Innovations in the Care of the Elderly Routledge Library Editions: Health, Disease and Society Series

Originally published in 1984 and concentrating on the West Midlands area of the UK, this book describes the innovations that were made and all that was involved in bringing about changes in care provision for elderly people. The areas covered include hospital-based geriatric and psychogeriatric services, changes in the public housing sector, the development of a domiciliary physiotherapy service and community nursing teams for the terminally ill. These new attitudes and practical treatment changes succeeded in radically altering the climate of care and were the result of small innovatory groups of care-providers.

1. The Nature of Innovation 2. Promoting Innovation – A District Medical Officer’s View 3. How Local Government Funds Innovations in Social Services 4. Early Intervention in a General Practice 5. Extended role of the Home Help Service 6. High-Rise Sheltered Housing David 7. Domiciliary Physiotherapy for the Elderly in South Birmingham 8. The Volunteer Stroke Scheme Eileen Staunton 9. A Continence Advisory Service 10. Making a Geriatric Department Effective 11. Hollymoor Psychogeriatric Service 12. A Day Centre for the Elderly Mentally Infirm 13. Residential Home for the Elderly Mentally Inform 14. Domiciliary Care of the Terminally Ill 15. Education in Care of the Elderly 16. The Societal Context of Innovation in Care of the Elderly .

Bernard Isaacs held the Charles Hayward Chair of Geriatric Medicine at the University of Birmingham, UK. Helen Evers was Senior Research Fellow at the University of Warwick, UK.