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Predicting transitions in the use of informal and professional care by older adults
- Authors:
- GEERLINGS Sandra, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Ageing and Society, 25(1), January 2005, pp.111-130.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
To prepare the care system for a rising population of older people it is important to understand what factors predict the use of care. This paper reports a study of transitions in use of informal and professional care using Andersen-Newman models of the predictive predisposing, enabling and need factors. It draws on Longitudinal Ageing Study Amsterdam data on care use and contextual factors. Data were collected at 3-yearly intervals from a random sex- and age-stratified population-based sample of adults aged 55-85. In summary, findings for those who initially did not receive care were that almost one-third received some kind 3 years later, most provided by informal carers. Need factors were important predictors of most transitions, and predisposing and enabling factors, such as age, partner status and income also played a role. On the relationship between informal and professional care, evidence was found for both 'compensatory processes (informal substitutes for professional care) and 'bridging processes' (informal care facilitates professional care). In view of the increasing discrepancy between the demand for professional care and supply, the significant impact of predisposing and enabling factors offers opportunities for intervention.
Improving communication between hospitals and care homes: the development of a daily living plan for older people
- Authors:
- REED Jan, STANLEY David
- Journal article citation:
- Health and Social Care in the Community, 11(4), July 2003, pp.356-363.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Describes a practice development project that produced a user-led daily living plan, developed in partnership with older people and staff from health and social care settings and designed to facilitate communication of the daily living preferences of older people, ensuring that continuity of care and support could be maintained and their future care planned on an individualised basis when they move from hospital to a care home. In developing and implementing the plan more effective person-centred communication between hospitals and care homes was achieved, and some of the hospital staff's ideas about care homes changed.
Care plans, pathways, people: a personalised approach to care
- Author:
- SCHOFIELD Joanne
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Dementia Care, 11(4), July 2003, pp.16-17.
- Publisher:
- Hawker
Through the example of care for Mr X, the author describes how the development and use of Personalised Care Pathways can help professionals to treat 'patients' with dementia as people.
Bringing spirituality into care planning
- Author:
- BRANDON David
- Journal article citation:
- Working with Older People, 5(3), October 2001, pp.23-25.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Research on depression and nursing suggests that the caring professions are losing a sense of meaning and fulfilment in their daily work. Looks at the importance spirituality as a way of making meaningful connections with service users.
Who cares plans: a guide to care planning in homes for older people
- Authors:
- COLEMAN Valerie, REGAN Dominic, SMITH Jef
- Publisher:
- Counsel and Care
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 84p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Practical text on care planning for older people in residential care. The focus is on how an individual resident's life can be a positive and enriching experience.
Must something be done?
- Author:
- MACKIE Jane
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Dementia Care, 5(1), January 1997, pp.21-22.
- Publisher:
- Hawker
Care management should be person-centred, but often it is driven by the needs and anxieties of others. The author recommends that emphasising client well-being balances these worries and helps to focus the care plan from a client-centred perspective.
Creating a new, individualised service
- Authors:
- OYEBODE Jan, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Dementia Care, 4(5), September 1996, pp.18-19.
- Publisher:
- Hawker
Many changes have taken place in mental health services for older adults in South Birmingham which has provided the opportunity for service providers to rethink and revitalise their approach to continuing care. This paper describes Personal Care Planning, a care approach for those with dementia which draws together past and present information about each person, enabling staff with family carers to devise appropriate and highly individualised care.
Care planning in residential care for older people in Scotland: a research study
- Author:
- MALLINSON Ian
- Publisher:
- Avebury
- Publication year:
- 1996
- Pagination:
- 175p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Aldershot
Study examining individual care planning in long term residential care for older people in Scotland. Explores issues arising out of an initial survey of the literature. Goes on to look at the topic in 2 stages. Stage 1 consists of an audit of residential care establishments throughout Scotland, exploring the context of care planning and structures for care planning. Stage 2 considers the actions within these structures and focuses on practices carried out within 3 individual case study establishments. Examines problems inherent in these structures and makes recommendations.
Care in the community: individual care planning and case management
- Author:
- RENSHAW Judy
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Social Work, 18, 1988, pp.79-1O5.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
Defines case-management, describes American practice and compares it with the use of workers and of individual programme planning.
Care management in practice: on the use of talk and text in gerontological social work
- Authors:
- CEDERSUND Elisabet, OLAISON Anna
- Journal article citation:
- International Journal of Social Welfare, 19(3), July 2010, pp.339-347.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
This article focuses on the assessment processes older people undergo to gain access to home care, an assessment which often falls within the scope of gerontological social work. The process involves meetings between care managers, acting as social workers, and older people in their homes to reach decisions about their home care. The article describes a study of these meetings between care manager and citizens in one type of welfare organisation – the municipal elder care system in Sweden. The article highlights how older people’s claims are dealt with in the processing of home care applications. Twenty encounters between social workers and older people were studied using discourse analysis. The findings showed that discursive practices are part of the routine when the applications are processed, and that the application handling follows an agenda-bound pattern that is visible in the encounters. The authors suggest that within these standardised procedures, verbal discourse is embedded in routines that also include the use of texts, but, however, within this institutional order there is also an important element of negotiation between the parties. In conclusion, the authors claim that the encounters include a negotiated order that does not exist on its own, but is achieved through the on-going interaction.