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The use of local community resources to facilitate a preventative approach to the care of older people: an examination in a rural context
- Authors:
- THOMPSON Catherine, POSTLE Karen
- Journal article citation:
- Practice: Social Work in Action, 19(3), September 2007, pp.211-226.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Policies for older people in the United Kingdom (UK) highlight the need for preventative work as a means of promoting quality of life and independence while also reducing pressure on acute services. This paper draws on findings from a small study of 'low level' service provision in a rural area of England which highlighted the complexity and patchy nature of services and the difficulties which older people were likely to encounter in ascertaining information about or accessing them. The authors consider how these difficulties impact on development of a coherent preventative strategy and ways in which they could be addressed, including the implications of developing preventative approaches for current social work practice with older people.
Transforming community care: a distorted vision?
- Authors:
- GORMAN Helen, POSTLE Karen
- Publisher:
- Venture Press
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 103p.
- Place of publication:
- Birmingham
The authors use their research to show powerfully how a generation of social workers have been disillusioned by care management. They also use their own practice experience with older people to demonstrate the continuing possibilities for social work to empower service users and practitioners to develop care management in the future. The book reveals social workers are increasingly bogged down with bureaucracy, leaving them with less time to spend with elderly people. It also highlights funding difficulties, with local authorities unable to afford to spend cash on preventative work.
Transforming community care: a distorted vision?
- Authors:
- GORMAN Helen, POSTLE Karen
- Publisher:
- Venture Press
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 103p.,bibliog.
The authors use their research to show powerfully how a generation of social workers have been disillusioned by care management. They also use their own practice experience with older people to demonstrate the continuing possibilities for social work to empower service users and practitioners to develop care management in the future. The book reveals social workers are increasingly bogged down with bureaucracy, leaving them with less time to spend with elderly people. It also highlights funding difficulties, with local authorities unable to afford to spend cash on preventative work.