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Value for caring: recognising the value of unpaid carers
- Author:
- JORDAN Bill
- Publisher:
- King's Fund
- Publication year:
- 1990
- Pagination:
- 52p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Looks at the long-term implications for carers of measures to switch from institutional to community care. Addresses the problem of how an unpaid role can be given value in a increasingly commercial world.
Neighbours : the work of Philip Abrams
- Author:
- BULMER Martin
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
- Publication year:
- 1986
- Pagination:
- 282p., tables, bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Cambridge
Use of home care services reduces care-related strain in long-distance caregivers
- Authors:
- FALZARANO Francesca B., et al
- Journal article citation:
- Gerontologist, 62(2), 2022, pp.252-261.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
Background and Objectives: Prior work examining the role of older adult home care service use in alleviating strain in family caregivers has resulted in contradictory findings. However, prior research has been entirely limited to caregivers who live within close geographical proximity to their care recipients. Long-distance caregivers are a unique caregiving subgroup that has remained understudied. Guided by the stress process model, this study examined if the association between primary caregiving stressors (the care recipient's functional and cognitive status) and secondary stressors (perceived role strains related to work and to other family responsibilities) in long-distance caregivers was mediated by the care recipient's utilization of home care services. Research Design and Methods: The sample included 166 long-distance caregivers in the United States who provide and manage care to a community-dwelling care recipient living 2 or more hours away. Participants reported on their care recipient's cognitive and functional status, perceived interference of caregiving with work and other family responsibilities, and the care recipient's use of home care services. Results: Path analyses show that home care use by the care recipient fully mediated the association between care recipients' functional impairment and caregiver strains (work and family). Furthermore, home care use partially mediated the effects of care recipients' cognitive impairment on caregiver strains. Discussion and Implications: Results indicate that the care recipient's home care service utilization may serve as a protective factor against care-related strain in long-distance caregivers. These findings can be used to inform intervention efforts focused on a family-centered care approach that can be specifically tailored to long-distance caregivers. (Edited publisher abstract)
Literature review of identification, needs assessment and service provision for young carers and their families
- Authors:
- BANKS Pauline, et al
- Publisher:
- Scotland. Scottish Executive Central Research Unit
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 81p.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
An introductory guide to community care
- Author:
- GOODENOUGH Alan
- Publisher:
- Age Concern
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 144p.,list of orgs.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Basic guide to what community care services are available, covering: the current organisation of care services; the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990; registration and inspection; the individual care plan; record keeping; the roles of the care team members; and health and safety procedures.
Training as a vehicle to empower carers in the community: more than a question of information sharing
- Author:
- CLARKE Nicholas
- Journal article citation:
- Health and Social Care in the Community, 9(2), March 2001, pp.79-88.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Article investigates whether attendance on a training programme to empower carers resulted in improvements in carers' levels of perceived control, self-efficacy and self-esteem as partial measures of psychological empowerment. Finds that where as carers' knowledge of services and participation increased as a result of the programme, no changes were found in measures of carer empowerment. The failure to consider how training needs to be designed in order to achieve changes in individual competence and self-agency are suggested as the most likely explanation for the lack of change observed in carers' psychological empowerment. It is suggested that community care agencies should focus greater energies in determining how the policy objectives of empowerment are to be achieved through training.
Around the Institute
- Authors:
- PAYNE Chris, KENT Julie
- Journal article citation:
- NISW Noticeboard, Spring 1998, p.4.
- Publisher:
- National Institute for Social Work
Provides details of the National Institute for Social Work's Social Care Development Unit and De Montfort University's Centre for Group Care and Community Care Studies.
Going from bad to worse
- Author:
- CARLISLE Daloni
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 6.11.97, 1997, pp.8-9.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
The Carers Act 1995 enshrined the carers' rights to assessment and support. Describes a new report which reveals that budgetary pressures mean carers and their families are still not getting the help they need.
Making a positive impact for carers
- Author:
- BANKS Penny
- Journal article citation:
- Care Plan, 3(3), March 1997, pp.23-25.
- Publisher:
- Positive Publications/ Anglia Polytechnic University, Faculty of Health and Social Work
Building on the work of the first King's Fund project, the new Carers Impact Programme includes ambitious plans for advice, demonstration projects and an invitation to every health and local authority to join a national Carers Impact Network. The author describes the plans to "keep carers' needs on the agenda".
Community care for severely disabled people on low incomes
- Author:
- PHILLIPS V.L.
- Journal article citation:
- British Medical Journal, 28.10.95, 1995, pp.1121-1123.
- Publisher:
- British Medical Association
Reports on a study which examined the volume and distribution of formal and informal care received by severely disabled adults living at home in the community on low incomes.