, 1996-2000
- Research summaries available here for the projects below:
- Introducing an outcome focus into care management and user surveys
- Outcomes and assessment with older people
- Briefing home care staff about older people's individual needs
- Implementing an outcomes approach to carer assessment and review
- Surveying outcomes of equipment and adaptations
- Learning from older community care clients
- Outcomes in Community Care Series - research reports from these projects
