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Cold remedies
- Authors:
- PASCOE Sue, PRATT Julian
- Journal article citation:
- Health Service Journal, 10.12.98, 1998, pp.28-29.
- Publisher:
- Emap Healthcare
Explains how, as winter pressures begin, one health authority is better able to cope thanks to multi-agency workshops which also involved local elderly people.
Room to calm the senses
- Author:
- BOND Henrietta
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 22.10.98, 1998, pp.32-33.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Reports on a groundbreaking project in Essex for people with dementia and their carers.
Across the great divide
- Authors:
- CAMERON Kirsteen, O'NEILL K.F.
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Dementia Care, 6(3), May 1998, pp.10-12.
- Publisher:
- Hawker
Describes an example of effective inter-agency collaboration in providing community care for people with dementia in Glasgow.
Continuing care and community care: management challenges and training implications
- Author:
- -
- Journal article citation:
- Management Issues in Social Care, 1(5), January 1998, pp.32-36.
- Publisher:
- OLM Systems
MESOL the Management Education Scheme by Open Learning sponsored by the SSI and NHS Executive, has been running a number of workshops designed to help senior practitioners/managers to appraise the changing patterns of demand for welfare services and explore how joint agency working can contribute to service development, customer care and delivery of quality outcomes. With a focus on the needs of older people, this article describes the content of one workshop and the themes that resulted from the day.
Community care, secondary health care and care management
- Editors:
- CHALLIS David, DARTON Robin, STEWART Karen
- Publisher:
- Ashgate
- Publication year:
- 1998
- Pagination:
- 178p.,diags.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- Aldershot
Contains papers on: care management and community care; community care and health care for older people; findings and lessons for care management, health care and community care from the Darlington study; the Darlington service past, present and future; the Cornwall experience with assessment and rehabilitation teams in the community; standardised assessment in the community; social services departments, secondary health care and community care; cost opportunities and constraints in developing secondary health care in the community; and linking community and health care.
Teams, multidisciplinary and interprofessional working and dementia
- Editors:
- SHEARD David, COX Sylvia
- Publisher:
- University of Stirling. Dementia Services Development Centre
- Publication year:
- 1998
- Pagination:
- 70p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Stirling
Provision of services for people with dementia and their carers requires significant coordination of diagnosis, assessment of needs, care planning and ongoing support from social services and housing departments. Teamwork is seen as the solution to failures in interagency coordination of care. This report identifies some key issues from the field and provides details of several examples of dementia teams.
Early warning system
- Author:
- McNALLY David
- Journal article citation:
- Health Service Journal, 21.5.98, 1998, pp.30-31.
- Publisher:
- Emap Healthcare
Argues that including primary care staff in collaborative working arrangements between health and social services can improve care for elderly people with dementia.
Randomised trial of impact of model of integrated care and case management for older people living in the community
- Authors:
- BERNABEI Roberto, et al
- Journal article citation:
- British Medical Journal, 2.5.98, 1998, pp.1348-1351.
- Publisher:
- British Medical Association
Evaluates the impact of a programme of integrated social and medical care among frail elderly people living in the community in Italy. Finds that integrated social and medical care with case management programmes may provide a cost effective approach to reduce admission to institutions and functional decline in older people living in the community.
Working together for wellbeing in older age
- Authors:
- HELP THE AGED, GENERAL ACCIDENT LIFE
- Publisher:
- Help the Aged
- Publication year:
- 1998
- Pagination:
- 16p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Summary of the issues raised at a symposium on working together for wellbeing in old age. The symposium brought together professionals from the health, social services, academic and voluntary sectors with the aim of sharing evidence, viewpoints, advice and experience in providing long term care services for older people.
Carrying out adaptations: a good practice guide for registered social landlords
- Authors:
- APPLETON Nigel, LEATHER Philip
- Publisher:
- Housing Corporation
- Publication year:
- 1998
- Pagination:
- 68p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Guidance providing principles and advice for registered social landlords when carrying out adaptations to housing for older people or disabled people. Designed to be translated into the context of local conditions and constraints. Includes sections on: a user centred approach; setting the policy; liaison and inter agency working; providing resources; experience and expertise; identifying need; managing the process; assessment, evaluation and setting priorities; management of the technical process; VAT; targets and competition; claiming funding; getting value from adaptations; responsibilities as landlord for adaptations undertaken by others; and user participation and consultation.