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Having your say: planning dementia services; a guide for carers
- Authors:
- DAVIDSON Ewan, et al
- Publisher:
- Scottish Action on Dementia
- Publication year:
- 1992
- Pagination:
- 39p.,bibliog.,illus.,list of org
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
Guide for people who are caring for someone with dementia which outlines ways in which carers and sufferers others representing them can influence the development of local services. Includes sections on: community care plans; setting up a carers forum; joining in conferences and meetings; assessment; complaints; surveys and research; and using your MP and local councillor.
Living with a neurological condition: standards of service for quality of life ... presented to Tim Yeo MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Department of Health, 29 September 1992
- Author:
- PARKINSON'S DISEASE SOCIETY
- Publisher:
- Parkinson's Disease Society
- Publication year:
- 1992
- Pagination:
- 21p.,tables.
- Place of publication:
- London
Social workers and dementia: a training handbook
- Authors:
- MARSHALL Mary, MYERS Katrina, BROWNLIE Julie
- Publisher:
- University of Stirling. School of Human Sciences. Department of Applied Social S
- Publication year:
- 1992
- Pagination:
- 41p.
- Place of publication:
- Stirling
Handbook aimed at social work trainers and practice teachers training people to work with older people with dementia and their carers.
Dementia: human rights series; consent to treatment vol.1; consent to research vol. 2
- Authors:
- GILHOOLY Mary, SMITH Alexander McCall, NICHOLS David
- Publisher:
- Scottish Action on Dementia
- Publication year:
- 1992
- Pagination:
- 52p.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
Volume 1 contains papers from a seminar held by the Rights and Legal Protection Sub-Committee of Scottish Action on Dementia in 1989; volume 2 discusses consent to treatment and looks at various forms of research into dementia, as well as legal and ethical issues.
Mental health and the elderly: a social work perspective
- Editor:
- TURNER Francis J.
- Publisher:
- Free Press
- Publication year:
- 1992
- Pagination:
- 261p.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- New York
Guide to the diagnosis and treatment of the range of disorders affecting elderly people. Each disorder is discussed from a social work perspective, integrating the biological, psychological, and social dimension of the problem. Topics include: depressive disorders; Alzheimer's Disease; anxiety states; alcohol abuse; suicide; schizophrenia; paranoia; the autistic elderly; and fears and phobias.
Let's go wheelies: ill-conceived behaviours amongst staff caring for people with dementia
- Author:
- LODGE Brian
- Publisher:
- British Association for Service to the Elderly
- Publication year:
- 1992
- Pagination:
- 69p.
- Place of publication:
- Newcastle-under-Lyme
Series of stories illustrating ill-conceived behaviour among staff caring for people with dementia, mainly in hospital settings. Each story is accompanied by suggestions for alternative, more appropriate behaviour from the staff member involved.
Gero-ethics: a new vision of growing old in America
- Author:
- LARUE Gerald A
- Publisher:
- Prometheus/Golden Age Books
- Publication year:
- 1992
- Pagination:
- 267p.
- Place of publication:
- Buffalo, NY
Assesses the impact of social values on older people and how older people respond to these values. Demographic change, dependence on others for care, ageism, the future of health care in the United States, empowerment, human rights,dying, death, dementia, isolation and loneliness, quality of life, disabilities and the psychological effects of ageing are looked at in this context.
REDS: re-evaluation of Dementia Sufferers Project: a community based multi-service project
- Authors:
- ARCHIBALD Carole, et al
- Publisher:
- University of Stirling. School of Human Sciences
- Publication year:
- 1992
- Pagination:
- 15p.
- Place of publication:
- Stirling
Looks at the evolution of the REDS project in Glasgow, which aimed to fill a large gap in the provision of services to people with dementia. Services provided by the project included day and home care and support group meetings.
Making Belfast work: the North and West Belfast dementia project; 1st year evaluation
- Author:
- REID Gillian
- Publisher:
- Northern Ireland. Department of Health and Social Services, Extra Care, North an
- Publication year:
- 1992
- Pagination:
- 58p.,tables,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Belfast
Evaluation of a service providing relief care for the carers of dementia sufferers that involves close working between voluntary and statutory organisations.
Tayside dementia services planning survey
- Author:
- CARR John S
- Publisher:
- University of Stirling. School of Human Sciences. Department of Applied Social S
- Publication year:
- 1992
- Pagination:
- 79p.
- Place of publication:
- Stirling
Research study which looked at the prevalence of dementia in the Tayside area, and at ways of measuring and recording the incidence more efficiently so that service providers could have a definitive base on which to plan future services.