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Working with dementia: guidelines for professionals
- Editor:
- MARSHALL Mary
- Publisher:
- Venture Press
- Publication year:
- 1990
- Pagination:
- 108p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Birmingham
Guidelines for non-medical workers for work with people with dementia and their carers in the community, providing a basic introduction to dementia and an introduction to skills and techniques of management.
Examining day centre provision for older people in the UK using the Equality Act 2010: findings of a scoping review
- Authors:
- MANTHORPE Jill, MORIARTY Jo
- Journal article citation:
- Health and Social Care in the Community, 22(4), 2014, pp.352-360.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
This article reports the findings from a literature review of day care services undertaken during March–June 2012 and repeated in May 2013. The databases searched included AgeInfo, Embase, Medline, PsycINFO, Social Care Online, Web of Science and the publication platform Ingenta Connect as well as specialist older people's sites. It discusses these findings in the context of services for older people in the UK, defined as those aged 65 years and over. The aim of the scoping review was to identify what is known about how day services (here confined to congregate day care or day centres) will meet the challenges posed by the Equality Act 2010 in supporting different user groups, such as lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender older people or older people from minority ethnic groups. The review found that research on all aspects of day services was limited and that information about older people using such services was often provided context-free. It concludes that those funding or evaluating day services' support to diverse groups of older people need to urgently address matters such as differential access and differential views about specific services. (Publisher abstract)
Caring for older people at home: staff guidelines
- Author:
- AGE CONCERN TOWER HAMLETS
- Publisher:
- Age Concern
- Publication year:
- 1995
- Pagination:
- 149p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Handbook aimed at staff of Tower Hamlets SSD, independent agencies and all others working with elders in their own homes. Provides a framework for good practice. Includes sections on: good organisational practice; practical matters (including handling money, pensions, punctuality, gifts, and entering and leaving a user's home); providing care; prevention and promotion; working in someone else's home (including confidentiality, sharing information, dealing with complaints, aggression and violence, risk management, and accidents and emergencies); special care needs; cultural and religious diversity; and the law and domiciliary care.
On equal terms: working with disabled people
- Editor:
- FRENCH Sally
- Publisher:
- Butterworth-Heinemann
- Publication year:
- 1994
- Pagination:
- 291p.,tables,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- Oxford
Collection of papers. Discusses the meaning of disability as disabled people perceive it and goes on to focus on issues relating to practice, including: gender and disability; disabled people from minority ethnic groups; the abuse of disabled people; researching disability; legislation; and innovative practice.
Business support strategies for improving retention and reintegration of disabled employees in SMEs: a review of evidence and recommendations for pilot delivery within action two of the London Workforce Futures Equal Programme
- Author:
- TRINOVA
- Publisher:
- London Workforce Futures Partnership
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 93p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
The London Workforce Futures Equal Development Partnership aims to develop a new coherent strategic policy framework and a co-ordinated best practice service model to address the identified needs of both SME employers and disabled employees for more responsive and flexible support, to reduce the current perceived fragmentation of service delivery. The programme of work specifically focuses on: the needs of SMEs; to enable them to adapt to the needs of workforce members. This will include an emphasis on implementation of the Disability Discrimination Act; the needs of disabled people (particularly those with mental ill-health) from black and minority ethnic communities, older people and lone parents; piloting innovative models of support using an employer-focused approach, new strategies, solutions and competency models (to enable effective reintegration and retention of employees who are suffering from physical or mental health problems as well as those who are at risk of drop-out from the workforce due to physical or mental stress)
Black death in police custody: a Runnymede report - Part II
- Author:
- -
- Journal article citation:
- Runnymede Bulletin, 320, December 1999, pp.4-8.
- Publisher:
- Runnymede Trust
Part I of this report concentrated on the official statistics of black deaths in police custody and discussed their proportionate representation. Part II focuses on the current inquest system. In particular it documents the experiences, based on in-depth interviews, of the families of those who died whilst in police custody as well as those of campaigning groups under the current system.
A sociology of mental health and illness
- Authors:
- PILGRIM David, ROGERS Anne
- Publisher:
- Open University Press
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 254p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Buckingham
Provides an overview of the major aspects of the sociology of mental health and illness. Draws on a range of social theories and methods to illustrate points, provides information organised along class, gender, race and age boundaries, and critically analyses the mental health professions. Looks critically at debates around mental health legislation, and examines organisational aspects of psychiatry. Includes a chapter on community mental health work. Concludes with a discussion of the various ways in which psychiatric patients and their relatives can be understood in their social context.
Community care of older people
- Editors:
- BEALES David, DENHAM Michael, TULLOCH Alistair
- Publisher:
- Radcliffe Medical Press
- Publication year:
- 1998
- Pagination:
- 206p.,tables,list of orgs.
- Place of publication:
- Abingdon
Collection of papers giving a profile of all aspects of the care of older people in the community, with particular emphasis on the importance of maintaining function and independence as well as health. Includes chapters on: ageing; the demography of old age; the presentation and management of physical disease in older people; mental health problems in older people; prescribing and the older patient in the community; nutrition; anticipatory care of older people in the community; the practical organisation of screening and socio-medical assessment in old age; health promotion; community nursing and primary care; institutional care of older people in the community; disability and rehabilitation for older people; social services; law and the older patient; medical ethics in community care; black and minority ethnic elders; and the carer's perspective.
The Carers (Recognition and Services) Act 1995; challenge or chimera?; national conference held at the University of Bradford on 15 April 1996
- Editors:
- CHALLENGER Allan, et al
- Publisher:
- University of Bradford. Department of Applied Social Studies
- Publication year:
- 1997
- Pagination:
- 56p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Bradford
Includes conference papers on: the background to the Carers (Recognition and Services) Act 1995; whether the Act will make a difference; black and minority ethnic carers and the Act; the Act and young carers; the Act, attachment and dementia; caring for survivors with brain injuries; and gender, caring and matters of quality.
Older people with mental health problems living alone: anybody's priority?
- Author:
- BARNES Diana
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health. Social Services Inspectorate
- Publication year:
- 1997
- Pagination:
- 61p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Research study designed to run concurrently with 2 other SSI projects: 'Assessing older people with dementia living in the community' and 'A National inspection of services for older people with dementia in the community'. Contains sections on: the nature of older people with mental health problems living alone in the community; joint work with health services; black and minority ethnic older people; the service response; families; risk; legal arrangements; abuse; housing; and training and supervision.