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Post-reform community care for elderly people: who gets how much of what service?
- Authors:
- DAVIES Bleddyn, FERNANDEZ Jose, WARBURTON Raymond
- Journal article citation:
- Care Plan, 3(2), December 1996, pp.25-30.
- Publisher:
- Positive Publications/ Anglia Polytechnic University, Faculty of Health and Social Work
Evaluates community care reforms in terms of services for older people and how well they are targeted. Looks at the issues relating to the effects on the services and the cost implications.
Cross-cultural perspectives: toward an integrated theory of elder abuse
- Author:
- TRUSCOTT Deborah J.
- Journal article citation:
- Policy Studies, 17(4), December 1996, pp.287-298.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
Due to the use of unrepresentative samples, the absence of general agreement on the definition of elder abuse, and a general lack of theoretical integration, the prolific knowledge we have of the concept of elder abuse tells us little about the prevalence or about cultural differences in the social context, construction, and individual expression of elder abuse. This article argues that current conceptions of elder abuse originate with health and social services professionals in Canada and North American, who export their 'authoritative knowledge' to health and social services professionals in other countries and societies. Beyond the problems involved in definition it considers the questions and issues that must be addressed in developing an integrative theoretical framework within which to interpret elder abuse.
Elderly people
- Author:
- CROSBY Gillian
- Journal article citation:
- Research Matters, 1, April 1996, pp.34-36.
- Publisher:
- Community Care
The mistreatment of elderly people is emerging as a growing problem in most western countries, yet research on this are is sparse, and the need for reliable data and debate, from which policies and good practice can grow, is essential. Looks at what has been done to overcome this short fall.
The final betrayal
- Author:
- MILLAR Barbara
- Journal article citation:
- Health Service Journal, 4.4.96, 1996, pp.14-15.
- Publisher:
- Emap Healthcare
Reports from the third Action on Elder Abuse conference which was held in Warwick last week. Calls for elder abuse to investigate and clear policies for both the abused and the abuser to be developed.
Friends for life
- Author:
- CARLISLE Daloni
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 27.9.96, 1996, p.20.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
The author looks at the controversies emerging following a recent ruling on a case where a care worker was left five thousand pounds in a former client's will.
Abusing the position
- Author:
- WHITE Caroline
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 1.2.96, 1996, pp.30-31.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Questions the absence of legal safeguards for elderly people in care and asks if legislators should tackle elder abuse as they have tried to cope with child abuse.
Painting the Forth Bridge
- Author:
- BADGER Graham
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 28.11.96, 1996, p.8.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Describes how Cambridgeshire arrived at joint policies and procedures for dealing with elder abuse.
Which way forward?
- Author:
- EASTMAN Mervyn
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 28.11.96, 1996, p.7.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Argues that approaches to elder abuse are far too heavily influenced by clinical models and too reliant on modes of protection.
Consumerism versus empowerment: a principal approach to the involvement of older service users
- Authors:
- BARNES Marian, WALKER Alan
- Journal article citation:
- Policy and Politics, 24(4), October 1996, pp.375-393.
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
Critically evaluates the particular approach to user involvement and user empowerment adopted by the British government, which it argues is overly shallow. The article use the term 'consumerism' to convey the market analogy underpinning the government's policy and contrast this with genuine empowerment. The article also contains an outline of the eight key principles according to which the empowerment of service users could be realised. Finally, a practical example is used to show how to achieve the empowerment of frail older people.
Elderly people
- Author:
- CROSBY Gillian
- Journal article citation:
- Research Matters, 2, October 1996, pp.27-30.
- Publisher:
- Community Care
Research has taken time to catch up with the direction of community care policy, which is for more older people to be cared for in their own homes rather than in institutions. In addition, it is important to look at the shortcomings of specialist forms of accommodation which can too readily be seen as a panacea.