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Risk, trust, and relationships in an aging society

01/09/2013

The content of this blog has been reposted with permission from Laurie Blanchard at InfoLTC blog, at http://infoltc.blogspot.com/. Ms. Blanchard is the librarian at the Misericordia Health Centre Library, University of Manitoba Health Sciences Libraries in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Prior to working at the Misericordia Health Centre, Laurie worked at the J.W. Crane Memorial Library, Deer Lodge Centre, Winnipeg, Manitoba for 20 years.  She authors the InfoLTC blog for which she won a Manitoba Library Association's Innovation Award and the People’s Choice Award for Best Poster at the CHLA/ABSC 2009 Conference in Winnipeg. Ms. Blanchard is a former editor of the Bibliotheca Medica Canadiana (now the Journal of the Canadian Health Libraries Association (CHLA) , and currently serves on the board of the CHLA. Ms. Blanchard's views are solely her own and do not necessarily represent the views of Clinical Geriatrics or of HMP Communications, LLC.

From the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, this review considers the role of individual motivation and cognition in dealing with some of the challenges, choices, and tensions confronted in daily life in relation to the issues of risk and trust. It looks at both informal and semi-formal caring and supportive relationships.

The report:

▪   asks what would help make people more confident to make better decisions about caring for and supporting each other

▪   explores what helps or sustains people in local communities who offer help and support to others within their social network

▪   examines how society's capacity to support an aging society could be strengthened

▪   considers how formal social care structures interact with informal and semi-formal spheres and what they can learn from them

http://www.jrf.org.uk/publications/risk-trust-and-relationships-ageing-society

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