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Bothered by bed blocking
- Author:
- RICKFORD Frances
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 1.4.93, 1993, pp.16-17.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Briefly discusses the problems associated with discharge of elderly people into the community and mentions the research work by NISW into hospital discharge.
The new IT generation
- Author:
- RICKFORD Frances
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 27.7.00, 2000, pp.18-19.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Looks at how better use of technological aids could mean more frail older people would be able to stay at home.
Can things only get better?
- Author:
- RICKFORD Frances
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 26.7.01, 2001, pp.18-20.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Most agree that intermediate care is a good thing and that it will greatly improve the lives of older people. What is exercising many, however, is how the services will be co-ordinated, delivered and financed.
Diamond rings and bathtime
- Author:
- RICKFORD Frances
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work Today, 21.1.93, 1993, p.15,17.
- Publisher:
- British Association of Social Workers
Elderly people are being forced into family or residential care - at great human and financial cost. Examines the steady shift to means testing.
Next on the transfer list
- Author:
- RICKFORD Frances
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 3.6.93, 1993, pp.20-21.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
About one in four authorities has transferred or proposes to transfer its homes for the elderly to a specially created independent trust. With reference to Avon and Buckinghamshire considers what benefits, if any arise from such policy.