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Home Care Services, Scotland 1999
- Author:
- SCOTLAND. Scottish Executive
- Publisher:
- Scotland. Scottish Executive
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 5p.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
Still playing for time
- Author:
- VALIOS Natalie
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 9.9.99, 1999, p.9.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Argues that even though its own report attacks "great inconsistencies" in social services charges, the government is evading action.
Recruitment crisis looms for home care
- Author:
- HUNTER Mark
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 19.8.99, 1999, pp.8-9.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Reports on how low rates of pay and competition from large stores have made attracting staff to work in the home care sector more difficult.
Help is at home
- Author:
- THOMPSON Audrey
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 18.3.99, 1999, p.27.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Looks at the award-winning Alcohol Recovery Project, which helps people who have a serious drink problem by supporting them in their homes.
Close care and companionship
- Author:
- BHANDARI Rena
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Dementia Care, 7(1), January 1999, pp.16-17.
- Publisher:
- Hawker
Reports on Homesharing - a scheme which allows vulnerable older people to continue living at home, under the watchful eyes of a young "lodger" - which was introduced into the UK in 1993 by the Community Care Trust.
Housing and support for people with learning difficulties: a local authority development programme
- Author:
- JOSEPH ROWNTREE FOUNDATION
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 4p.
- Place of publication:
- York
Promoting independence and supporting people in their own homes is a well-established priority for services for people with learning difficulties. Achievements nevertheless remain limited. Maurice Harker and Nigel King of the Housing and Support Partnership initiated a group development study with six local authorities supported by the Local Government Association and the Joseph Rowntree Foundation. The aim was to create more diverse housing and support. The study also reviewed the usefulness of this collaborative approach. Outlines the findings of the exercise.
Does hospital at home for palliative care facilitate death at home? Randomised controlled study
- Authors:
- GRANDE Gunn E, et al
- Journal article citation:
- British Medical Journal, 4.12.99, 1999, pp.1472-1475.
- Publisher:
- British Medical Association
This study evaluates the impact on place of death of hospital at home service for palliative care. Results suggest that in a locality with good provision of standard community care, hospital at home provision did not necessarily allow more patients to die at home.
Modernising home care at Dudley: the challenge of implementing a vision which embraces computers and people
- Author:
- -
- Journal article citation:
- Management Issues in Social Care, 6(3), July 1999, pp.19-25.
- Publisher:
- OLM Systems
This article, the first of a three part series on the partnership project that Dudley Direct Care Services launches in 1996, looks at the background to the project and the models of working in the Home Care service.
Counsel homes
- Author:
- GURNEY Paul
- Journal article citation:
- Health Service Journal, 15.7.99, 1999, p.29.
- Publisher:
- Emap Healthcare
Explains how a project offering home-based counselling by a primary care team has reduced their need for other services.
The French approach to community care
- Author:
- OGG Jim
- Journal article citation:
- Generations Review, 9(2), June 1999, pp.6-8.
- Publisher:
- British Society of Gerontology
As in Britain social policy concerning support to older people in France since the 1960s has developed to meet the challenges of an ageing population. During the 1970s community care services were developed at local level and a wide range of statutory and independent care sectors currently exist. Looks at the difficulties France has faced and how they have tried to reduce them.