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Meeting the needs of older people with mental handicaps
- Author:
- CHESELDINE Sally
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Handicap, 17(3), September 1989, pp.96-100.
- Publisher:
- British Institute of Mental Handicap
Describes experiments in groupwork to give practical help in adapting to changed circumstances.
Doubly disadvantaged
- Author:
- HONG C.S.
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 9.8.89, 1989, pp.69-70.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
Reality orientation work with elderly people with mental handicap.
Dark incontinence: the last taboo; the psychological aspects of incontinence
- Author:
- BRITISH PSYCHOLOGICAL SOCIETY
- Publisher:
- British Psychological Society
- Publication year:
- 1989
- Pagination:
- 12p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Discusses the extent of the problem; costs; continence services; incontinence in women, the elderly, and mentally handicapped; public awareness and environmental effects on continence.
The mentally retarded aged: implications for social work practice
- Authors:
- KAUFMAN A.V., DeWEAVER K., GLICKEN M.
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Gerontological Social Work, 14(1/2), 1989, pp.93-11O.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
Presents models of case management for social work with clients in institutions and in the community.
Bringing home the bacon
- Author:
- PHILPOT Terry
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 16.11.89, 1989, pp.21-24.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
High levels of public spending and widespread decentralisation have been the keys to Denmark's community care policies.
Griffiths 'gets going'
- Author:
- HEGINBOTHAM C.
- Journal article citation:
- Social Services Insight, 21.3.89, 1989, p.17.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Publishing
The NHS Review's proposals for acute hospitals moving to NHS Trust status could well be a model for services for the elderly, mentally ill and mentally handicapped in keeping with the Griffiths Report.
Performance review in local government: a handbook for auditors and local authorities; social services
- Author:
- AUDIT COMMISSION
- Publisher:
- HMSO Books
- Publication year:
- 1989
- Pagination:
- 55p., tables, bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- London
Provides an introduction to service provision, an outline of current management issues and a guide to performance review for each of the following groups : children, elderly, mentally handicapped, mentally ill and physically handicapped.
Personal social services local authority statistics: adult training centres for mentally handicapped people and day centres for mentally ill, elderly...at 31/3/88. England
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 1989
- Pagination:
- 49p., tables.
- Place of publication:
- London
Social housing and the social services
- Author:
- SPICKER Paul
- Publisher:
- Longman/Institute of Housing
- Publication year:
- 1989
- Pagination:
- 149p.,tables,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Harlow
Examines the relationship between social housing and other social services. Aims to give housing officers and trainee housing officers an insight into the structure and functions of social services and the needs and problems of various client groups, including the elderly, disabled, mentally ill and mentally handicapped.
Last things: social work with the dying and bereaved
- Editor:
- PHILPOT Terry
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Publishing/Community Care
- Publication year:
- 1989
- Pagination:
- 131p., diags.
- Place of publication:
- Wallington
Offers a multi-disciplinary perspective to assist social workers to play their part in the care of the dying and the bereaved. Covers the elderly, mentally handicapped, suicide, and stillbirth.