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Going Dutch
- Author:
- COHEN Phil
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work Today, 25.10.90, 1990, pp.15-17.
- Publisher:
- British Association of Social Workers
Concerned by rising demand for and costs of residential care, social work in the Netherlands is moving towards a mixture of residential and domiciliary care to best meet the user's need.
Making history
- Author:
- KING Jane
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 25.10.90, 1990, pp.29-31.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Walton House resource centre for elderly people in Waltham Forest is about to be transferred to a housing consortium.
Protected to blazes
- Author:
- BUSH Simon
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 30.8.90, 1990, p.13.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Claims that draconian fire regulations mean that elderly people are becoming incarcerated in some residential homes, and argues for a code of conduct based on calculated risk.
A place in the sun
- Author:
- EATON Lynn
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work Today, 16.8.90, 1990, pp.14-15.
- Publisher:
- British Association of Social Workers
Residencia Carmen is a publicly owned residential care home for the elderly in Spain - very large by British standards, but with the feel of a holiday complex rather than an institution.
Self sufficiency in residence
- Author:
- JERVIS Margaret
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work Today, 3.5.90, 1990, pp.20-21.
- Publisher:
- British Association of Social Workers
Residents at the Lore Agnes House, in Dusseldorf, suffer from mental illness, often in addition to dementia. The home offers a form of family living.
Incentives for change
- Author:
- FIELDING Nick
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 29.3.90, 1990, pp.26-27.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Impending changes to benefits for elderly people in residential accommodation have given councils the incentive to sell or transfer their homes.
Residential accommodation for the elderly, younger physically handicapped and blind: year ended 31 March 1989
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Welsh Office
- Publisher:
- Welsh Office
- Publication year:
- 1990
- Pagination:
- 57p., tables.
- Place of publication:
- Cardiff
Sheltered in-dependence?: a comparative evaluation of ordinary and enhanced sheltered schemes for elderly persons
- Author:
- LUPTON Carol
- Publisher:
- Portsmouth Polytechnic. Social Services Research and Information Unit
- Publication year:
- 1990
- Pagination:
- 140p., tables, bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Portsmouth
Examines the nature of enhanced sheltered accommodation for elderly people in Hampshire SSD, in comparison to traditional sheltered schemes.
Alternative homes for people with dementia: new directions in service principles and design
- Author:
- LODGE Brian
- Publisher:
- British Association for Service to the Elderly
- Publication year:
- 1990
- Pagination:
- 26p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Newcastle-under-Lyme
Booklet that aims to provide guidelines on principles of care for people with dementia in residential care; to describe the types of residential care available and what is desirable and undesirable about them; to emphasise the need for cooperation between statutory bodies in service provision; and to put new developments in an historical perspective.
Information about residential care: the underlying issues
- Author:
- STEELE Jane
- Publisher:
- Policy Studies Institute
- Publication year:
- 1990
- Pagination:
- 28p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Explores the nature of the information which is needed when people make the transition to or from residential care and at the role of information in Social Services Departments, information needs of clients in general and of those.