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Facing up to reality
- Author:
- HENWOOD Melanie
- Journal article citation:
- Insight, 6.6.90, 1990, p.15.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Publishing
Previews the forthcoming Social Services Committee report on carers.
Helping the helpers
- Author:
- HENWOOD Melanie
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 13.8.98, 1998, pp.22-23.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Reports on how support for carers is still a neglected area despite government steps to address the problem.
Tipping the balance: the implications of change in acute healthcare for patients and their families
- Author:
- HENWOOD Melanie
- Publisher:
- National Association of Health Authorities and Trusts
- Publication year:
- 1995
- Pagination:
- 28p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Birmingham
Paper looking at changes in acute healthcare and how these are affecting patients and their carers.
Making a difference: implementation of the community care reforms two years on
- Author:
- HENWOOD Melanie
- Publisher:
- Nuffield Institute for Health
- Publication year:
- 1995
- Pagination:
- 42p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Leeds
2nd report from a community care monitoring project. Provides an independent account of progress in implementing the community care changes based on sampling the experience and perceptions of a vertical cross-section of stakeholders in a range of localities across England.
What price carers' rights?
- Author:
- HENWOOD Melanie
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 25.3.93, 1993, pp.vi-vii.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Considers the role of informal carers and the importance of community care practice in responding to carers' needs.
Carer‐related research and knowledge: findings from a scoping review
- Authors:
- LARKIN Mary, HENWOOD Melanie, MILNE Alisoun
- Journal article citation:
- Health and Social Care in the Community, 27(1), 2019, pp.55-67.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
The review discussed in this paper provides a unique synthesis of evidence and knowledge about carers. The authors adopted a scoping review methodology drawing on a wide range of material from many different sources published between 2000 and 2016. It offers key insights into what we know and how we know it; reinforces and expands evidence about carers’ profile; shows knowledge is uneven, e.g. much is known about working carers, young carers and carers of people with dementia but far less is about older carers or caring for someone with multiple needs. A striking feature of much research is a focus on caring as a set of tasks, rather than a dimension of an, often dyadic, relationship. While there is substantive evidence about the negative impact of caring, the review suggests that links for particular groups of carers may be effective, overall the evidence base is weak. There is a tension between cost‐effectiveness and what is valued by carers. Developing robust evaluative models that accommodate this tension, and take account of the dyadic context of caring is a critical challenge. A fundamental deficit of carer‐related research is its location in one of two, largely separate, paradigmatic (Edited publisher abstract)
Positive outcome?
- Author:
- HENWOOD Melanie
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 26.9.02, 2002, p.40,41.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Describes the Department of Health-commissioned research programme, Outcomes of Social Care for Adults (OSCA).
Older carers and carers of people with dementia: improving and developing effective support
- Authors:
- LARKIN Mary, HENWOOD Melanie, MILNE Alisoun
- Journal article citation:
- Social Policy and Society, 21(2), 2022, pp.242-256.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
The policy drive to support carers is a longstanding national and international priority. Research about the design and delivery of support for carers is critical to the underpinning evidence base. Through a timely exploration of a third sector perspective, the UK-based study discussed in this article provides insights into approaches to, and the commissioning of, support for older carers and carers of people with dementia. The study highlights the importance of: embedding carers' perspectives in service developments; the provision of both generic and targeted support which adopts a nuanced and tailored approach; titrating the delivery of information and advice at a pace to match carers' needs; capturing quantitative and qualitative dimensions in service evaluation; and increased quantity (Edited publisher abstract)
Utilising carer related research and knowledge: a scoping review and information resource. Research findings
- Authors:
- LARKIN Mary, MILNE Alisoun, HENWOOD Melanie
- Publisher:
- NIHR School for Social Care Research
- Publication year:
- 2019
- Pagination:
- 5
- Place of publication:
- London
A summary of key findings from a scoping review on carers and caring. The review carried out searches between June and December 2016, retrieving a total of 3,434 references. The resources were classified into four categories: the impact of care; carer variables - the characteristics and features of different types of carer and caring situations; Type of care - the nature of needs of the cared for person, and the features of the care situation; and Support and carers. Key findings include that: caring is extremely diverse and involves all sections and age groups of the population; although there are similarities in the experiences of carers, all caring is unique; and that knowledge about groups of 'hard to-reach' carers remains relatively poor and there are deficits in relation to BAME carers (Edited publisher abstract)
Ignored and invisible: carers' experience of the NHS; report of a UK research survey commissioned by Carers National Association
- Author:
- HENWOOD Melanie
- Publisher:
- Carers National Association
- Publication year:
- 1998
- Pagination:
- 60p.,tables.
- Place of publication:
- London
Research report. Contains sections on: characteristics of the carers in the study; care needs and support from services; health needs and health care; information and the NHS; hospital care and aftercare; the importance of the NHS to carers; and conclusions and recommendations.