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The promises and the reality of smart, digital telecare in England 英国智能数字医疗的前景和现实

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Housing Care and Support Pub Date : 2021-10-03 DOI: 10.1108/hcs-03-2021-0010

Phoebe Stirling, G. Burgess

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Meeting the private sector housing condition and adaptation needs of older people: responses from London’s environmental health and allied services 满足私营部门的住房条件和老年人的适应需要:伦敦环境卫生和相关服务部门的反应

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Housing Care and Support Pub Date : 2021-09-06 DOI: 10.1108/hcs-03-2021-0009

J. Stewart

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Pandemic preparedness and response in service hub cities: lessons from Northwestern Ontario 服务中心城市的流行病防范和应对:来自安大略省西北部的经验教训

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Housing Care and Support Pub Date : 2021-09-03 DOI: 10.1108/hcs-04-2021-0012

R. Schiff, Bonnie Krysowaty, Travis Hay, Ashley Wilkinson

{"title":"Pandemic preparedness and response in service hub cities: lessons from Northwestern Ontario","authors":"R. Schiff, Bonnie Krysowaty, Travis Hay, Ashley Wilkinson","doi":"10.1108/hcs-04-2021-0012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/hcs-04-2021-0012","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Purpose\u0000Responding to the needs of homeless and marginally housed persons has been a major component of the Canadian federal and provincial responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. However, smaller, less-resourced cities and rural regions have been left competing for limited resources (Schiff et al., 2020). The purpose of this paper is to use a case study to examine and highlight information about the capacities and needs of service hub cities during pandemics.\u0000\u0000\u0000Design/methodology/approach\u0000The authors draw on the experience of Thunder Bay – a small city in Northern Ontario, Canada which experienced a serious outbreak of COVID-19 amongst homeless persons and shelter staff in the community. The authors catalogued the series of events leading to this outbreak through information tracked by two of the authors who hold key funding and planning positions within the Thunder Bay homeless sector.\u0000\u0000\u0000Findings\u0000Several lessons may be useful for other cities nationally and internationally of similar size, geography and socio-economic position. The authors suggest a need for increased supports to the homeless sector in small service–hub cities (and particularly those with large Indigenous populations) to aid in the creation of pandemic plans and more broadly to ending chronic homelessness in those regions.\u0000\u0000\u0000Originality/value\u0000Small hub cities such as Thunder Bay serve vast rural areas and may have high rates of homelessness. This case study points to some important factors for consideration related to pandemic planning in these contexts.\u0000","PeriodicalId":43302,"journal":{"name":"Housing Care and Support","volume":"56 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2021-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90782420","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The impact of a refurbishment programme on older people living in sheltered housing 翻新方案对住在庇护住房的老年人的影响

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Housing Care and Support Pub Date : 2021-08-19 DOI: 10.1108/hcs-02-2021-0004

Z. Sattar, S. Wilkie, J. Ling

{"title":"The impact of a refurbishment programme on older people living in sheltered housing","authors":"Z. Sattar, S. Wilkie, J. Ling","doi":"10.1108/hcs-02-2021-0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/hcs-02-2021-0004","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Purpose\u0000This paper aims to explore residents' perceptions of a refurbishment programme to sheltered housing schemes and its impact on their well-being.\u0000\u0000\u0000Design/methodology/approach\u0000The methodology draws upon a realist evaluation framework. Four participatory appraisals (PAs) and 19 interviews with residents were conducted in the sheltered housing schemes. Ages of participants ranged from 50 to 99 years.\u0000\u0000\u0000Findings\u0000Two categories of residents were identified: healthy active older adults and older frail adults (or over 85+). Residents said their social and emotional well-being improved from the provision of indoor and outdoor communal areas. Older frail residents only accessed the new communal spaces when staff took them in their wheelchairs. The physical changes increased opportunities for social connections for residents. Conservatories and sensory gardens were most popular. Residents felt that structured activities in the new spaces and digital training would improve their social activities.\u0000\u0000\u0000Research limitations/implications\u0000The participatory methods spanned over an hour, and some residents felt too tired to complete the full session.\u0000\u0000\u0000Practical implications\u0000A practical limitation was that some sensory rooms were not fully completed at the time of the evaluation.\u0000\u0000\u0000Originality/value\u0000This paper adds the following: Perceptions of residents of a refurbishment programme in sheltered housing and the impact on their well-being. Perceptions of residents about social activities after a refurbishment programme. Perceptions of residents about the impact of physical changes to their sheltered housing schemes and impact on their internal accessibility to the improvements.\u0000","PeriodicalId":43302,"journal":{"name":"Housing Care and Support","volume":"39 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2021-08-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89968292","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The pandemic and homeless people in the Turin area: the level of housing adequacy shapes experiences and well-being 都灵地区的流行病和无家可归者:住房适足程度决定了经历和福祉

