Forthcoming and Recently Published Content Includes:

Improving care for patients with long term conditions through the use of technology
Pam Bradbury, West Midlands Regional Director, NHS Direct

Responding to the shifting demographics and expectations of older people
John Belcher, CEO, Anchor Trust

Individual budgets and transformational change
Veronica Jackson, Executive Director, Adult & Community Services, Oldham Metropolitan Borough Council

The significance of welfare benefit issues in the development of extra-care sheltered housing
Bob Bessell, MD, Retirement Security Ltd

Latest thinking in planning for retirement housing, assisted Living and C2 uses
David    Driscoll, CEO, Signature Senior Lifestyle Ltd

Homecare re-ablement: Why and how providers and commissioners can implement a service
Gerald Pilkington, Care Services Efficiency Delivery Programme, Dept of Health

Involving people in the design and delivery of services
Richard Kramer, Director, and Jane Stafford, Principal Research Adviser, Turning Point

Feeling the Squeeze: Ring-fencing for the protection of care sector borrowers in finance arrangements
Estelle Clarke, Partner, Thomas Eggar, LLP

What’s love got to do with it? Developing supportive practices for the expression of sexuality, sexual identity and the intimacy needs of older people
Trish Hafford-Letchfield, London South Bank University

The impact of macro-economic changes on the value of UK care homes
Jon Chapman, Director, Pinders

The Strategic Direction for Social Services in Wales
Gwenda Thomas, Deputy Minister for Health and Social Services, Welsh Assembly Government

Star ratings – how will they work for providers?
Paul Snell, Chief Inspector of the Commission for Social Care Inspection

A Framework for Performance Management of Children’s Services Partnerships
Jan Dowler, Strategy and Performance Manager for Children’s Social Care, North Yorkshire County Council 

Care homes: Caring and homely? But how?
John Burton, Consultant

Joining the dots...the case for Joint Commissioning
Nigel Walker, National Lead – Commissioning, CSIP

Telecare and the Future of Social Care
Kevin Alderson, Public Sector Policy Director, Tunstall Group

A report on the implementation of a programme to improve neurological palliative care at the end of life
Judi Byrne and Pam McClinton

Going the extra mile in delivering extra care for people living with dementia
Helen Joy, Chief Executive Officer, Brunelcare

The personalisation agenda: opportunities and threats to the domiciliary sector
Lucianne Sawyer CBE, President, UKHA

The impact of adverse care home reports on care providers: how providers can challenge poor reporting and manage their relationship with agencies
Stuart   Marchant, Partner Ridouts LLP

A model for predicting demand for social care
Dr Jennifer Dixon, Director, The Nuffield Trust

Providing housing and care services for an ageing population
Dr Liz    Cairncross, Head of Research, Institute of Public Care, Oxford Brookes University

Performance measurement in social housing projects      
John Harvey, Managing Director, IRIS Consulting

Case study: the Cheshire Extra Care Housing project
Mick Howarth, Senior Manager, Older Peoples Services, Cheshire County Council

The importance and implementation of common targets for health, housing and social care
Peter    Molyneux, Common Cause Consulting,

What makes a good dementia care home?
Professor Dawn Brooker, University of Bradford   

Commissioning for long-term conditions through the new ‘Triple Alliance': social care; public health; and practice-based commissioning
Professor Gerald Wistow, Visiting Professor, London School of Economics

Star ratings – a view from care providers
Frank Ursell, CEO, RNHA         

New tax relief changes for 2008 and the energy performance link
David Rees, Partner, Davis Langdon Crosher

Funding for Assisted Living
Paul Moran, Head of Healthcare, Bank of Ireland

Reforming healthcare through information and communication technologies
Simon Brownsell, Hazel Aldred, Tracey Young and Mark Hawley

Providing, preventing and personalising — Making plans for housing in an ageing society
Baroness Kay Andrews, Under Secretary of State, Department for Communities and Local Government

Implications of the Mental Capacity Act 2005 for Adult Health and Social Care Service Providers
John Wearing and Jon Lloyd, Anthony Collins

Partnership in Social Care
Andrea Rowe, CEO, Skills for Care

Taking responsibility for human rights – A gap in the law?
Lucy James, Trowers and Hamlins

Better Partnership between care homes and the NHS: Findings from the My Home Life Programme
Tom Owen, Help the Aged; Professor Julienne Meyer, Jane Bentley, Hazel Heath, City University, London; and Professor Claire Goodman, University of Hertfordshire

“A life not a service”?  Transforming the meaning of care
Paul Cann, Director, Help the Aged