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Enhancing independence: the effectiveness of re-ablement provision in South Worcestershire
- Authors:
- LE MESURIER Nick, CUMELLA Stuart
- Journal article citation:
- Managing Community Care, 7(4), August 1999, pp.27-32.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
The importance of rehabilitation in promoting independence is recognised in current policy directives on the provision of care to older and disabled people, but has not yet been widely established within the spectrum of services offered by local authorities. Describes how a Worcestershire-based re-ablement service presents an effective model of joint working to provide comprehensive multidisciplinary assessments and a therapeutic intervention service aimed reducing dependency and promoting service users' choice and control over their care programmes.
Re-designing health and social care for older people: multi-skill case teams in primary care
- Authors:
- CUMELLA Stuart, LE MESURIER Nick
- Journal article citation:
- Managing Community Care, 7(6), December 1999, pp.17-24.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
This article reviews the evidence on the benefits of innovative practice-based social work, in the context of attempts to improve multi-agency collaboration through structural change, procedural regulation and process redesign. It concludes that the model can generate improvements in productivity and in responses to customer needs.