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How much is enough? Perspectives of care recipients and professional on the sufficiency of in-home care
- Authors:
- MORROW-HOWELL Nancy, PROCTOR Enola, ROZARIO Philip
- Journal article citation:
- Gerontologist, 41(6), December 2001, pp.723-732.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
This American study aims to increase knowledge about the impact of rater role on the assessment of in-home supportive care. The authors compared the perspectives of care recipients and professionals on one aspect of the broad concept of quality of care in home care the sufficiency of the amount of care provided by informal and formal caregivers. Sufficiency of home care was assessed through concurrent elderly persons' self-reports through telephone interview and nurse clinical reports based on in-home interviews with the elder. Results found professional ratings of the sufficiency of care recipients. From the perspective of both care recipients and professionals, sufficiency of care was significantly related to coresidence of elder and caregiver, and to caregiver health.
The experiences and challenges of informal caregivers: common themes and differences among Whites Blacks and Hispanics
- Authors:
- NAVAIE-WALISER Maryam, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Gerontologist, 41(6), December 2001, pp.733-741.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
This study examines commonalities and differences in the experiences and challenges of White, Black, and Hispanic informal caregivers in New York. A randomly selected representative cross-section of households was contacted through telephone interviews. Compared with White caregivers, Black caregivers were more likely to provide higher intensity care, to report having unmet needs with care provision, and to experience increased religiosity since becoming caregivers, but were less likely to report difficulty with providing care. Hispanic caregivers were more likely than White caregivers to have help from formal caregivers and to experience increased religiosity since becoming caregivers.
Quality at home for older people: involving service users in defining home care specifications
- Authors:
- RAYNES Norma, et al
- Publisher:
- Policy Press/Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 79p.
- Place of publication:
- York
The government’s NHS plan emphasises the importance of services based on users’ views. This report provides practical guidance on how to ensure that older people’s views are heard and acted on, and their views monitored, in relation to service quality. The report provides new information on the definition of quality in home care services by users both under and over eighty years of age; identifies users’ priorities; shows the differences and similarities in the perceptions of quality between white and minority ethnic service users; and compares different methods of obtaining service users’ views.
Should free personal care be available for all older people?
- Authors:
- HUTTON John, LISHMAN Gordon
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 15.3.01, 2001, p.17.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
The two authors debate whether personal care for older people should be available free of charge.
Family homes: using parental property to provide future housing for people with learning disabilities: guidance for families and advisors
- Author:
- KING Nigel
- Publisher:
- Mental Health Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 85p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This report culminates from a project which explored how the family home, whether owned or rented, could be used to provide secure accommodation for the person with learning disabilities in the future. It was undertaken as part of the Foundation for People with Learning Disabilities' Growing Older with Learning Disabilities (GOLD) programme.
Staying home alone: working in the community with older people who have dementia
- Author:
- MCDONALD Annette
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 98p.
- Place of publication:
- Brighton
This is a training pack with simply structured guidelines, notes for facilitators and clear learning objectives. It is specifically geared towards the training needs of home care workers. Each workshop is cross-referenced to S/NVQ Units in Care Level 2. The sessions are designed to help staff understand their own attitudes and assumptions and to re-think their practice through case scenarios. It includes a factual session on 'what is not dementia' which is an important area of knowledge for home care workers, and one which not all training packs include. Practical guidance is given on how to apply person-centred principles, and action planning sheets are included for staff to take away and consider how to put their learning into practice.
Long-term care in the 21st century: perspectives from around the Asia-Pacific rim
- Editor:
- CHI Iris
- Publisher:
- Haworth Press
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 249p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Binghamton, NY
Discusses policies and programmes for long-term care in seven countries around the Asia-Pacific Rim: the United States, Canada, Japan, Australia, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. Each country is covered in two chapters, one to examine the philosophy and values that underlie its approaches to long-term care, the second to discuss its systems of service delivery.The book provides practical information on essential gerontological issues for each country, including: financing arrangements; development of client classification systems; case management in both residential and community-based systems; key source documents, references, and Web sites; political and cultural influences; and home-based and family caregiving
The future is aging
- Author:
- TAKAMURA Jeanette C.
- Journal article citation:
- Social Thought: Journal of Religion in the Social Services, 20(3/4), 2001, pp.3-16.
- Publisher:
- Haworth Press
- Place of publication:
- Binghamton, New York
The social and moral meanings of aging and of being an older person are evolving with an increasingly global context. Although there are differences that can be drawn between developed and developing nations, these meanings appear to be differentiated by variables such as gender, race and ethnicity, living arrangements, and age cohort. However, the legitimacy or dominance accorded some of the meanings will likely be dependent upon the ideological beliefs of those who are deemed experts or who wield influence in policy circles. Meanwhile, the resolution of many of the most pressing aging policy issues will be compelled by the sheer demographics of aging and confounded by the extent to which ideological perspectives are intractable.
The social and psychological aspects of smart home technology within the care sector
- Author:
- DEWSBURY Guy
- Journal article citation:
- New Technology in the Human Services, 14(1/2), 2001, pp.9-17.
- Publisher:
- Centre for Human Service Technology
Technological innovations within the home are nothing new. The introduction of the radio, through to the current rise of computer technology have affected the way in which people interact with their environment and between each other. The advent of ‘smart’ technology for the home has been welcomed by the minority and shunned by the majority, being perceived as unreliable and too ‘sci-fi’. Orwelian conceptions of the home as a locus of extended social control, no doubt, also affect the acceptance of technology into the fabric of the house. Alienation from this form of technology might have also arisen as a by-product of the way it has been introduced and marketed. Many people with disabilities and older persons might feel that they are not included in discussions on technology, as it is perceived as irrelevant to their needs. There is little doubt in the mind of the author that this pessimistic view will decrease and acceptance will occur when the technology no longer holds the associations and values associated with the sci-fi label and is used within the care field appropriately. This paper considers how the technology can be used in the provision of extending care for people with disabilities or older people. It considers the efficacy of approach and its potential consequences. The observations within this paper stem from undertaking a number of workshops and consultations on the use of smart home technology within the social care field. Within these consultations, certain common themes evolved from the discussions that the author attempts to address here. Most frequently, the issues centred on the relationship between technology and the person with disabilities.
Design with care
- Authors:
- CHEVERST Keith, et al
- Journal article citation:
- New Technology in the Human Services, 14(1/2), 2001, pp.39-47.
- Publisher:
- Centre for Human Service Technology
This paper is primarily about design and some of the difficulties of ‘appropriate’ design in care settings: about the interaction between technologies, application domains, design methodologies and about some of the challenges of informing design. This is hardly a novel concern, but this particular focus arises as a consequence of digital technologies maturing and transferring to the everyday domain; as the convergence of interactive digital systems, networks and mobile devices potentially transforms the ways that we carry out mundane, everyday activities. In recent years, the increasing presence of computing technology in the domestic environment has emerged as an important new arena of study. Domestic environments are becoming key sites for the consumption of information and communication technologies - embracing, in the ‘care’ domain, various forms of ‘assistive’ technologies and the design and provision of ‘smart’ homes. This paper reports on a recently initiated research project ‘Care in the Digital Community’ - begun under the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) Dependability Interdisciplinary Research Collaboration (DIRC) Network project EQUATOR. The project aims to use a multidisciplinary research team to facilitate the development of enabling technologies to assist care in the community for particular user groups with different support needs. The general objective is to examine how digital technology can be used to support sheltered housing residents and their staff. Although only recently started, the project anticipates exploring the affordances of a variety of technological configurations, including the use of virtual environments replicating real world situations, and the use of handheld and wearable digital technology to provide support.