About PSSRU
PSSRU's mission is to conduct high quality research on social and health care.
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Welcome to PSSRU at Kent and LSE
This is the website for the Personal Social Services Research Unit at the University of Kent at Canterbury and the London School of Economics and Political Science. Since 1974 PSSRU has undertaken high-quality, independent research in social and health care, which has had an important influence on theory, and policy development and reform in England and elsewhere. Our work is underpinned by the production of welfare framework and focuses on needs, resources and outcomes. We continue to work in the fields of adult and children's social and health care, including mental health, long-term care funding, cost and outcome measurement, and cost-effectiveness evaluation. We are funded from a variety of sources and collaborate closely with a number of research units and academic departments elsewhere.
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NEW PUBLICATIONSSupport for adoption placements: the first six months, British Journal of Social Work, 2013 The role of care home fees in the public costs and distribut..., Health, Economics, Policy and Law, 2013, 8, 1, 47-73 Feeling in control: comparing older people’s experiences in ..., Ageing and Society, 2013 Older people’s experiences of cash-for-care schemes: evidenc..., Ageing and Society, 2013, 33, 5, 826-851 The relationship between building design and residents' qual..., Health and Place, 2013, 21, 52-64 |
CURRENT RESEARCHDeveloping a care home quality indicator based on residents' social care-related quality of life: adaptation of the Adult Social Care Outcomes Toolkit ASSET: adult social services environments and settings Recent survey evidence about unpaid carers: implications for social care practice in England Unit costs of health and social care Quality and Outcomes Research Unit (QORU) Economics of Health and Social Care (ESHCRU) Childhood Wellbeing Research Centre (CWRC) |
