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This programme looks at a scheme, set up by the University of Bristol, to measure the effectiveness of voluntary helpers providing assistance to old people in the community.
This programme looks at a scheme, set up by the University of Bristol, to measure the effectiveness of voluntary helpers providing assistance to old people in the community.
| Module code and title: | P252, An ageing population |
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| Item code: | P252; 08 |
| First transmission date: | 27-09-1979 |
| Published: | 1979 |
| Rights Statement: | Rights owned or controlled by The Open University |
| Restrictions on use: | This material can be used in accordance with The Open University conditions of use. A link to the conditions can be found at the bottom of all OUDA web pages. |
| Duration: | 00:24:00 |
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| Producer: | Clare Falkner |
| Contributor: | Michael Power |
| Publisher: | BBC Open University |
| Keyword(s): | DHSS; Housebound; Voluntary work; Volunteer visiting; Worle volunteer scheme |
| Footage description: | The programme begins with various volunteers talking about why they decided to help with the scheme. Michael Power, of Bristol University, describes how a volunteer scheme was set up in Worle to test the effectiveness and reliability of such groups for the Department of Health and Social Security. A discussion meeting of the Worle volunteers is shown at which they talk about the possibility of boys on community service helping with old people's gardens. They also talk about the importance of the group keeping records. A local G.P. explains to Michael Power the difficulties he finds in visiting his older patients. Michael Power then talks to two health visitors who describe how the use of team leaders improves the volunteer scheme. Michael Power describes the range of people who responded to the call for volunteers, and then several of the women volunteers describe the type of help they give to their clients. Michael Power explains that short-term helpers were found to be as useful as long-term helpers in the experiment. Several people describe how they have been helped by the scheme and how they depend upon their visitors. Michael Power argues that most assistance came in the way of providing people with company as well as doing odd jobs. Some more older people talk about how they were helped. Finally a G.P. argues that elderly people are often disabled by only a minor ailment and so need only a little assistance in order to manage their daily lives. Several volunteers argue that the service they provide is more useful and appreciated because it is voluntary. |
| Master spool number: | 6HT/73245 |
| Production number: | FOUP016S |
| Videofinder number: | 988 |
| Available to public: | no |
