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Carers
- Author:
- BECKER Saul
- Journal article citation:
- Research Matters, 2001, pp.28-33.
- Publisher:
- Community Care
A new initiative to support carers in the United States mirrors the national carers strategy in the UK. But there are important differences, such as the role of insurance in the provision of long term care. Looks at some recent research studies, in particular a study to understand how long-term care insurance for disabled older people can affect the lives of their working care givers.
Coping with long-term illness
- Author:
- BAKER Barbara
- Publisher:
- Sheldon Press
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 118p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This book gives both practical advice and a chance to explore feelings about long term illneses. It will help patients cope with difficult feelings, and deal with friends, family and the medical profession. It is also a guide of useful information.
Adults with intellectual disability in long-term care: a qualitative study
- Authors:
- CHAN Jeffrey B., et al
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Intellectual and Developmental Disability, 26(4), December 2001, pp.339-344.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Although respite care is intended to provide short-term and temporary relief for caregivers, it has unintentionally become a long-term placement for some individuals with developmental disability. This Australian study audited the files of 10 adults with developmental disability who had been living in three respite care units for 12-24 months. Several individual (e.g., challenging behaviours, severe disability, lack of communication skills) and family characteristics (e.g., single parent/carer status, poor health, and non-English speaking background) appeared consistent across the sample. The results suggest that there may be benefit in systematic planning for respite care, especially with older single-parent families who have adult children with high support needs, challenging behaviour, and severe communication impairment.
Getting personal
- Author:
- TRUELAND Jennifer
- Journal article citation:
- Health Service Journal, 11.10.01, 2001, pp.9-10.
- Publisher:
- Emap Healthcare
Reports on the tensions that are rising as the four UK nations get set to start payments for nursing care - and in Scotland, personal care for elderly people.
Care-as-service, care-as-relating, care-as-comfort: understanding nursing home residents' definitions of quality
- Authors:
- BOWERS Barbara J., FIBICH Barbara, JACOBSON Nora
- Journal article citation:
- Gerontologist, 41(4), August 2001, pp.539-545.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
This study explored how nursing home residents in the USA define quality of care. Data were collected through in-depth interviews and were analysed using grounded dimensional analysis. Residents defined quality in three ways: (a) Care-as-service residents focused on instrumental aspects of care. They assessed quality using the parameters of efficiency, competence, and value. (b) Care-as-relating residents emphasised the affective aspects of care, defining quality as care that demonstrated friendship and allowed them to show reciprocity with their caregivers. (c) Care-as-comfort residents defined quality as care that allowed them to maintain their physical comfort, a state that required minute and often repetitive adjustments in response to their bodily cues. Residents' perceptions of care quality have implications for long-term care practice. The integration of these perceptions into quality assurance instruments could improve the usefulness of tools designed to obtain resident input.
Will older people head for the hills?
- Author:
- McKAY Reg
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 8.2.01, 2001, pp.10-11.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
The Scottish Executive has promised free personal care for people with long term needs - both young and old. Asks if this will lead to an invasion of English people hoping to obtain services free of charge.
Good on paper
- Author:
- RICKFORD Frances
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 1.2.01, 2001, pp.18-19.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
The adoption white paper could be set to revolutionise the long-term care of many looked after children. The government has promoted it as radical, but the author questions whether this is the case.
Policy convergence: restructuring long-term care in Australia and the UK
- Authors:
- GIBSON Diane, MEANS Robin
- Journal article citation:
- Policy and Politics, 29(1), January 2001, pp.43-58.
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
Australia and the UK have historically had very different systems of long-term care for older people and others. Recent restructuring has led to interesting convergences of those systems, largely, the authors argue. because of the limited set of policy levers available to reformers in both countries.
The backbone of the long-term care workforce
- Author:
- NOELKER Linda S.
- Journal article citation:
- Generations, 25(1), Spring 2001, pp.85-91.
- Publisher:
- American Society on Aging
This article begins by reviewing recent research on informal caregivers and projected trends to explore the likelihood that information helpers will continue to be primary providers of long-term care in the future. Next, new research findings on sources of stress experienced by paraprofessional workers caring for elderly nursing homes residents and the impact stress on job satisfaction are presented. The article concludes with a review of interventions and supportive services to enhance the health and well-being of informal and paraprofessional caregivers.
Evaluation of the impact of a volunteer ombudsman program: the Rhode Island experience
- Author:
- FILINSON Rachel
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Elder Abuse and Neglect, 13(4), 2001, pp.1-19.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
The research assessed the impact of a major innovation in the Long-Term Care Ombudsman Programme that occurred in Rhode Island in 1997-the introduction of a volunteer component in which community members were trained and certified as advocates for residents in long-term care. Based on reports to the state ombudsman office, the findings indicated that the placement of volunteer ombudsman was associated with the generation of more complaints and more serious complaints about the facilities in which they were placed, some of which could not be resolved despite the greater intensity of interventions applied in these cases. Data derived from nursing home inspections revealed a negative and significant correlation between the length of time a volunteer had been at a facility and the number of deficiencies. (Copies of this article are available from: Haworth Document Delivery Centre Haworth Press Inc., 10 Alice Street Binghamton, NY 13904-1580)