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Lifting the depression
- Author:
- MANTHORPE Jill
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 11.05.07, 2007, pp.42-43,45.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
The author examines a review of studies on suicide and older people, and draws out the implications for practitioners.
Older people's involvement
- Author:
- MANTHORPE Jill
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 5.7.07, 2007, p.36, 38.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
The author looks at research which aimed to find out how older people in London are being involved in the development of council policies and services. The study identifies the advantages and drawbacks of different models and points to the great diversity of older people, whose views, aspirations and experiences are likely to vary widely.
An inspector calls: adult protection in the context of the NSFOP review
- Authors:
- MANTHORPE Jill, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Adult Protection, 9(1), March 2007, pp.4-14.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
This article reports on the findings of the inspections and consultations undertaken as part of the evaluation of the National Service Framework for Older People. It focuses on what was found out about the implementation of adult protection systems, by synthesising the inspectors' findings, drawing on older people's comments in meetings and interviews concerning care in hospitals, as an illustration, and by reporting the results from a survey. Together these sources of information revealed that adult protection systems are in place, and that the majority of older people say that they know whom they can report concerns, but that older people and their families weigh up the decision to make complaints carefully. Questions are raised about the interface between adult protection and concerns about dignity and quality of hospital care.
Two bodies one voice
- Authors:
- MANTHORPE Jill, ILIFFE Steve
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 31.01.07, 2007, pp.30-31.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
The article identifies reasons why social workers working with older people and their carers should be aware of new guidelines on dementia. The joint NICE/SCIE guidelines are an invaluable source of evidence and advice, but will also be used by inspectors, service auditors, stakeholders, voluntary groups and individuals to assess the quality of care given by social workers.
FACS or Fiction? The impact of the policy Fair Access to Care Services on social care assessments of older visually impaired people
- Authors:
- CHARLES Nigel, MANTHORPE Jill
- Journal article citation:
- Practice: Social Work in Action, 19(2), June 2007, pp.143-157.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
The Department of Health's Fair Access to Care Services (FACS) policy initiative was intended to achieve a greater degree of equity and consistency in the assessment and provision of social care services to adults in England. This article reports on the impact of this policy some 18 months after it was implemented. It is based on interviews carried out in one local authority with a sample of six practitioners specialising in the assessment of the social care needs of visually impaired people. The findings from this small-scale study suggest that FACS has not made substantial difference to the social care assessments of older visually impaired people by specialist assessors. At least four factors seem to have rendered FACS largely ineffective in the reported practice of this one group of social work staff and these reflect their relative autonomy. These are an absence of FACS training for practitioners, collective agreement by practitioners about what they should do in practice, an ability and willingness by practitioners to use professional discretion, and the ambiguity of purpose at the heart of the FACS policy.