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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.
The reliability and validity of the safety assessment of function and the environment for rehabilitation (SAFER Tool)
- Authors:
- LETTS Lori, et al
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Occupational Therapy, 61(3), March 1998, pp.127-132.
- Publisher:
- Sage
This article presents the results of a study undertaken to evaluate the reliability and validity of the Safety Assessment of Function and the Environment for Rehabilitation. The instrument was developed by occupational therapists to evaluate people abilities to manage safely within their home environments. The Safety Assessment of Function and the Environment for Rehabilitation Tool is described, followed by a brief review of the psychometric properties examined in this study.
Remains of the day
- Author:
- BLACK David
- Journal article citation:
- Health Service Journal, 19.2.98, 1998, p.32.
- Publisher:
- Emap Healthcare
The author argues that providers should look at new uses for the day hospital in providing comprehensive elderly care services.
A new lease of life
- Author:
- COTTER Angela
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 20.5.98, 1998, pp.58-59.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
Argues that nurses need to rethink the way they approach rehabilitative care of older people.
The unsound barrier
- Author:
- SEYMOUR Jane
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 20.5.98, 1998, pp.56-58.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
Rehabilitation programmes for older patients have a positive role to play and are cost-effective. The author argues that ageism in the NHS has led to a failure to exploit its potential.
Outlands: five years on
- Authors:
- YOUNGER-ROSS Sue, LOMAX Tess
- Journal article citation:
- Managing Community Care, 6(1), February 1998, pp.37-40.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
The 'Outlands Pilot' was a joint project set up in 1992 by Devon Social Services Department and the Health Authority. It offered an intermediate setting between hospital and home. Elderly people who had been assessed as needing residential care after discharge from hospital were admitted instead to the Outlands Unit for a six-week period of rehabilitation. The explicit aim was to rebuild people's confidence and physical independence, so that they could manage at home again. Reports on the success of the model and barriers to its wider use.
Community care, secondary health care and care management
- Editors:
- CHALLIS David, DARTON Robin, STEWART Karen
- Publisher:
- Ashgate
- Publication year:
- 1998
- Pagination:
- 178p.,diags.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- Aldershot
Contains papers on: care management and community care; community care and health care for older people; findings and lessons for care management, health care and community care from the Darlington study; the Darlington service past, present and future; the Cornwall experience with assessment and rehabilitation teams in the community; standardised assessment in the community; social services departments, secondary health care and community care; cost opportunities and constraints in developing secondary health care in the community; and linking community and health care.
Sexual issues within occupational therapy, part 1: attitudes and practice
- Author:
- COULDRICK Lorna
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Occupational Therapy, 61(12), December 1998, pp.538-544.
- Publisher:
- Sage
This article describes a qualitative study which considered if a client's sexual expression was a legitimate domain of concern of the occupational therapist. The research used an inductive strategy of depth interviews with practitioners who represented a breadth of practice. The focus of the study was to discover the attitudes, practice and confidence of occupational therapists to address sexual issues. This part reviews relevant literature, outlines the methodology and briefly reports the results.
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.
Needs assessment and community care: clinical practice and policy making
- Editor:
- BALDWIN Steve
- Publisher:
- Butterworth-Heinemann
- Publication year:
- 1998
- Pagination:
- 236p.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- Oxford
Reviews approaches to needs assessment and shows how they allow more precise focusing on requirements for individuals. Includes papers on: where theory of need meets practice in mental health services; the conceptual foundation of assessing health care needs; assessment of need and case management; needs assessment in a rehabilitation service; assessing the needs of people with severe mental health problems; needs assessment in older people suffering from communication difficulties and or cognitive impairment; choice in community care; feminist perspectives on community care in Australia; aspects of informal care in Northern Ireland; psychosocial intervention in nursing; Slovene mental health services; care of people with chronic mental disorders - a European/American perspective; the process of transforming an old fashioned hospital into a modern treatment centre; survivor led research in human services; and assessing learning outcomes in post-qualifying community care training.