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Age and citizenship
- Author:
- THOMPSON Neil
- Journal article citation:
- Elders the Journal of Care and Practice, 1(1), January 1992, pp.31-41.
Discusses the concept of ageism and its impact on the provision of services.
Empowering older people: beyond the care model
- Authors:
- THOMPSON Neil, THOMPSON Sue
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Social Work, 1(1), April 2001, pp.61-76.
- Publisher:
- Sage
This article explores models and strategies for developing empowering forms of social work practice with older people. Social work with older people has strong roots in a predominantly medical model in which the primary objective is to ensure that care is provided. While social work with other client groups has made major steps forward in developing less medicalized approaches, the work undertaken with older people has seen far less progress. This article examines the differences between a care model and an empowerment model, identifies some of the barriers standing in the way of movement from one to the other and considers ways of responding to such barriers. The authors identify strategies for developing empowering forms of practice.
The social basis of loss and grief: age, disability and sexuality
- Authors:
- BEVAN Denise, THOMPSON Neil
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Social Work, 3(2), August 2003, pp.179-194.
- Publisher:
- Sage
Reviews the area of the relationship between loss and grief and the less well-documented areas of discrimination in relation to age, disability and sexuality. Explores these relationships with a view to establish the importance of developing a broad-based anti-discriminatory practice in this area.
Age and dignity: working with older people
- Author:
- THOMPSON Neil
- Publisher:
- Arena
- Publication year:
- 1995
- Pagination:
- 155p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Aldershot
Offers a blend of theory and practice to help staff working with older people to achieve high standards of practice, taking as a starting point ageism and developing anti-ageist services.