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Gaining access to social services: general services teams and elderly disabled people
- Authors:
- CAMERON Elaine, BADGER Frances, EVERS Helen
- Publisher:
- University of Birmingham. Health Services Research Centre
- Publication year:
- 1989
- Pagination:
- 25p., tables.
- Place of publication:
- Birmingham
Describes research into the circumstances in which old and disabled people gained access to social and health services.
Network variables as determinants of the elderly entering adult residential care facilities
- Author:
- BEAR Mary
- Journal article citation:
- Ageing and Society, 9(2), June 1989, pp.149-163.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
A research study based on social network analysis and labelling theories to explain referrals decisions.
Residential care for elderly people: characteristics of patients admitted to residential and nursing home care from hospital
- Author:
- POWER William E.
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Social Work, 19(1), February 1989, pp.39-51.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
A study of admissions showed breakdown in caregiver arrangements to be a major reason for entry into care.
Elderly persons homes admissions study: report of a working group
- Author:
- GLOUCESTERSHIRE. Social Services Department
- Publisher:
- Gloucestershire. Social Services Department
- Publication year:
- 1989
- Pagination:
- 56p., tables, bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Gloucester
Presents and discusses the results of a study designed to identify any further developments in the use of services in the community that could reduce the need for admission to residential care.
Better services for older people: the report of a Practice Exchange project to identify how research findings can inform good practice.
- Editor:
- PAYNE Chris
- Publisher:
- National Institute for Social Work. Practice and Development Exchange
- Publication year:
- 1989
- Pagination:
- 109p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Improving the quality of residential care for the elderly : the admission process, residential life, quality assurance, planning and managing change, residents' rights, and a charter of residents' rights.