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Keeping together
- Author:
- BOND Henrietta
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 20.6.96, 1996, p.23.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
The idea of splitting up elderly couples who need different levels of care is abhorrent. The author asks why the suggestion ever came to be considered.
Protection of the elderly under the constitution
- Author:
- DU PLESSIS L.M.
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work Maatskaplike Werk, 32(1), 1996, pp.45-52.
Focuses on the plight of the exploited and thereby oppressed elderly, exploring new opportunities to address their dilemma. These opportunities have presented themselves with the birth of a new (albeit transitional) constitution. Argues that their proper exploration will require planning and well-strategised efforts from those who take the plight of the maltreated elderly to heart.
Advocacy and dementia
- Author:
- KILLEEN Jan
- Publisher:
- Alzheimer Scotland
- Publication year:
- 1996
- Pagination:
- 65p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
Advocacy means speaking for someone or for a group of people, particularly to defend their rights or to promote their interests. Advocacy has special relevance to people who are disadvantaged in some way and consequently are less able to speak for themselves. People with dementia need advocates for four key reasons: they may be vulnerable to physical, emotional and financial abuse; they need support at times of transition when a major decision about their future care has to be reached; to ensure they receive their legal entitlements; and to safeguard the quality of their care. Advocacy can take many different forms, including self-advocacy, lay or citizen advocacy, professional advocacy, legal advocacy and collective advocacy. The most vulnerable people with dementia are those living at home or in long-stay care who have no ‘natural advocates’, namely close family or friends to support their interests. There is a need for more work to identify with greater precision those people with dementia who need independent advocacy.
The right to choose
- Author:
- GEORGE Mike
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 3.10.96, 1996, pp.32-33.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Describes one social worker's dilemma when faced with an elderly woman who was at risk, but still wanted to make her own decisions.
The right staff to fit the bill
- Author:
- NAZARKO Linda
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 31.7.96, 1996, pp.44-45.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
In the first of a series of articles exploring a campaign for an Older Persons Bill of Rights, the author examines why older people are not receiving assessments from properly trained and qualified nursing staff.
The fight-for-rights
- Author:
- THOMPSON Audrey
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 18.7.96, 1996, pp.14-15.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
The author writes that disabled people, elderly people with learning difficulties are all speaking out loudly to be heard.
Can we afford the NHS?
- Authors:
- WORDSWORTH Sarah, DONALDSON Cam, SCOTT Anthony
- Publisher:
- Institute for Public Policy Research
- Publication year:
- 1996
- Pagination:
- 37p.,diags.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Addresses the debate around the growing burden on the NHS and the consequences of this in the light of the population's rights of access to NHS health care. The paper aims to present alternative economic perspectives on the funding of the NHS. Issues addressed include the ageing population, rationing, and the need to define a core set of services to which everyone is entitled.
Ethics of 'informed consent' in dementia research: the debate continues
- Authors:
- AGARWAL Manoj R., et al
- Journal article citation:
- International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 11(9), September 1996, pp.801-806.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
The Law Commission has recently proposed a legal test of capacity to consent to treatment. Consent to treatment in phase three trials in Alzheimer's Disease is usually obtained from both the subject and a carer or next of kin. This article examines the relevance of the Law Commission recommendations in accessing informed consent from early dementia sufferers and their carers subjected to a double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of a potentially therapeutic agent. Asks whether a single 'test' for informed consent, with stringent criteria, is likely to impede future research activity in dementia patients. Also argues that the role and involvement of carers in the decision-making process need to be considered so that subjects are not unnecessarily excluded.
Financial management and elderly people with dementia in the U.K.: as much a question of confusion as abuse?
- Authors:
- LANGAN Joan, MEANS Robin
- Journal article citation:
- Ageing and Society, 16(3), May 1996, pp.287-314.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
Looks at a range of issues relating to financial management and elderly people with dementia. Discusses the law relating to personal finances for those who lack capacity, stressing the laws complexity and the gaps in present coverage. The article goes on to outline findings from research carried out within a social services authority in the north of England.
A better home life: a code of good practice for residential and nursing home care; report of an advisory group convened by the Centre for Policy on Ageing and chaired by Kina, Lady Avebury
- Author:
- CENTRE FOR POLICY ON AGEING
- Publisher:
- Centre for Policy on Ageing
- Publication year:
- 1996
- Pagination:
- 162p.,list of orgs.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Companion volume to the Centre for Policy on Ageing's first code of practice for residential care, 'Home life'. This volume also covers nursing homes and other care settings and reflects major changes since 1984, including the NHS and Community Care Act 1990. Gives clear guidance on aspects of care and management, underpinned throughout by the recognition of the rights of older people to be treated as individuals with dignity and respect.