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Housing Care and Support Pub Date : 2021-08-14 DOI: 10.1108/hcs-03-2021-0006

Daniel C. Leonardi, Silvia Stefani

{"title":"The pandemic and homeless people in the Turin area: the level of housing adequacy shapes experiences and well-being","authors":"Daniel C. Leonardi, Silvia Stefani","doi":"10.1108/hcs-03-2021-0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/hcs-03-2021-0006","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Purpose\u0000Considering the case study presented, the purpose of this paper is to analyse the impact of the pandemic in local services for homeless people. Drawing from the concept of ontological security, it will be discussed how different services’ levels of “housing adequacy” shaped remarkably different experiences of the pandemic for homeless people and social workers in terms of health protection and agency.\u0000\u0000\u0000Design/methodology/approach\u0000This paper focuses on a case study concerning homeless services for people during the COVID-19 pandemic in the metropolitan and suburban area of Turin, in Northern Italy. In-depth interviews with social workers and participant observation during online meetings of workers from the shelters constitute the empirical data that have been collected during the first wave of the pandemic in Italy.\u0000\u0000\u0000Findings\u0000According to the findings, the pandemic showed shelters as unsafe places that reduce homeless people’s decision power and separate them from the rest of the citizenship. Instead, Housing First projects emerged as imore inclusive and safermore inclusive and safer spaces, able to enhance people’s power over their own lives. The pandemic did not create emerging issues in the homeless services system or discontinuities: rather, it amplified pre-existing problematic aspects.\u0000\u0000\u0000Originality/value\u0000The case study presented provides empirical insights to recognise at the political and organisational level the importance of housing as a measure of individual and collective security, calling for an intervention to tackle homelessness in terms of housing policies rather than exclusively social and emergency treatment.\u0000","PeriodicalId":43302,"journal":{"name":"Housing Care and Support","volume":"28 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2021-08-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87996696","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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A stakeholder analysis of government policy intervention in the Ghanaian slum communities 加纳贫民窟社区政府政策干预的利益相关者分析

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Housing Care and Support Pub Date : 2021-07-16 DOI: 10.1108/HCS-12-2020-0020

Anthony Nkrumah Agyabeng, Alexander Preko

{"title":"A stakeholder analysis of government policy intervention in the Ghanaian slum communities","authors":"Anthony Nkrumah Agyabeng, Alexander Preko","doi":"10.1108/HCS-12-2020-0020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/HCS-12-2020-0020","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Purpose\u0000Slum upgrading has received intense attention in the Global South, particularly among stakeholders. This study aims to examine government policy priorities towards slum management with the view of establishing its level of commitment in terms of measures undertaken and identify specific policies to structure the sector.\u0000\u0000\u0000Design/methodology/approach\u0000The study systematically reviewed national policies, guided by the frequency statistics method in identifying key issues relating to slums management. Content analysis was used to identify findings into themes and discussed in line with the study’s objectives.\u0000\u0000\u0000Findings\u0000The results revealed the government’s determination to upgrade the existing slums, with the establishment of a Ministry for Inner City and Zongo Development to facilitate collaboration between stakeholders in the value chain of slum management. Furthermore, the study established government’s resolve to strengthen the Local Government Act, 1993, and the National Development Planning Act, 1994 within context to pave way for slums upgrading.\u0000\u0000\u0000Research limitations/implications\u0000The study used a national policy framework to inform the conclusion reached. Further studies are needed in similar contexts to understand the inputs of government and stakeholders and their contributions towards slum management. This would further expand the frontiers of knowledge in the domain.\u0000\u0000\u0000Practical implications\u0000The findings revealed policy-driven that can be used by policymakers, practitioners, housing managers and other relevant stakeholders to create workable policies for slum management.\u0000\u0000\u0000Originality/value\u0000This study provides first insight into government commitment to slums management using national policy documents in context.\u0000","PeriodicalId":43302,"journal":{"name":"Housing Care and Support","volume":"93 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2021-07-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80470081","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Evaluating trauma informed care training for services supporting individuals experiencing homelessness and multiple disadvantage 评估创伤知情护理培训服务支持个人无家可归和多重不利

