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Community care assessments: language and older people - hearing is not always understanding
- Author:
- BARRETT David
- Journal article citation:
- Elders the Journal of Care and Practice, 2(3), August 1993, pp.5-10.
Considers whether those undertaking assessments of older people perceive what is being said to them, and whether they interpret the meanings correctly.
At risk - of what?
- Author:
- BOND Meg
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 10.11.93, 1993, pp.56-58.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
Care workers may underestimate an older person's abilities by focusing on disabilities - describes how an 81-year-old-woman's independence was enhanced by emphasising her strengths.
Community care assessments: a brief word on language and older people
- Author:
- BARRETT David
- Journal article citation:
- Generations Review, 3(2), June 1993, pp.4-5.
- Publisher:
- British Society of Gerontology
Analysis of verbal language and its everyday usage can lead to a more enlightened view of the complexity of the community care assessment task. Explores some of the linguistic issues and arguments, making the connection with older people and their community care assessors. The latter is then explored in the context of some of the current processes and principles that underpin the present welfare state. When looked at from this perspective assessments are remarkably complex interactions - considers whether they are recognised as such.
Hanging onto freedom
- Author:
- MARCHANT Catriona
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 1.4.93, 1993, p.10.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Reports on practice guidelines published by the voluntary organisation Counsel and Care, funded by the Mental Health Foundation which offers advice and help to staff on risk-taking in residential settings.
Process and preference: assessment of older people for institutional care
- Authors:
- SAMUEL Elaine, et al
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Scottish Office. Central Research Unit
- Publication year:
- 1993
- Pagination:
- 127p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
Assessing the needs of elderly people: challenges old and new
- Author:
- RICHARDS Sally
- Publisher:
- University of Portsmouth. School of Social and Historical Studies. Social Servic
- Publication year:
- 1993
- Pagination:
- 9p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Portsmouth
Discusses issues around defining and assessing the needs of older people.
Defining needs, defining systems: a critical analysis
- Author:
- DILL Ann
- Journal article citation:
- Gerontologist, 33(4), August 1993, pp.453-460.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
Examines the model of need assessment commonly used in social service programmes for older people in America; a model defining need as an individual attribute which can be measured in a scientific way. However, if an individual's expressions of need or self assessment cannot be framed by the forms or professional assessments that are used, information is lost and the individual's needs as perceived by the assessor are distorted. Gives a case study to demonstrate the consequences of this model for clients, staff and ageing programmes.
Keeping score
- Author:
- UTTING David
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 26.8.93, 1993, p.19.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Describes a new way to assess and cost care packages for frail elderly people. The dependency scoring method not only addresses the basic questions of mobility, feeding, continence and mental awareness, but also encompasses less tangible factors such as insecurity and attention seeking. The main contribution of the scoring is seen as enabling continuous monitoring of people's needs, although scores are used in preparing care plans for new residents as well.
Assessment of dementia patients and their families: an ecological-family-centred approach
- Author:
- MONAHAN Deborah J.
- Journal article citation:
- Health and Social Work, 18(2), May 1993, pp.123-131.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
Demand for assessment and treatment of dementia patients and their families in the USA is expected to increase substantially by the end of the decade. Offers a guide to social work practice in the assessment of dementia patients and their families using an ecological-family-centred model of practice. A case presentation illustrated how to apply the model whilst incorporating ethnically sensitive practice principles. The model organized complex assessment issues that often arise when working with families of dementia patients and illustrates the significance of cultural diversity in case practice.
Correlates of everyday memory among residents of Part III homes
- Authors:
- COCKBURN Janet, SMITH Philip T.
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Clinical Psychology, 31(1), February 1993, pp.75-77.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Performance on the Rivermead Behavioural Memory Test of 43 residents of Part III homes was compared with performance on Raven's Coloured Progressive Matrices and the National Audit Reading Test. Health, medication, self-care and social activity were also measured. Results show that although Raven's score was the best predictor of memory test performance, it had a high refusal rate. Age was not a significant predictor of the overall memory test score but results were complicated by age of entry into Part III, with older people performing better on some items. Medication, in particular drugs acting upon the central nervous system, enhanced performance on some items.