Please see the attached evidence review (from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation) in relation to improving the decision making in the care and support of older people; including the key concept that there is a ‘decision making ecology’ involving many influences on decisions about risk and trust in an ageing society.
http://www.jrf.org.uk/publications/improving-decision-making-care
September 2012, the JRF launched a new four-year programme to develop an anti-poverty strategy for the UK. The aim is to create a set of costed, evidence-based, anti-poverty strategies for all age groups in each of the four nations of the UK.
For the current calls for proposals, where interventions appear promising, the JRF will incorporate them into the anti-poverty strategies for the UK. Current calls include:
Further details are at http://www.jrf.org.uk/funding, please contact externalprojects@staffs.ac.uk if you are interested.