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Improving life satisfaction for the elderly living independently in the community: care recipients' perspective of volunteers
- Author:
- WILSON Anne
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work in Health Care, 51(2), February 2012, pp.125-139.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
Informal carers (in this case referring to unpaid volunteers not related to those in need) provide a range of services to help older people with health and social needs to remain living independently in their own homes and communities. This article reports on clients' perspectives of support received from a volunteer support programme in South Australia which aims to increase the independence of frail and older people isolated in their own homes. A qualitative study was undertaken, using face-to-face semi-structured interviews with 16 randomly selected clients to gather data. The article describes the results of analysis, including quotations from the transcribed interviews, which identified 3 main themes relating to improved life satisfaction: being helped with daily activities, positive human contact, and fear of a poorer quality of life. It concludes that the findings demonstrate that older people are able to remain independent if provided with appropriate community care services, and that addressing recipients' social, emotional, and mobility needs supported them to remain living at home.
Helping looked-after children and young people cope when they are ill
- Author:
- WILSON Ann
- Journal article citation:
- Scottish Journal of Residential Child Care, 8(2), October 2009, pp.33-40.
- Publisher:
- Department of Social Work. University of Strathclyde.
Looked after children are among our most disadvantaged young people in terms of their health and wellbeing. There are problems with longer-term preventative care in the form of health surveillance and routine immunisations, and also in the shorter term when they are ill. Corporate parenting is one way that should ensure that looked after children who become ill are helped. This paper looks at the healthcare needs and priorities at times of illness for children and young people who are looked after. A range of healthcare professionals who are involved in corporate parenting at times of illness were interviewed to find out how they saw their role in relation to the looked after child, the challenges presented, and the part they play in the corporate family. Views from general practitioners, community paediatricians, community psychiatric nurses, hospital paediatricians and LAC specialist nurses are provided in the article. Case studies which illustrate some of the issues which have arisen for ill looked after children are also described. The article concludes that it is vitally important for professionals to recognise the poorer health background of these children, and to act accordingly by prioritising their needs and promoting coordination and communication between the relevant agencies. Also needed is a robust record-keeping system which follows the young person through any placement moves. The young person should also be encouraged to build their resilience and promote their ability to take greater responsibility for their own health.
Mixed race children: a study of identity
- Author:
- WILSON Anne
- Publisher:
- Allen and Unwin
- Publication year:
- 1987
- Pagination:
- 230p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Preventing developmental disabilities and promoting maternal and child health: women organising for change
- Author:
- WILSON Ann M.
- Journal article citation:
- Affilia: Journal of Women and Social Work, 18(4), Winter 2003, pp.473-478.
- Publisher:
- Sage
Learning difficulties and related developmental disabilities affect 1.5% of the population in the United States. Efforts to address preventable developmental disabilities, such as those caused by lead poisoning, fetal alcohol syndrome, and traumatic brain injuries, have been the focus of activities in one state for almost 20 years. These efforts were created, and have been organised and sustained, by women. The prevention coalition was established to foster cooperation, identify and develop resources, and advocate for programmes, services, and legislation. The coalition further promotes the development of leaders in the human services and public health fields and embraces feminist principles of collaboration, mutual support, nurturance,and self-empowerment in its organizing efforts. Implications for community organizing and development, public awareness and community education around primary prevention issues, legislative advocacy, mentoring and coaching of emerging leaders, community partnerships, and social change are discussed.
Genes spell danger: mental health service users/survivors, bioethics and control
- Authors:
- BERESFORD Peter, WILSON Anne
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 17(5), August 2002, pp.541-553.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
This article argues for debates about bioethics and disabled people to address and include the perspectives of psychiatric system survivors, and their concerns about psychiatry and bioethics. While genetic approaches to physical and sensory impairment can be seen to be concerned with physical and bodily conformity, genetic approaches to madness and mental distress that are gaining increasing power and official legitimacy, are also closely associated with regulating diversity, divergence and dissent in thinking and perceptions.
'Anti-Oppressive Practice': Emancipation or appropriation
- Authors:
- WILSON Anne, BERESFORD Peter
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Social Work, 30(5), October 2000, pp.553-573.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
This article offers an initial critical discussion of the concept of anti-oppressive practice (AOP) from the perspectives of service users. Whilst acknowledging the emancipatory aspirations of anti-oppressive practice, it also considers its regressive potential. AOP has become central in social work theory and practice and indeed is sometimes presented as a key approach and theory of social work. This discussion highlights the failure so far significantly to involve service users and their organizations in the development of anti-oppressive social work impact upon service users; the problems raised by 'expert' appropriation of users' knowledge and experiences and the issues raised by the failure so far to address the use of social work and social care services as an area of difference and category of social division. Finally, the article examines alternatives to existing notions of anti-oppressive practice based on the equal involvement of service users.
Mental health services users and disability: implications for future strategies
- Authors:
- BERESFORD Peter, HARRISON Chris, WILSON Anne
- Journal article citation:
- Policy and Politics, 30(3), July 2002, pp.387-396.
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
This article investigates what appears to be an ambiguity in the approach of disability policy and disability politics to mental health service users. Mental health policy, which has always had powers to restrict their rights, is now increasingly associating mental health service users/survivors with "dangerousness" and focusing on them as a threat to "public safety". Mental health service users"/survivors" organisations, which have so far tended to focus their activities on mental health policy and partnership approaches to making change,are now beginning to look to disability policy and politics to develop their thinking and activities for the future, while retaining their own distinct and independent identity. This has important implications for disability studies, policy and politics.