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Expanding social work's role in home care: an ecological perspective
- Author:
- COX Carole
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work: A journal of the National Association of Social Workers (NASW), 37(2), March 1992, pp.179-183.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
Summarises characteristics of home care services in U.S.A., England, Sweden and Norway.
Overnight success
- Author:
- PEARSON Charlotte
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work Today, 6.2.92, 1992, pp.15-17.
- Publisher:
- British Association of Social Workers
Reports on a project in Glasgow's Govan district, which provides an overnight service for people with dementia living in the community.
The dawning of a new era?
- Author:
- CERVI Bob
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 9.1.92, 1992, p.7.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Disability pressure groups are objecting to charging and rationing policies being introduced by Social Services Departments for domiciliary services as being inconsistent with community care legislation and the Citizen's Charter.
Home help and care: rights, charging and reality
- Author:
- AGE CONCERN ENGLAND
- Publisher:
- Age Concern
- Publication year:
- 1992
- Pagination:
- 29p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Report focusing on the changing nature of the home help service, the duty of Local Authorities to provide the service, and on plans for charging for the service. Goes on to look at how a decision by a Local Authority not to provide a service can be challenged and at how the home help service is becoming more of a home care service. Finally, examines the providers of the service.
Independent means
- Author:
- GEORGE Mike
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work Today, 24.9.92, 1992, p.14.
- Publisher:
- British Association of Social Workers
Considers whether the ADSS will support the campaign for direct payments to people with disabilities.
Private protection
- Author:
- NEATE Polly
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 3.9.92, 1992, p.8.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Reports on guidelines drawn up by the Joint Advisory Group of Domiciliary Care Associations for the registration of domiciliary care agencies so that inspection units can protect clients in their homes.
The Daily Living Programme : preliminary comparison of community versus hospital-based treatment for the seriously mentally ill facing emergency admission
- Authors:
- MUIJEN M., et al
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Psychiatry, 160, March 1992, pp.379-384.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
Describes the result of a study of patients with serious mental illness who were randomly assigned to hospital or to the Daily Living Programme; the latter being a home care service involving a keyworker and a multidisciplinary team.
Cash or care: a question of choice; cash, community care and user participation
- Author:
- CRAIG Gary
- Publisher:
- University of York. Social Policy Research Unit
- Publication year:
- 1992
- Pagination:
- 84p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- York
Discussion paper reviewing existing policies and debates about offering care-users cash rather than services to meet their care needs.
Equity in health and social care
- Authors:
- EVANDROU Maria, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Social Policy, 21(4), October 1992, pp.489-523.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
- Place of publication:
- Cambridge
Studies equity (service provision based purely on an individual's needs for that service) in the distribution of primary health care and domiciliary care for elderly people. Finds that for a number of groups economic and demographic variables have a significant influence on the provision of services, and that in general neither service is distributed equitably.
Training the carers
- Author:
- EXLEY Jim
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Training and Development, 2(4), July 1992, pp.47-52.
- Publisher:
- PEPAR Publications
Describes the development and activities of the Midshire Trust, in particular courses for workers in residential and domiciliary care, day care and respite care projects.