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Facing up to sex in homes
- Authors:
- CHESTER Rosie, SMITH Jef
- Journal article citation:
- Registered Homes and Services, 4(4), August 1999, pp.56-58.
Reports on the work of the Sex, Love and Intimacy Project, (SLIP), a two year project which aims to seek out, describe and analyse good practice in residential and nursing home care.
Who cares plans: a guide to care planning in homes for older people
- Authors:
- COLEMAN Valerie, REGAN Dominic, SMITH Jef
- Publisher:
- Counsel and Care
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 84p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Practical text on care planning for older people in residential care. The focus is on how an individual resident's life can be a positive and enriching experience.
'My residential care needs for 2025'
- Author:
- SMITH Jef
- Journal article citation:
- Care Plan, 6(1), September 1999, pp.25-27.
- Publisher:
- Positive Publications/ Anglia Polytechnic University, Faculty of Health and Social Work
The author, general manager, Counsel and Care, looks forward a quarter of a century and speculates on the kind of facilities and rights he will demand in an age of rising expectations. Argues that the residential homes of tomorrow will have to look very different to that of today if his aspirations are to bet met.
Windows to a damaged world: good practice in communicating with people with dementia in homes
- Authors:
- CLARKE Alison, HOLLANDS Jackie, SMITH Jef
- Publisher:
- Counsel and Care
- Publication year:
- 1996
- Pagination:
- 50p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Contains chapters on: creating a new culture of dementia care in homes; making residents feel truly at home; creating environments friendly to people with dementia; helping residents to participate in social activities; developing the full potential of each resident; using a relaxation and stimulation room; and humanity, personhood and communication.
Cost-cutting homes need close inspection
- Author:
- SMITH Jef
- Journal article citation:
- Care Plan, 2(2), December 1995, pp.20-22.
- Publisher:
- Positive Publications/ Anglia Polytechnic University, Faculty of Health and Social Work
The Government's Moving Forward consultative document has raised fears that there could be deregulation of private residential homes. The author, private manager of Counsel and Care, argues that inspectoral arrangements for residential homes have been one of the successes of community care. There should be more focused inspection rather than less.
The fullness of time: how homes for older people can respond to their residents' need for wholeness and a spiritual dimension to care
- Authors:
- REGAN Dominic, SMITH Jef
- Publisher:
- Counsel and Care
- Publication year:
- 1997
- Pagination:
- 61p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Report of a project looking at whether the spiritual, ethical and cultural needs of older people in residential care are being met and to provide pointers on, and examples of, best practice.