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Rehabilitation: an old concept in a new policy context
- Author:
- ROBINSON Janice
- Journal article citation:
- Managing Community Care, 6(3), June 1998, pp.103-106.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
Discusses how inadequate opportunities for rehabilitation have resulted in a distorted system of care and public disquiet about the impact on vulnerable older people and their families. Investment in rehabilitation offers a way out of a vicious circle of increasing demands for care and escalating expenditure. Argues that the system of health and social care needs to be re-shaped to enable older people to regain the independence so often impaired after illness or injury. Health and local authorities face a daunting challenge, but suggests they will make progress if they follow the five-point plan in this article.
Designs for life
- Author:
- SMITH Verity
- Journal article citation:
- Professional Social Work, December 2002, p.15.
- Publisher:
- British Association of Social Workers
Describe the aims of the EQUAL Research Network (the Extending the Quality of Life Research Initiative). The network members work with older and disabled people and their organisations and looks particularly at inclusive environments; inclusive design and rehabilitation.
Social rehabilitation:concepts, evidence and practice
- Author:
- MOUNTAIN Gail
- Journal article citation:
- Managing Community Care, 9(2), April 2001, pp.8-15.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
The current evidence to support rehabilitation commissioned and/or provided by social services gives some promising indications. However, it also reveals an urgent need for more and better information about what works best and for whom.
Messages from the front line: joint health and social care rehabilitation
- Author:
- TRAPPES-LOMAX Tessa
- Journal article citation:
- Managing Community Care, 7(4), August 1999, pp.33-37.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
This article reports key messages for policy makers, drawn from a workshop held for local health and social care staff with responsibilities for running or setting up short-term residential rehabilitation for elderly and disabled people. The aim was to learn from each other's experience and to provide a nuts-and-bolts framework for the development of local joint investment plans.
Rehabilitation in the NHS and social care
- Authors:
- BEAUMONT D.M., MORRIS J.
- Publisher:
- British Geriatrics Society
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 2p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Rehabilitation services have probably declined in capacity, but more importantly have changed in character. That is, they are taking place in a greater variety of settings, for example community based rehabilitation suffered from a drive towards acute care in hospital settings, from declining medical involvement due to pressure on geriatricians to take part in general medical emergency work., the shift of rehabilitation into Intermediate Care settings and reduction in specialist inpatient rehabilitation beds. We believe this to be disadvantageous due to the relationship between disease and disability, and the need to optimise medical treatment to support rehabilitation.
The influence of health, social support quality and rehabilitation on depression among disabled elders
- Authors:
- HOROWITZ A., et al
- Journal article citation:
- Aging and Mental Health, 7(5), September 2003, pp.342-350.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
This study examined the influence of health, social support, disability, and vision rehabilitation services on depression among visually impaired older adults seeking vision rehabilitation services. Participants (n 1/4 95) were interviewed at application and approximately two years later. The first hierarchical regression model focused on concurrent relationships at baseline. The second model used baseline health and social support variables, along with indicators of change in vision and use of rehabilitation services, in order to predict change in depression over time. Findings indicate that being unmarried, in poorer health, having lower quality of relationships with family, and lower stability in friendships were significant independent risk factors for initial depression, explaining 50% of the variance. Decline in depression over time was predicted by younger age, better self-rated health, stability of friendships, and use of rehabilitation services that, along with baseline depression, explained 61% of the variance in depressive symptomatology at the two-year follow-up. Findings highlight the importance of qualitative aspects of social support for older disabled adults, as well as the distinction that needs to be made between factors that predict concurrent mental health status and those predicting change in status over time.
Enhancing independence: the effectiveness of re-ablement provision in South Worcestershire
- Authors:
- LE MESURIER Nick, CUMELLA Stuart
- Journal article citation:
- Managing Community Care, 7(4), August 1999, pp.27-32.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
The importance of rehabilitation in promoting independence is recognised in current policy directives on the provision of care to older and disabled people, but has not yet been widely established within the spectrum of services offered by local authorities. Describes how a Worcestershire-based re-ablement service presents an effective model of joint working to provide comprehensive multidisciplinary assessments and a therapeutic intervention service aimed reducing dependency and promoting service users' choice and control over their care programmes.
Rehabilitation studies handbook
- Editors:
- WILSON Barbara A., McLELLAN D. Lindsay
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
- Publication year:
- 1997
- Pagination:
- 425p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Cambridge
Provides a resource for all those involved in the care and rehabilitation of disabled people. Integrates the concepts and principles of rehabilitation with good clinical practice. Includes chapters on: disabled people in society; disability equality training; towards a therapeutic model of rehabilitation; work, occupation and disability; management in rehabilitation; research and evaluation; social policy, disability and rehabilitation; principles of the acquisition of sensorimotor skills; management of acquired cognitive disorders; challenging behaviour and people with severe brain damage; pain; the multiply handicapped child; and factors specific to disabled older people.
"Nar alle revalideringsmuligheder ma anses for udtomte"
- Author:
- ANDERSEN Tine
- Journal article citation:
- Nordisk Sosialt Arbeid, 17(4), 1997, pp.231-235.
- Publisher:
- Universitetsforlaget AS
Looks at how the Danish rehabilitation institutions have been experiencing problems. Suggests a radical solution to these problems.
Rehabilitation of the older patient: a handbook for the multidisciplinary team
- Editor:
- SQUIRES Amanda J.
- Publisher:
- Croom Helm
- Publication year:
- 1988
- Pagination:
- 278p., bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- London
Issues concerning rehabilitation of the elderly and considered from a multi-faceted team management approach.