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Dementia sufferers living at home
- Author:
- WENGER G. Clare
- Journal article citation:
- International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 9(9), September 1994, pp.721-733.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Looks at the availability of family care, the characteristics of carers, the problems they face and the service support they receive. Only two-thirds of dementia sufferers living in the community have identifiable carers; the average age of carers surveyed was 65; dementia cases demonstrated a high level of dependency and need for supervision; and the level of input of domiciliary services was low. GPs are the key professionals who act as gatekeepers to other services. Presently available services are inappropriate for some carers and packages of care and support need to be flexible and better tailored to carers' needs.
Support networks and dementia
- Author:
- WENGER G. Clare
- Journal article citation:
- International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 9(3), 1994, pp.181-194.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Reports on research carried out in Liverpool, which identified the availability of kin and levels of contact with family, friends, neighbours and community groups, and compares the distribution of support network types of those identified as dementia with non-cases.
Old people's health and experiences of the caring services: accounts from rural communities in North Wales
- Author:
- WENGER G. Clare
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- Publication year:
- 1988
- Pagination:
- 117p., tables, bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Liverpool
Reports on a survey of health and attitudes to health, contact with and attitudes to health services, the social services, social security and related agencies, and implications for social policy.