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Establishing empirically-informed practice with caregivers: findings from the CARES program
- Author:
- BLACK Kathy
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Gerontological Social Work, 56(6-7), 2013, pp.585-601.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
There is increasing interest in delivering efficacious interventions to caregivers. This study reports on the processes and findings from a modified approach of the Wraparound System of Care. The practice model is implemented over 4 phases and is based on 3 theoretical constructs and 10 principles. The evaluation utilized treatment fidelity measures and employed a quasi-experimental pretest/posttest design to examine caregiver outcomes (N = 120). Findings suggest significant improvement among caregivers’ self-reported health, life satisfaction, well-being, and quality of life, as well as a reduction in caregiver risk and burden. Delineation of the processes used in the model are presented. (Publisher abstract)
Family support and community care: a study of South Asian older people
- Authors:
- BOWES Alison, DAR Naira, SRIVASTAVA Archana
- Publisher:
- The Stationery Office
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
Family support and community care: a study of South Asian older people
- Authors:
- BOWES Alison, DAR Naira, SRIVASTAVA Archana
- Publisher:
- The Stationery Office
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 101p.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
Lessons from 'memorial piety': sapitalising on the connectedness between living and past generations and its implications for social work practice
- Author:
- PARK Hong-Jae
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Social Work, 19(4), 2019, pp.468-484.
- Publisher:
- Sage
Just as ageing is part of life, so is death. Death does not end people’s desire to connect with deceased family members and, arguably, the connection between the dead and the living plays an important role in people’s lives and relationships. This article explores the matter of ancestor worship, as a form of filial piety, and highlights the importance of considering an “expanded” connection between past and current generations, beyond death. Data were collected from two qualitative studies with Korean residents from Australia, New Zealand and Korea, and analysed using an altered mode of thematic analysis in a Korean and English bilingual context. The findings from the studies show that connectedness with ancestors is an important part of the participants’ physical and mental worlds. The discussion in this article includes the meaning of ancestral engagement, ancestral veneration, and mutual connections between ascendants and descendants. The term “memorial piety” is used to define what people practise in relation to remembering and commemorating ancestors or other late loved ones – not necessarily worshipping them in contemporary times. This article addresses a need to broaden the scope and quality of social work for both people who have died and their surviving families, and highlights the potential role of social workers in promoting a meaningful relatedness between past and living generations. (Edited publisher abstract)
Older adult and family member perspectives of the decision-making process involved in moving to assisted living
- Authors:
- KOENIG Terry L., et al
- Journal article citation:
- Qualitative Social Work, 13(3), 2014, pp.335-350.
- Publisher:
- Sage
The decision to move into assisted living (AL) can be viewed as a life-changing process for older adults and their families; and each may possess differing views of this process. This qualitative study examined the AL decision-making process as described by twenty-two older adult and family member dyads. Participants described emotional and logistical components related to the AL moving decision. Further, fifteen of twenty-two dyads expressed conflicting or differing views of the AL moving decision. Our discussion examines the need for future studies to explore the impact of family and older adult disagreements on the older adult’s AL adjustment; the necessity for community-based agencies and AL settings to provide social services over the duration of the decision-making process; and the importance of employing social workers skilled in family practice in the AL setting. (Publisher abstract)
The use of family decision meetings when addressing caregiver stress
- Authors:
- BRODIE Kilolo, GADLING-COLE Charnetta
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Gerontological Social Work, 42(1), 2003, pp.89-104.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
This article focuses on the literature about Family Decision Meetings for relatives caring for older people sufering from Alzheimer's Disease. There is emphasis in this literature on the special problems faced by families in which the symptoms of the disease include troubling behavioral changes, as well as loss of cognitive abilities. particular attention is paid to the families who try to manage without agency-provided services, and without the partnership of agency staff. A number interventions are listed, with detailed description of the Family Decision Meeting and the value of this strategy for caregiving families. (Copies of this article are available from: Haworth Document Delivery Centre Haworth Press Inc., 10 Alice Street Binghamton, NY 13904-1580)
The perceptions and needs of farm dwellers regarding aging, advanced age, and future perspectives
- Author:
- STRYDOM Hermann
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Gerontological Social Work, 42(1), 2003, pp.59-75.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
This article reports on a multidisciplinary study that was undertaken by the Faculty of Health Sciences of the Potchefstroom University for Christian Higher Education. This study was done on certain farms in the North West Province of South Africa and called the FLAGH study, meaning the Farm Labour, Agriculture and General Health study. This article reports on a need assessment of farm dwellers done during the second half of 2002 and focuses specifically on perceptions and needs regarding aging, advanced age and future perspectives of aged farm dwellers. The objective of this study was to ascertain the psychosocial needs and problems of farm dwellers in order to eventually design, implement and evaluate a programme aimed at the improvement of the quality of life of farm dwellers. An exploratory study was done, utilising in-depth interviewing according to a schedule of both quantitative and qualitative nature. Certain aspects, like the attitude of the community towards the elderly, relationships of the elderly with peers, children, grandchildren and spouses were dealt with in this study. Topics like the needs or problems of the elderly, nearing death, old age homes and retirement were also covered in this project. (Copies of this article are available from: Haworth Document Delivery Centre Haworth Press Inc., 10 Alice Street Binghamton, NY 13904-1580)
Social workers need to know more about assisted living and vice versa
- Author:
- FRANKS Janette
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Social Work in Long-Term Care, 1(3), 2002, pp.13-16.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- London
The role of the social worker in Assisted Living goes beyond the obvious facility employee. Community-based social workers have a critical role in helping families and older adults to understand the real options in long-term care, including Assisted Living.
East-west dialogue in social work for older people and their families
- Author:
- HUGMAN Richard
- Journal article citation:
- Asia Pacific Journal of Social Work, 10(1), March 2000, pp.59-76.
- Publisher:
- Times Academic
Examines issues of family care in eastern and western societies, arguing through a discussion of the notion of 'filial piety' that the family remains the central social institution providing care for older people in need, both in eastern and western societies. Suggests there are comparative lessons to be learned in the way social work with older people and their families is conceptualised. Attention to 'indirect' forms of practice, especially in supporting family carers, and to gender issues in family care, are seen to be important for the future development of social work in this field.
Postmodern critique of systems theory in social work with the aged and their families
- Authors:
- GREENE Roberta R., BLUNDO Robert G.
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Gerontological Social Work, 31(3/4), 1999, pp.87-100.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
Postmodern shifts in thinking about families, ageing, and intervention have dramatically challenged the fundamental paradigms of family systems or functionalist theory and the nature of intervention. This article use postmodern theory to critique the general systems approach to practice. It explores alternative views and recommends that social workers reconsider their intervention models.