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Assessment and community care: are the reforms working?
- Authors:
- CALDOCK Kerry, NOLAN Mike
- Journal article citation:
- Generations Review, 4(4), December 1994, pp.2-4,7.
- Publisher:
- British Society of Gerontology
Assessment has a pivotal role in the community care reforms, with an emphasise on more 'holistic' assessment practices. This article considers some of the lessons that can be learned from the early evaluation of assessment practice undertaken since the planning and implementation of the reforms. Draws from three local studies to highlight common problems in assessment practice.
Ageing and consumer culture: will we reap in whirlwind?
- Author:
- BLAIKIE Andrew
- Journal article citation:
- Generations Review, 4(4), December 1994, pp.5-7.
- Publisher:
- British Society of Gerontology
Discusses changing attitudes towards ageing and looks at how the consumer culture is capitalising on the need for people to cope with the transitions of mid- and later-life.
Bedroom abuse: the hidden work in a nursing home
- Author:
- LEE-TREWEEK Geraldine
- Journal article citation:
- Generations Review, 4(2), June 1994, pp.2-4.
- Publisher:
- British Society of Gerontology
Reports on research into the work of auxiliaries in a nursing home. Shows that non-physical abuse and mistreatment of patients was routinised and difficult to detect. Argues that research on institutional abuse needs to uncover the hidden nature of care tasks and the meanings of such work to staff, to understand abuse more fully.
Coping with a death in sheltered housing
- Author:
- -
- Journal article citation:
- Generations Review, 4(1), March 1994, pp.14-15.
- Publisher:
- British Society of Gerontology
The second seminar on the subject of sheltered housing which was arranged by the Sussex Gerontology Network and held at the University of Sussex, looks at how the death of a club member is viewed.
Structural issues in befriending and advocacy: evaluation of a befriending scheme for elders in residential care
- Authors:
- LANSLEY John, WHITTAKER Terri
- Journal article citation:
- Generations Review, 4(1), March 1994, pp.8-10.
- Publisher:
- British Society of Gerontology
The scheme evaluated by the authors' was the Good Friend Service which was started by Liverpool Personal Service Society (PSS) in 1985. Describes the problems and possibilities associated with evaluating the befriending and advocacy scheme. These include: the politics of funding; constraints in planning and delivering services; integration of residential care and community resources; professionalism and advocacy; and the volunteers' and residents' own perception of the scheme.
Sheltered housing
- Author:
- -
- Journal article citation:
- Generations Review, 4(1), March 1994, pp.11-14.
- Publisher:
- British Society of Gerontology
One of two seminars arranged by the Sussex Gerontology Network and held at the University of Sussex, this report looks at occupants' participation in sheltered housing.
Care management and the social services: reconciling the irreconcilable
- Author:
- LEWIS Jane
- Journal article citation:
- Generations Review, 4(1), March 1994, pp.2-4.
- Publisher:
- British Society of Gerontology
When government introduced the community care changes of which care management is a part, it was responding to a variety of imperatives which are arguably difficult to reconcile - the most significant being that of the carers' lobby and the huge rise in social security expenditure on people in residential care. The new policy is therefore expected to function within a framework where there exists fundamental tension regarding need and resource constraint. Explains the implications for the implementation of care management as a process that involves the determination of the level of assessment, the assessment of need, the construction of a care plan, and its implementation, monitoring and review.