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Caring for people with Huntington's disease (HD)
- Author:
- SHELDON Jan
- Journal article citation:
- Elders the Journal of Care and Practice, 3(4), December 1994, pp.21-27.
Huntington's disease, also referred to as Huntington's Chorea is a progressive neurological disease that affects cognitive, behavioural and physical functions. Gives the history of the disease, identifies who is at risk from it and states what symptoms arise as a result of having the disease. Concludes by looking at the type of care available for the person with HD.
Ageing in Jamaica - some impressions
- Author:
- GRAHAM Sara
- Journal article citation:
- Social Policy Research Centre Newsletter, 51, December 1994, pp.1-3.
- Publisher:
- University of New South Wales. Social Policy Research Centre
Outlines how older people in Jamaica are supported by social services. Care relies heavily on the good will of individual members of the community.
Ageing and consumer culture: will we reap in whirlwind?
- Author:
- BLAIKIE Andrew
- Journal article citation:
- Generations Review, 4(4), December 1994, pp.5-7.
- Publisher:
- British Society of Gerontology
Discusses changing attitudes towards ageing and looks at how the consumer culture is capitalising on the need for people to cope with the transitions of mid- and later-life.
One simple knock
- Author:
- RICKFORD Frances
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 22.12.94, 1994, p.10.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Reports on a new team in Brent for vulnerable older people.
Stocking up on Christmas cheer
- Author:
- WERTHEIMER Alison
- Journal article citation:
- Care Weekly, 8.12.94, 1994, p.14.
Christmas can be difficult for many people. Suggests ways in which staff can reduce the stress on themselves and their clients.
Four into one will go...
- Author:
- TOOTH John
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Dementia Care, 2(6), November 1994, pp.15-17.
- Publisher:
- Hawker
The ADARDS nursing home in Tasmania provides domestic scale care for the most disturbed people with dementia at two-thirds of the cost of a psychiatric hospital bed. Explains the thinking behind the project's success.
Mores and morals
- Author:
- JONES Helen
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 23.11.94, 1994, pp.54-58.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
Discusses the influence of Victorian values on the formation of the older generation's moral code and urges nurses to be more aware of older people's sexuality.
Greying Australia and social policy education
- Author:
- GEORGE Janet
- Journal article citation:
- International Social Work, 37(4), October 1994, pp.347-355.
- Publisher:
- Sage
Educating students for social work with older people is an increasing imperative, in view of recent demographic and economic changes affecting their wellbeing. Developing a curriculum in social policy demands choices about an appropriate conceptual framework, flexibility in content, and a process which facilitates the understanding by young students of the ways in which older people experience social policy. This paper reflects on these issues and evaluates a problem-based learning strategy as an integrative approach which potentially links policy with practice and with people's experience.
Empowerment and community care for the elderly
- Author:
- CROSSMAN Robert O'Neill
- Journal article citation:
- Voluntary Voice, 88, October 1994, p.9.
- Publisher:
- London Voluntary Service Council
A network of advocates is being built up across London by the Greater London Forum for the Elderly.
Elderly patients and the Mental Health Act 1983
- Authors:
- GILMORE C., et al
- Journal article citation:
- International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 9(10), October 1994, pp.809-818.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Reports a retrospective casenote review which was carried out in Southport on all patients over 65 years of age who were detained under the Mental Health Act 1983 during the first six years of its operation. There were 132 episodes of detention affecting 120 patients. 53% were for organic illness and 47% for functional illness. the organically ill were detained most commonly because the carer was no longer able to cope or, for those living alone, because of self-neglect. The functionally ill were most commonly detained in the interests of their health alone. The majority of patients with dementia were not discharged to their previous address after being detained but to residential care. Twenty-seven per cent of the whole sample died within a year of being detained, a rate higher than in the general population.