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Reviewing respite services: some lessons from the literature
- Authors:
- COTTERILL Lesley, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 12(5), November 1997, pp.775-788.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Although the community care reforms raised the profile of respite services for adults with learning disabilities, little is known about the character of respite provision in Britain. This lack of information is compounded by the way the literature about respite is dispersed across user groups and is often restricted to particular types of services or to specific localities. Highlight some of the key issues associated with respite, and draws on a wide range of literature. Argues that a break with the traditional notion of respite as primarily a way to relieve carer burden is long overdue.
Election '97: the fight to vote
- Author:
- GEORGE Mike
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 13.3.97, 1997, pp.18-19.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
If more users of social services voted at election time, they could damage majorities in marginal seats. But a series of obstacles means they may face a struggle to use their vote. Asks what social services can do to help.
Health gain through screening - users' and carers' perspectives of health care: developing primary health care services for people with an intellectual disability
- Authors:
- MARTIN D.M., et al
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Intellectual and Developmental Disability, 22(4), December 1997, pp.241-249.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Describes Primary Health Care Project for People with an Intellectual Disability which began early in 1995 in Northern Birmingham to facilitate equal access to health care services for adults with an intellectual disability, and to establish a health screening protocol. The aim of the study was to identify the experiences, expectations and opinions of the people using these services. The implications of this methodology and its findings are discussed.
Crisis in the human services: national and international issues; selected papers from a conference held at the University of Cambridge, September 1996
- Editor:
- ADAMS Robert
- Publisher:
- University of Lincolnshire and Humberside. Schools of Social Policy and Social S
- Publication year:
- 1997
- Pagination:
- 424p.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- Kingston upon Hull
Includes papers on: lawyers and social work serving the poor; research on low income women in Brazil; ethical issues in community care practice; research in the context of human services in crisis; boundary crossing in community care; citizen participation models; schizophrenia in a cultural context; the paradigm shift in the delivery of public services and the crisis of professionalism; partnerships with service users - considerations for research; education and labour; methodological issues for the qualitative health researcher of diaspora communities; elderly women prisoners; evaluating for empowerment; solving the problem of health care costs; services for people with learning difficulties; deinstitutionalisation policies in Queensland; debt and budget deficit reduction policies in the USA; the impact of constitutional change in South Africa on social work services; new trends in human services in America; health promotion in Cuba; the anti-rape movement on campus; protecting children against sexual abuse; distance learning; developing human services managers through work based learning; multidisciplinary services in primary care; partnerships with users; teamwork across disciplines; the attack on social work in New York hospitals and the fight back; government guidance in the construction of the social work profession; the provision of psychosocial care after major incidents; and crisis, change and innovation in social work education.