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An offer they can refuse
- Author:
- HATFIELD Barbara
- Journal article citation:
- Care Weekly, 27.1.94, 1994, pp.10-11.
Reports on a survey of carers of people with dementia. A significant number indicated that although day care had been offered it had been refused either because the older person went once and then refused to go again or because they refused to go to day care at all.
Supporting older people with dementia: the service needs of informal carers
- Authors:
- HATFIELD Barbara, HUXLEY Peter, MOHAMAD Hadi, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Social Services Research, 4, 1994, pp.10-21.
- Publisher:
- Social Services Research Group
The direction of policy for adults with continuing care needs over the past decade has resulted in a marked shift from hospital to community provision. This shift has been accompanied by an increasing emphasis on non-institutional care, i.e. care in the person's home as a priority. The principle source of care for older people therefore becomes the immediate family. Looks at the service needs of informal carers of older people with dementia.