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The employment consequences of caring for older people
- Author:
- PHILLIPS Judith
- Journal article citation:
- Health and Social Care in the Community, 2(3), May 1994, pp.143-152.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Describes and discusses an exploratory study which highlights the difficulties faced by employees attempting to balance work with caring for an older adult.
Aspects of eldercare that place employees at risk
- Authors:
- GOTTLIEB Benjamin H., KELLOWAY E. Kevin, FRABONI Maryann
- Journal article citation:
- Gerontologist, 34(6), December 1994, pp.815-821.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
Examines the contribution of seven different aspects of eldercare to the prediction of several work and personal outcomes among employees of eight organizations. Results revealed that assistance with at least one Activity of Daily Living, eldercare management activities, and the number of eldercare crises to which the employee responded, each placed respondents at risk of more family interference with work, more stress, and more personal and job costs.
Terms and conditions of employment for those who assist in supporting others
- Author:
- JONES Heather
- Journal article citation:
- Elders the Journal of Care and Practice, 3(1), February 1994, pp.51-62.
Outlines the terms and conditions of employment of a voluntary organisation.
Black and ethnic minority women and men in Britain 1994
- Author:
- EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES COMMISSION
- Publisher:
- Equal Opportunities Commission
- Publication year:
- 1994
- Pagination:
- 38p.,diags.
- Place of publication:
- Manchester
Provides statistics from the 1991 Census on Black and Minority ethnic women and men in Britain. Includes tables on: ethnic composition of the population; geographical distribution; age structure; household characteristics; participation in education; qualification levels; local labour markets; unemployment; and employment.
The legal rights manual: a guide for social workers and advice centres
- Author:
- COOPER Jeremy
- Publisher:
- Arena
- Publication year:
- 1994
- Pagination:
- 448p.
- Place of publication:
- Aldershot
Provides social workers, advice centres and those engaged in caring for others, together with users, with an up-to-date text providing information and advice on legal rights. Covers a wide range of settings, including housing, the workplace, disability, mental health, dealing with the council and other public bodies, problems with the police, living with old age, and consumer goods and services.
The elderly client handbook: the Law Society's guide to acting for older people
- Author:
- ASHTON Gordon R
- Publisher:
- Law Society
- Publication year:
- 1994
- Pagination:
- 241p.,list of orgs.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Practice handbook identifying the needs of older people in a legal context and offering practical information for solicitors. Includes sections on: representing the client; financial management; managing an elderly client practice; community care; health care; employment, money and the home; and inheritance and death.
Inform '92: meeting the information needs of disabled people in Europe; International Conference Centre, Birmingham 13 and 14 October 1992
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 1994
- Pagination:
- 159p.,list of orgs.
- Place of publication:
- London
Includes papers on: acceptable language in information provision; the National Disability Information Project; telephone information helplines; MENCAP's profound intellectual and multiple disabilities section; physical and attitudinal barriers to effective information provision; employment information for people with disabilities; the accessibility of public information in different European countries; the EC's Helios programme; Kent County Council and links between disabled people in Europe; methods of disseminating information; the Deaf Women's Health Project; the Asian People with Disabilities Alliance; information and visual impairment; advocacy and the law; the use and value of information technology; and travelling and tourism for all.
The unconscious at work: individual and organizational stress in the human services
- Editors:
- OBHOLZER Anton, ROBERTS Vega Zagier
- Publisher:
- Routledge
- Publication year:
- 1994
- Pagination:
- 242p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Aimed at people managing and working in the human services, including consultants, trainers and students of organisational behaviour. Offers employees new ways of looking at their own experiences of stress at work, and of increasing understanding of the processes which can undermine effectiveness and morale. Part 1 contains the conceptual framework and examines the unconscious aspects of organisational life from psychoanalytical and from open systems theory perspectives. Part 2 looks at the stress involved in working with people and includes sections on working in a special baby care unit, with damaged children, disabled children, older people, and with dying people. Parts 3 and 4 deal with organisations and their effects on the people who work in them.
Petersburg in the early 90's: crazy, cold, cruel.
- Author:
- CHARITABLE FOUNDATION NOCHLEZHKA
- Publisher:
- Charitable Foundation Nochlezhka
- Publication year:
- 1994
- Pagination:
- 255p.
- Place of publication:
- St. Petersburg
Articles on the social changes taking place in St. Petersburg, after the euphoria of perestroika had evaporated. Social problems looked at include: homelessness, unemployment, homeless children living on the streets, crime, and poverty. Places these issues in the context of the ineffectiveness of state social policy and the role social work could play in alleviating these problems.
Policy and change
- Editors:
- SMITH Randall, RAISTRICK Jane
- Publisher:
- University of Bristol. School for Advanced Urban Studies
- Publication year:
- 1994
- Pagination:
- 450p.,tables,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- Bristol
Collection of papers drawing together recent research into changes in social policy over the last 10 years. Examines both the pressures for change and the impact that it has had on major policy areas. Chapters focus on urban policy, health and social care, housing, and labour markets. Also looks at: management in the public sector; quality and decentralisation; the changing role of the non-profit sector; information technology and organisational change; quasi-markets and social policy; privatisation and quasi-markets; the NHS and health care expenditure; user empowerment and older people; the housing market; and the Social Charter and Europeanisation of employment and social policy.