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Housing Care and Support Pub Date : 2021-06-26 DOI: 10.1108/hcs-01-2021-0002

Robert A. Burge, Anna Tickle, Nima G. Moghaddam

{"title":"Evaluating trauma informed care training for services supporting individuals experiencing homelessness and multiple disadvantage","authors":"Robert A. Burge, Anna Tickle, Nima G. Moghaddam","doi":"10.1108/hcs-01-2021-0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/hcs-01-2021-0002","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Purpose\u0000Implementing trauma informed care (TIC) for individuals facing homelessness and multiple disadvantage is proposed to help both service users and staff work effectively and therapeutically together. However, the effectiveness of implementing TIC via training is debatable. This study aims to explore the effects of a four-day TIC and psychologically informed environments training package in such services.\u0000\u0000\u0000Design/methodology/approach\u0000The analysis explores the effect of this training on the degree of TIC as measured by the TICOMETER, a psychometrically robust organisational measure of TIC. The study examines group and individual level changes from before training and again at six-month and one-year follow-up time-points.\u0000\u0000\u0000Findings\u0000At the group level analysis, three of the five TICOMETER domains (knowledge and skills, relationships, and policies and procedures) were higher when compared to pre-training scores. The remaining two domains (service delivery and respect) did not improve. Individual-level analysis showed some participants’ scores decreased following training. Overall, the training appeared to modestly improve the degree of TIC as measured by the TICOMETER and these effects were sustained at one-year follow-up.\u0000\u0000\u0000Research limitations/implications\u0000Findings are limited by the design and low response rates at follow-up.\u0000\u0000\u0000Practical implications\u0000Training is necessary but not sufficient for the implementation of TIC and needs to be complemented with wider organisational and system-level changes.\u0000\u0000\u0000Originality/value\u0000This paper is the first UK study to use the TICOMETER.\u0000","PeriodicalId":43302,"journal":{"name":"Housing Care and Support","volume":"8 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2021-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81970534","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Tenant management under COVID-19 pandemic season among informal settlement rental housing in Ghana 2019冠状病毒病大流行季节加纳非正式定居点租赁住房的租户管理

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Housing Care and Support Pub Date : 2021-06-25 DOI: 10.1108/HCS-02-2021-0005

A. Miller, F. Agbenyo, Royal Mabakeng Menare

{"title":"Tenant management under COVID-19 pandemic season among informal settlement rental housing in Ghana","authors":"A. Miller, F. Agbenyo, Royal Mabakeng Menare","doi":"10.1108/HCS-02-2021-0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/HCS-02-2021-0005","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Purpose\u0000The purpose of this study is to evaluate the roles of landlords in tenant management during COVID-19 pandemic season among informal settlement neighbourhoods in urban Ghana.\u0000\u0000\u0000Design/methodology/approach\u0000This study used a mixed methods research approach and foregrounds the discussions of the results with the social roles theory. Using the quota sampling procedure, this study used 467 semi-structured interviews of tenants from five old informal settlement neighbourhoods in urban Ghana. This study adopted the thematic analytical technique in the results section.\u0000\u0000\u0000Findings\u0000This study uncovered that landlords perform a gate-keeping social relationship role in ensuring tenant safety during the COVID-19 pandemic season through the provision of security, care and support, discipline, hard work, morale building to accountability. However, this study found that most landlords do not provide tenancy agreements to tenants which strained some social relationships in tenant management.\u0000\u0000\u0000Originality/value\u0000The application of social roles theory in this study provides a cutting-edge approach to the study of welfare of tenants living in informal settlement housing units during periods of pandemic. This study practically provides a participatory approach to analysing and discussing the roles of landlords in tenant management and proffering solutions for formalisation of these roles in housing policies in Ghana.\u0000","PeriodicalId":43302,"journal":{"name":"Housing Care and Support","volume":"64 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2021-06-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90374689","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Change readiness in individuals experiencing homelessness and multiple complex needs 改变无家可归者和有多种复杂需求的个人的准备情况

