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What carers want to know
- Authors:
- MANTHORPE Jill, ILIFFE Steve
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 13.6.02, 2002, pp.34-35.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Reports on a workshop which gained insights into what carers ask of multi-agency services.
Carers and individual budgets
- Author:
- MANTHORPE Jill
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 7.5.09, 2009, p.30, 32.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
The author reports on research which aimed to examine the impact on carers of people receiving individual budgets and the outcomes for carers of this new approach.
Testing Twigg and Atkin's typology of caring: a study of primary care professionals' perceptions of dementia care using a modified focus group method
- Authors:
- MANTHORPE Jill, ILIFFE Steve, EDEN Alison
- Journal article citation:
- Health and Social Care in the Community, 11(6), November 2003, pp.477-485.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Explores professional attitudes to family members supporting an older person newly diagnosed with dementia, drawing on professional perspectives derived from a series of 24 multidisciplinary workshops held in the UK, analysed using a typology developed by Twigg in 1989. The primary care workers' understanding of carers' needs and circumstances fitted best with Twigg's models of carers as resources and co-workers, but showed limited awareness of carers' responses and attitudes to caring. It is argued that professional assumptions about family members' roles when dementia is recently recognised among older people expand definitions of carers, but still confirm their instrumental role.
Relatives' views on mouth care
- Authors:
- MANTHORPE Jill, WATSON Roger, STIMPSON Anne
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Dementia Care, 11(2), March 2003, pp.28-29.
- Publisher:
- Hawker
Oral care of people with dementia is often undertaken by family carers as much as professional staff in formal care. This article reports on carers' experiences and views by analysing the results of responses to 3777 questionnaires about caring for people with dementia. The questionnaires were part of a research project from the Alzheimer's Society, 'Food for Thought' undertaken in 2000.
Not forgetting gender: women and dementia
- Authors:
- MANTHORPE Jill, SAMSI Kritika
- Journal article citation:
- Working with Older People, 24(3), 2020, pp.221-230.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore how any proposed Women’s Health Strategy could address the needs of women affected by dementia in England. Design/methodology/approach: The authors take the following three perspectives: women living with dementia, female carers and female practitioners supporting people with dementia. Findings: In this paper, the authors explore the current (Edited publisher abstract)
Skills social care workers need to support personalisation
- Authors:
- MORIARTY Jo, MANTHORPE Jill, CORNES Michelle
- Journal article citation:
- Social Care and Neurodisability, 5(2), 2014, pp.83-90.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to consider what implications the government's policy of personalisation has for social care workers in terms of the skills that they need to achieve more personalised support for people using services and family carers. Design/methodology/approach: A total of 86 semi-structured interviews were undertaken with a purposeful sample of social care commissioners, family carers, representatives of voluntary organisations and carers’ workers based in four contrasting localities in England. Findings: Participants highlighted the need for social care workers to have more specialist knowledge both about different complex health conditions and about services in their locality. The need to offer tailored support to carers that took account of the time discusses its implications for the social care workforce in terms of their skills. There is also still only a limited literature looking at personalisation from the perspective of family carers and those working with family carers. (Publisher abstract)
Cautionary tales: accounts of dementia in fiction
- Author:
- MANTHORPE Jill
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Dementia Care, 13(4), July 2005, pp.34-35.
- Publisher:
- Hawker
Discusses whether people with dementia are actually empowered through their representations in contemporay fiction, and considers the scope of this medium to offer a genuine resource for training dementia care staff.
Early recognition of dementia: the next stage of awareness
- Authors:
- MANTHORPE Jill, ILIFFE Steve
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Dementia Care, 12(5), September 2004, pp.22-24.
- Publisher:
- Hawker
Argues that apparent problems in recognising dementia are stages in a process of growing awareness, challenging the perception that early recognition is a problem too big to deal with. Emphasises that people with dementia and their supporters have a key role in developing positive messages about early recognition approaches. Discusses components for change, human factors, skills and resources, and opportunities and threats. Concludes positive outcomes may depend on a variety of factors: local leadership and initiatives, public involvement, division of labour, new rule interpretation, and time and resources planning. Shifting attention from 'problems' to promoting change processes is a joint task.
Older people
- Author:
- MANTHORPE Jill
- Journal article citation:
- Research Matters, 16, October 2003, pp.43-48.
- Publisher:
- Community Care
Looks at research into the options for people who take early retirement and the implications for the social care profession.
Timely psychosocial interventions in dementia care
- Editors:
- MANTHORPE Jill, MONIZ-COOK Esme
- Publisher:
- Jessica Kingsley
- Publication year:
- 2020
- Pagination:
- 288
- Place of publication:
- London
An edited volume which looks at how practitioners and carers can apply psychosocial interventions to support people living with dementia, right from the earliest stages through to practice in care home settings. Contributors address potential obstacles to implementing or sustaining psychosocial interventions, consider how difficulties may be overcome, and take into account the range of contexts (Edited publisher abstract)