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Palliative care of older people
- Author:
- BLACK Joanna
- Journal article citation:
- Working with Older People, 11(3), September 2007, pp.21-23.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
The author describes two contrasting accounts of patients experiences of palliative care at an older age.
The role of assistive technology in achieving dignity, equality and respect
- Author:
- FAIFE Dyllis
- Journal article citation:
- Working with Older People, 11(2), June 2007, pp.20-23.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
The author looks at how assistive technology can promote and maintain a person's dignity and respect if handled correctly. She draws on her experience of developing a telecare service in Norfolk social services. The article includes three short case studies.
Take extra-care
- Authors:
- SUMMERS Jo, GRAINGER Joanne
- Journal article citation:
- Connect, 27, Spring 2007, pp.17-18.
- Publisher:
- Homeless Link
The authors give two views on how extra-care housing can be a successful option for older homeless people. The article also includes a short case study.
No wonder she's down
- Author:
- -
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 18.01.07, 2007, pp.36-37.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
This case study reports on the case of an older woman who has lot two husbands and a daughter in just two years. The practice panel looks at how services could help her to cope with her depression.
Reflections on Hurricane Katrina by older adults: three case studies in resiliency and survivorship
- Author:
- GREENE Roberta R.
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment, 16(4), 2007, pp.57-74.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
The case studies are part of a larger study that explored how governmental and non-governmental agencies in Texas provided health and social care support for evacuees from New Orleans. They illustrate the basic concepts of risk and resilience theory, namely: risk; vulnerability; protective factor; buffer; and resilience. The narrative themes of the case studies echo those found in studies of survival strategies in other traumatic contexts: resolving to live; obtaining food and shelter; choosing survival strategies; keeping family ties connecting with the community; and giving testimony. The implications for social work practice are discussed.
Older and out
- Author:
- SNELL Janet
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 4.10.07, 2007, pp.28-29.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Older people with learning disabilities are having their hard won independence taken from them as they reach 65. This article look at the importance of providing services to older people with learning disabilities. It also includes a short case study.
Promoting older peoples' participation in activity, whose responsibility? A case study of the response of health, local government and voluntary organizations
- Authors:
- GOODMAN C., et al
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Interprofessional Care, 21(5), October 2007, pp.515-528.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
The benefits for older people of participating in regular activity are well documented. This paper focuses on how publicly funded community-based organizations enable older people to engage in physical activity. The research questions were: (i) What activity promotion schemes/initiatives exist for older people? (ii) Who has responsibility for them, how are they funded and organized and what evidence exists of interagency working? (iii) Who are the older people that participate? (iv) What are the perceived and measurable outcomes of the initiatives identified? To establish the type and range of provision for older people in a sector of London, the strategies and information about existing activity promoting schemes of inner city health, local government and voluntary organizations were reviewed. Key informants were then interviewed to establish the rationale, achievements and different schemes. One hundred and nine activity-promoting initiatives for older people were identified. Most were provided within an environment of short-term funding and organizational upheaval and reflected eclectic theoretical and ideological approaches. The findings demonstrate: (i) the need for organizations to apply evidence about what attracts and sustains older people's participation in physical activity, and (ii) the need to develop funded programmes that build on past achievements, have explicit outcomes and exploit opportunities for cross agency working.
Monitoring people with dementia - controlling or liberating?
- Author:
- PRICE Celia
- Journal article citation:
- Quality in Ageing, 8(3), September 2007, pp.41-44.
- Publisher:
- Pier Professional
- Place of publication:
- Brighton
In the discussion about electronic assistive technology, the most emotive reactions are provoked when it is suggested that technology is used to monitor older people with dementia. The words associated with monitoring are negative - surveillance, 'big brother', intrusive, controlling. For the past two years care practitioners in local authorities and NHS mental health trusts have been using the Just Checking activity monitoring system to assess people with dementia, living alone in their homes. Small, wireless movement sensors placed in the key rooms of the house, are triggered as the person goes about their daily life, and the data are represented as a line on a 24-hour chart. The chart is accessed via a password controlled website. The charts give care professionals and family carers a much clearer 'picture' of how a person with dementia is acting in their own home. The information is used to devise a care package that is appropriate, and will support them to continue to live independently. This article presents three case studies to highlight the use of the technology.
Managing the care home closure process: care manager's experiences and views
- Authors:
- WILLIAMS Jacquette, NETTEN Ann, WARE Patricia
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Social Work, 37(5), July 2007, pp.909-924.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
This paper reports case study research that set out to identify what care managers do during independent care home closures. Little research has focused on the way in which care homes for older people are closed in England, or what those involved think about the process. This paper reports the activities and views of care managers directly involved in helping older people relocate from care homes that were closed by their owners. During such closures, residents and their families have no choice but to move, usually to a deadline, and with little control over the process. Care managers have a responsibility to help arrange alternative care for those current residents who are publicly funded, and to offer information and support to those funding their own care (the ‘self-funded’). Closure related activities could involve considerable staff time. Care management arrangements, including the organization of teams and provision of needs assessments, varied across authorities. The care managers described drawing on emotional counselling and inter-personal skills, as well as practitioner knowledge and experience, particularly when offering support and advice about finding appropriate new homes. Tensions between aims, constraints on their actions and views of good practice are identified.
Case studies
- Author:
- IMPROVEMENT AND DEVELOPMENT AGENCY
- Publisher:
- Improvement and Development Agency
- Publication year:
- 2007
- Pagination:
- 20p.
- Place of publication:
- London
The guides in the series Older People's Shared Priority have highlighted examples of innovation or good practice from around the country. Four case studies are included in this guide to show how a sample of authorities have managed their work and the different approaches they have taken.