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Positive outcome?
- Author:
- HENWOOD Melanie
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 26.9.02, 2002, p.40,41.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Describes the Department of Health-commissioned research programme, Outcomes of Social Care for Adults (OSCA).
“Time is more important than anything else”: tensions of time in the home care of older adults in Ireland
- Authors:
- MCDONALD Anne, et al
- Journal article citation:
- International Journal of Care and Caring, 3(4), 2019, pp.501-515.
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
This article explores perceptions of time reported by service users, family carers, care workers, nurses, social workers and agency managers across home support services for older adults in Ireland. The findings are organised around: time spent waiting for care; time spent ‘processing’ care across primary and secondary care boundaries; time and person-centred care; and time, technology and communication. Time emerges as a problematic aspect of all processes and structures around formal home care, suggesting that addressing issues around time is central to resolving systemic challenges. Greater flexibility in time allocation and effective communication among stakeholders could improve experiences of care. (Publisher abstract)
Dementia cafes: recommendations from interviews with informal carers
- Authors:
- AKHTAR Farrukh, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Working with Older People, 21(4), 2017, pp.236-242.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Purpose: Dementia cafes (also known as Alzheimer’s or memory cafes) have been running in the UK since 2000. The purpose of this paper is to report on the recommendations from recent research that interviewed family carers on their experiences of using the cafes. Design/methodology/approach: The research was carried out in cafes in and around London, and focussed on informal, unpaid carers’ experiences of using them. In total, 11 carers from five different dementia cafes were interviewed, using semi-structured questionnaires. The results were thematically analysed. Findings: The findings showed that carers had an overwhelming appreciation of the cafes and what they offered, but several of the findings led to the recommendations about the recruitment and training of cafe co-ordinators; how cafes present themselves and their services and how they can offer dedicated support to informal carers. Originality/value: These recommendations will be of use to cafe organisers and commissioners, especially considering the dearth of information currently available in this area. (Publisher abstract)
What next for Shared Lives? Family-based support as a potential option for older people
- Authors:
- BROOKES Nadia, CALLAGHAN Lisa
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Care Services Management, 7(3), 2013, pp.87-94.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
With an ageing population and limited resources the challenge for policy makers and practitioners is how best to provide for the care and support needs of older people. This article draws on findings from two studies, a scoping study of the personalisation of care services and another which aimed to generate evidence about the potential use of family-based support schemes (Shared Lives, SL) for certain groups of older people. Forty-three schemes participated in a survey to gather information about services provided and the extent to which this included older people and their carers, and six staffs were interviewed across two schemes about issues for expanding provision for older people in their local areas. It was evident that SL schemes were already supporting a number of older people and there was support for expansion from both schemes and local authorities. Adequate resources, awareness raising, management commitment, and a pool of suitable carers would be needed to support any expansion effort. There is also still a need for SL to be more widely known and understood by care managers if it is to be considered part of mainstream provision for older people (Publisher abstract)
Interpersonal influences between the care provider's burnout and the older care recipient's quality of life
- Authors:
- CHEUNG Chau-Kiu, CHOW Esther Oi-Wah
- Journal article citation:
- Administration in Social Work, 35(4), September 2011, pp.425-445.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
Burnout, referring to exhaustion, stress and loss of accomplishment in work, is prevalent among professionals providing care to frail older adults. This study examined the reciprocal influences of older adults' quality of life and their care providers' burnout, including whether burnout of a professional care provider or informal caregiver has a negative effect on the older care recipient's quality of life and whether the older care recipient's quality of life has a negative effect on the burnout of professional or informal carers. The study surveyed a random sample of 232 older care recipients in Hong Kong and their primary informal caregivers and professional care providers at 2 stages, with 1 year between surveys. The results showed that a professional's burnout, but not an informal caregiver's burnout, at stage 1 had a negative effect on the older person's quality of life a year later, and that an older person's quality of life (low physical dependence) had a negative effect on a professional care provider's, but not an informal caregiver's, burnout at stage 2. The authors discuss the interpersonal influences between the Hong Kong Chinese care recipients' quality of life and burnout of professional caregivers, and the implications for practice.
What is best for a couple with dementia
- Author:
- -
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 3.11.11, 2011, pp.26-27.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
The case of John, a man with dementia who also has physical and mobility problems, and whose wife is currently struggling to care for him at home is discussed. John's wife Shelia is also developing dementia. After weighing up the risks, John decides to move into a nursing home and his wife decides to continue to live at home with support from the hospice.
Family influence on caregiver resistance, efficacy, and use of services in family elder care
- Authors:
- KEITH Pat M., WACKER Robbyn, COLLINS Susan M.
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Gerontological Social Work, 52(4), May 2009, pp.377-400.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
The purpose of this study was to explore family influence, and particularly the extent to which primary caregivers' relationships to formal services were influenced by their perceptions about other family members' opinions about outreach for formal assistance outside the family, to investigate how concern about family opinion affected caregivers' resistance to use of services and their efficacy in learning about in obtaining services, and to examine whether opinions of attributed to family, caregiver efficacy and caregiver resistance to service use predicted actual use of services. Data from questionnaires completed by 224 people engaged in informal care of older people in the community in a mostly nonmetropolitan county of the western United States were analysed. The results showed that family influence on caregivers had a consistent, important influence on behaviour and views of caregivers, and that caregiver resistance and perceived family resistance to use of services were related to low caregiver self-efficacy. The authors conclude that as education influenced resistance a useful intervention would be to provide caregivers with information about available services and criteria for their use, and that the influence of families on primary caregiver decisions about care should be taken into account when practitioners present available options for formal support. They suggest that researchers need to obtain more systematic data from care recipients and selected family members about their resistance to use of services.
Reflections on experiences of involving users and carers in the work of the Faculty of Old Age Psychiatry
- Authors:
- ONG Yong Lock, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Quality in Ageing, 8(2), June 2007, pp.45-49.
- Publisher:
- Pier Professional
- Place of publication:
- Brighton
The Faculty of Old Age Psychiatry, Royal College of Psychiatrists, has been involving users and carers in its work since 2002. The model that has been developed involves regular meetings of a consumer group, which was set up in partnership with the Alzheimer's Society and Age Concern, and which meets with the officers of the faculty. This development is in line with a number or recent policy initiatives and has had considerable influence on the work of the faculty. This article looks at the history and development of the group.
Being 'in control' - individual budgets for older people in West Sussex
- Author:
- GOLDINGHAM Jane
- Journal article citation:
- Working with Older People, 10(3), September 2006, pp.19-23.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
The author reports on the West Sussex pilot, the first of 13 pilot sites across England, which is introducing individual budgets for people using care services. The article considers the policy context and explores some of the potentials for older people together with some of the challenges surrounding the implementation. It also contains two case studies.
Seeds of success
- Author:
- SNOW Kevin
- Journal article citation:
- Voluntary Voice, 129, November 1998, p.7.
- Publisher:
- London Voluntary Service Council
Looks at the organisation Sixty Plus Support which supports older people with health and/or social care needs. Explains how it is standard policy to recruit volunteers amongst people with unusual backgrounds, often from people who would be categorised as consumers of services.