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Technology in practice: issues and implications
- Author:
- GILLIARD Jane
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Dementia Care, 9(6), November 2001, pp.18-19.
- Publisher:
- Hawker
Discusses person-centered technology in dementia care.
Autonomy and the relationship between nurses and older people
- Author:
- McCORMACK Brendan
- Journal article citation:
- Ageing and Society, 21(4), July 2001, pp.417-446.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
This article challenges the dominant understanding of autonomy as 'individualism'. Through research undertaken with nurses who work with older people, it identifies the conflicts that arise between an individualistic understanding of autonomy set alongside an emphasis on 'person-centred' practice. Data were collected by recording 'naturally occurring' conversations between nurses, patients and associated practitioners. A total of 14 case studies were recorded. Conversational analysis and focus groups were used as part of the interpretative process. The author discusses the factors that prevented the operationalisation of an individualised rights-based concept of autonomy for older people. Issues including information-giving, the conversational style of nurses, internal and external constraints and patients' competence to decide are considered. Ends with a discussion of an alternative view of autonomy base on 'interconnectedness' in the nurse patient relationship.
Where there's a will
- Author:
- ASHLEY Colin
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 25.1.01, 2001, pp.26-27.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Wills allow people to put their affairs in order and give them peace of mind. They also remove confusion and recrimination from the mourning process. The author looks at the advice that social workers should consider offering to older clients.
The effects of changing values on the provision of long-term care
- Authors:
- LONGINO Charles F., POLIVKA Larry
- Journal article citation:
- Generations, 25(1), Spring 2001, pp.64-68.
- Publisher:
- American Society on Aging
This article asks what the long-term-care workforce in the USA will look like in the future. This depends upon the changing values on which long-term care itself is based. Argues that there are some major changes under way that may frame long-term care in the new ways in the future, thereby affecting both workforce and resources.
Achieving cultural competence: the challenge for clients and health care workers in a multicultural society
- Authors:
- BOMDER Bette, MARTIN Laura, MIRACLE Andrew
- Journal article citation:
- Generations, 25(1), Spring 2001, pp.35-42.
- Publisher:
- American Society on Aging
Increasingly, health care practitioners are recognising the importance of culture in their interactions with clients and colleagues. As the United States population becomes more diverse, practitioners face situations in which their clients' cultural backgrounds are clearly different from their own. Argues that skills that enhance care providers' abilities to recognise different cultural values, beliefs, and practices and to address these factors in intervention are likely to lead to more successful treatment outcomes. Further, professional groups are placing greater value on such skills not only because their client populations are more diverse group of individuals is joining the ranks of health care professions.
Tell me the truth: the effect of being told the diagnosis of dementia from the perspective of the person with dementia
- Authors:
- PRATT Rebekah, WILKINSON Heather
- Publisher:
- Mental Health Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 93p.
- Place of publication:
- London
The aim of this report was to explore the effect of being told the diagnosis of dementia from the perspective of the person with dementia. This study came about through identifying a number of concerns; the debate about disclosure; disclosure practices, the under representation of people with dementia in research and the need to develop psychosocial understandings of the experience of people with dementia.
Suicide and the elderly: issues for clinical practice
- Author:
- ROFF Sherri
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Gerontological Social Work, 34(2), 2001, pp.21-36.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
Suicide is the eighth leading cause of death in the United States, representing a significant public health problem. The elderly accounting for 20 percent of the nation's suicides despite accounting for only 13 percent of the population. This article presents an overview of the major demographic, social and psychological factors involved in suicide among the elderly: briefly discusses the theoretical underpinnings of the study of suicide; and addresses the ethical dilemmas of clinical practice with suicidal elderly, and offers implications for social work practice and suggestions for future research.
Empowerment and decision-making for people with dementia: the use of legal interventions in Scotland
- Author:
- WILKINSON H.
- Journal article citation:
- Aging and Mental Health, 5(4), November 2001, pp.322-328.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Dementia is associated with a decline in the ability to reason and make judgements thereby affecting a person's ability to make sound decisions. The growing emphasis on early diagnosis for people with dementia provides an opportunity for people to plan and control decisions about financial management and welfare. This paper coincides with a move to reform outdated Scottish Law with the Adults with Incapacity (Scotland) Act 2000. This legislation proposes a more integrated and flexible approach to the legal management of the affairs of people with reduced decision-making capability. This article reviews of the recent literature on the use of legal interventions for people with dementia and their families, and discusses the empowering or disempowering nature of the interventions.
What does it mean to listen to people with dementia?
- Authors:
- REID D., RYAN T., ENDERBY P.
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 16(3), May 2001, pp.377-392.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
A total of 19 people with dementia were interviewed as part of a study into unmet respite care need amongst caregivers and day-care attenders in Sheffield. Some important contextual debates associated with conducting social research with people with dementia are considered. These include informed consent, competency, and how the interests of caregivers and people with dementia are bound together. Day-care attenders spoke about 'being here' in a number of ways. These include their initial experiences, their sources of satisfaction and their sense of being in families. Theses substantive findings and the associated methodological insights suggest day-care attenders have important things to say as service-users if appropriate strategies for listening are employed. Service providers can collaborate imaginatively with day-care attenders to actively explore how care might be shaped by the experiences of persons with dementia.
Management of dementia
- Authors:
- LOVESTONE Simon, GAUTHIER Serge
- Publisher:
- Martin Dunitz
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 168p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Outlines the current medical knowledge on dementia. The book also discusses the disclosure of the diagnosis to patient and carers and the ethical complexities confronted at this early stage of dementia care. Further chapters deal with behavioural, psychiatric and sleep disturbances, with practical points supported by evidence when available.The book contains assessment scales that may be useful in the multidisciplinary evaluation of patient and carers.