Health Care Park Supporting Citizen's Selfcare

The role of the Citizens Advice Bureau in supporting health care.

Increasingly, branches of the Citizens Advice Bureau throughout the UK are playing a vital role in supporting patients and their families, mainly through advising them on financial matters, but with practical and legal help on a range of other issues too. This new role is lifting a significant burden from health care staff.

Supporting Information Needs of Senior Citizens in Community Aged Care

To address the challenge of an ageing population in an information society, it is important to introduce information systems to assist the aged people in maintaining and improving their quality of life. An understanding of what information aged people need, how they seek and use information, and how they adopt Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is required. This paper reports the fi...

Do consumer voices in health‐care citizens’ juries matter?

BACKGROUND There is widespread agreement that the public should be engaged in health-care decision making. One method of engagement that is gaining prominence is the citizens' jury, which places citizens at the centre of the deliberative process. However, little is known about how the jury process works in a health-care context. There is even less clarity about how consumer perspectives are hea...

Citizens and doctors: taking control of health care.

Supporting the Rural Health Care Safety Net