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Your guide to indicator of relevant need in single shared assessments
- Author:
- GEORGE Mike
- Journal article citation:
- Care and Health Magazine, 15.02.05, 2005, pp.30-31.
- Publisher:
- Care and Health
Examines the background to a standardised system for assessing older people's needs which is currently being introduced in Scotland. The SSA-IoRN questionnaire consists of 12 questions covering: activities of daily living; personal care; food and drink preparation; mental well being and behaviour; and bowel management.
Hidden meanings
- Author:
- GEORGE Mike
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 6.2.97, 1997, pp.20-21.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Investigates the problem of recognising depression in older people.
Control or co-operation?
- Author:
- GEORGE Mike
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 9.8.01, 2001, pp.34-35.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Senior practitioner David Godfrey has been trying to improve the living conditioned of an older women with a personality disorder for the past seven years. The author reports on the difficulties of providing help to an unco-operative client while giving them a large amount of independence.
No safety at home
- Author:
- GEORGE Mike
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 10.8.00, 2000, pp.32-33.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
A sixty-year-old women who misuses alcohol is being regularly assaulted by her grandson in her own home as he looks to her for money to fund drug and alcohol use. Yet she has a history of refusing help. Mike George talks to Alison Beattie, the worker who has succeeded in supporting the woman.
Rights and duties
- Author:
- GEORGE Mike
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 1.6.00, 2000, pp.28-29.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
An older person with Alzheimer's disease is proving a danger to herself and others but refuses to leave her neglected home to go into residential care. The author talks to a social worker about the case and the difficulty of striking the right balance between clients' rights and her duty of care.
A sensitive mission
- Author:
- GEORGE Mike
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 28.1.00, 2000, pp.32-33.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
The author talks to members of an older people's team who performed a delicate balancing act to protect an elderly widow and her daughter with learning difficulties without upsetting family relationships.
Sliding into dementia
- Author:
- GEORGE Mike
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 7.5.98, 1998, pp.24-25.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Provides an account of the factors which influences an approved social worker's decisions about the care of an elderly man with dementia and his frail elderly wife.
Delivering housing adaptations
- Author:
- GEORGE Mike
- Journal article citation:
- Care and Health Magazine, 31, 12.3.03, 2003, pp.38-39.
- Publisher:
- Care and Health
Explains government guidance issued to social services department to help former patients be discharged to safe and supportive environments.
Community Care and Health (Scotland) Act 2002
- Author:
- GEORGE Mike
- Journal article citation:
- Care and Health Guide, 14, June 2002, pp.36-37.
- Publisher:
- Care and Health
Provides a guide to the new legislation which comes into force in Scotland in July.
Breaking the cycle
- Author:
- GEORGE Mike
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 24.8.00, 2000, pp.30-31.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
An older woman with mental health problems has been going back and forth from her house to hospital for many years. Now, she has been referred to an assertive outreach team. Her social worker explains how the team has attempted to improve the well being of the client.