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Housing Care and Support Pub Date : 2021-05-07 DOI: 10.1108/HCS-11-2020-0017

A. Lord, Anna Tickle, Anna Buckell

{"title":"Change readiness in individuals experiencing homelessness and multiple complex needs","authors":"A. Lord, Anna Tickle, Anna Buckell","doi":"10.1108/HCS-11-2020-0017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/HCS-11-2020-0017","url":null,"abstract":"Purpose This study aims to understand how staff in homelessness services conceptualise readiness for change in the individuals they support and how this informs their decision-making in practice. Design/methodology/approach A qualitative design was used. Ten staff members participated in semi-structured interviews. Data were examined through inductive–deductive thematic analysis, using a social constructivist epistemological lens. Findings Five main themes were constructed: “multiple complex needs mean multiple complex changes”, “talk versus behaviour”, “change is not a linear trajectory”, “the role of consistent boundaried relationships” and “change is not solely within the individual’s control”. Practical implications This research challenges existing notions of “readiness for change” as located within individuals and a prerequisite for using support from services. It has implications for staff and services, particularly those which are time-limited and address only single problems; service users may not be ready for some changes, but it should not be assumed they are not ready for change in other areas of their life. The offer of supportive relationships may precede and contribute to readiness for positive changes. Support should be offered based not only an individual’s intra-psychic readiness for change but also how the system might actively work to promote hope that change can be achieved and maintained. Originality/value To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this is the first study to explore staff members’ conceptualisations of readiness to change in relation to individuals with multiple complex needs and how this might influence practice.","PeriodicalId":43302,"journal":{"name":"Housing Care and Support","volume":"60 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2021-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79842089","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Choosing to be homeless? Persistent rough sleeping and the perverse incentives of social policy in England 选择无家可归?持续的露宿和英国社会政策的反常激励

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Housing Care and Support Pub Date : 2020-11-26 DOI: 10.1108/hcs-07-2020-0010

G. Bowpitt

{"title":"Choosing to be homeless? Persistent rough sleeping and the perverse incentives of social policy in England","authors":"G. Bowpitt","doi":"10.1108/hcs-07-2020-0010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/hcs-07-2020-0010","url":null,"abstract":"Purpose: With the temporary housing of rough sleepers in response to the Covid-19 emergency, some commentators have been tempted to believe that the rising population of rough sleepers in the UK has finally been reversed. This paper aims to examine the choices made by persistent rough sleepers and how far they are influenced by the perverse incentives of social policies, in order to challenge the view that they sleep rough out of choice. \u0000 \u0000Design/methodology/approach: Evidence for this paper is derived from two teams of frontline service providers with routine familiarity with the rough sleeping population: a street outreach team and a team of support workers working with adults with multiple and complex needs. Primary data from focus groups were combined with the secondary analysis of both numerical and narrative accounts routinely recorded by both teams. \u0000 \u0000Findings: The exercise of agency by persistent rough sleepers is constrained by a mixed baggage of complex needs, past negative risk assessments, limited resources and regulatory deterrents to generate choices to reject help that appear irrational. These need to be understood if recent policy initiatives to end rough sleeping are to be effective. \u0000 \u0000Originality/value: The paper draws on the experience and comprehensive records of practitioners with intimate knowledge of the rough sleeping population. It extends narrative accounts of causes by focusing on key choices to show how the perverse incentives of policy combine with personal factors to incline rough sleeping to persist.","PeriodicalId":43302,"journal":{"name":"Housing Care and Support","volume":"42 1","pages":"135-147"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2020-11-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87032461","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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