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Crisis intervention - a framework for social work with people with dementia and their carers
- Author:
- PARKER Jonathan
- Journal article citation:
- Elders the Journal of Care and Practice, 1(4), October 1992, pp.43-57.
Demonstrates the usefulness of a crisis intervention framework for people with dementia and their carers.
Good company: an anthropological study of old people in groups
- Author:
- JERROME D
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- Publication year:
- 1992
- Pagination:
- 226p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
Study showing how older people devise strategies for living and how members of the elderly peer group construct a set of meanings which sustain them in their individual passages through time. Includes chapters on: friendship; health and sickness; beliefs about ageing; death and dying; age-group solidarity; loneliness; and the possibilities for intervention by outsiders.
Understanding elder abuse: a training manual for helping professionals
- Authors:
- BIGGS Simon, PHILLIPSON Chris
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
- Publication year:
- 1992
- Pagination:
- 178p.
- Place of publication:
- Brighton
Training manual designed to be used in training sessions with a broad spectrum of staff. Contains sections on: the social context of elder abuse and neglect; defining abuse and neglect; initial assessment and intervention; abuse and neglect in particular settings; and preventing abuse and neglect.