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Assisted living for the aged and frail: innovations in design, management and financing
- Authors:
- REGNIER Victor, HAMILTON Jennifer, YATABE Suzie
- Publisher:
- Columbia University Press
- Publication year:
- 1995
- Pagination:
- 285p.,illus.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- New York
Practical text offering an introduction to assisted living and sheltered housing for older people. Offers ideas on how housing design can enhance the quality of life, and places these in the context of provision of services and creative management of projects.
Seamless care or patchwork quilt: discharging patients from acute hospital care
- Author:
- MARKS Linda
- Publisher:
- King's Fund Institute
- Publication year:
- 1994
- Pagination:
- 55p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Examines discharge related problems, including management, administrative and policy issues.
Management and care of the elderly: psychosocial perspectives
- Editor:
- HARPER Mary
- Publisher:
- Sage
- Publication year:
- 1991
- Pagination:
- 387p.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- Newbury Park, CA
Collection of papers ranging over the variety of services that elders may need and describing guidelines and techniques for practice.
Dependent territories: the frail elderly and community care
- Author:
- MACLEAN Una
- Publisher:
- Nuffield Provincial Hospitals Trust
- Publication year:
- 1989
- Pagination:
- 124p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Traces the historical roots of services to the elderly; the evolution of the concept of community care; and recent developments - from care attendants to case managers and the management of community care services.
Incontinence and its management
- Editor:
- MANDELSTAM Dorothy
- Publisher:
- Chapman and Hall
- Publication year:
- 1986
- Pagination:
- 295p., diags., illus., bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- London
Intended primarily for doctors, nurses and members of the paramedical professions. Includes a chapter on the role of Social Services Departments.
Dementia: research, innovation and management: papers presented to a National Conference... October, 1985
- Author:
- AGE CONCERN SCOTLAND
- Publisher:
- Age Concern
- Publication year:
- 1986
- Pagination:
- 72p., tables, illus., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
Managing home care for the elderly: lessons from community-based agencies
- Authors:
- PELHAM Annabel O., CLARK William F
- Publisher:
- Springer
- Publication year:
- 1986
- Pagination:
- 196p.
- Place of publication:
- New York
Managing social services for the elderly more effectively : BASW's response to the Audit Commission report
- Author:
- BRITISH ASSOCIATION OF SOCIAL WORKERS
- Publisher:
- British Association of Social Workers
- Publication year:
- 1985
- Pagination:
- 45p.
- Place of publication:
- Birmingham
Everybody's concern: examination of arrangements by Cardiff and Vale of Glamorgan for safeguarding older people in Hafod homes; inspected March-July 2002
- Author:
- WALES. Social Services Inspectorate for Wales
- Publisher:
- Wales. National Assembly. Social Services Inspectorate for Wales
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 120p.
- Place of publication:
- Cardiff
Progress through partnership
- Editor:
- LEVAI Katalin
- Publisher:
- The Social Innovation Foundation
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 153p.
- Place of publication:
- Budapest
Report of a joint project between the National Institute for Social Work and organisations in Hungary representing social welfare services, research, and training and education. The work involved looking at reforming health and welfare services in the context the political changes taking place in Hungary. The project went forward in several phases: inception; research; training; and dissemination. Describes the project; and looks at the development of services for older people in Hungary.