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His own best advocate
- Author:
- BOND Henrietta
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 8.7.99, 1999, pp.34-35.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Enabling an elderly person to return home after a lengthy hospital stay can be a testing time for all. Describes the case of how a social worker balanced the need to help a client return home against the safety risk.
A place of my own
- Author:
- BOND Henrietta
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 1.4.99, 1999, pp.30-31.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Looks at what to do when clients want to live independently, but that wish is actively opposed by families.
Last wishes granted
- Author:
- BOND Henrietta
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 20.8.98, 1998, pp.26-27.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
A social worker describes the case of an elderly man who, when he discovered he was terminally ill with cancer, decided he wanted to be reunited with his long-abandoned daughters.
Home truths
- Author:
- BOND Henrietta
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 23.4.98, 1998, pp.30-31.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
The author interviews a social worker on the question of how he resolved the problem of where an elderly service user should live.
Stability and chaos
- Author:
- BOND Henrietta
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 18.6.98, 1998, pp.28-29.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
An 11-year-old needs help to cope when his elderly parent is taken ill and there are problems with the remaining family and foster carers. Talks to social worker Ken Jehan about how he dealt with just such a situation.