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Control or co-operation?
- Author:
- GEORGE Mike
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 9.8.01, 2001, pp.34-35.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Senior practitioner David Godfrey has been trying to improve the living conditioned of an older women with a personality disorder for the past seven years. The author reports on the difficulties of providing help to an unco-operative client while giving them a large amount of independence.
No safety at home
- Author:
- GEORGE Mike
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 10.8.00, 2000, pp.32-33.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
A sixty-year-old women who misuses alcohol is being regularly assaulted by her grandson in her own home as he looks to her for money to fund drug and alcohol use. Yet she has a history of refusing help. Mike George talks to Alison Beattie, the worker who has succeeded in supporting the woman.
Rights and duties
- Author:
- GEORGE Mike
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 1.6.00, 2000, pp.28-29.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
An older person with Alzheimer's disease is proving a danger to herself and others but refuses to leave her neglected home to go into residential care. The author talks to a social worker about the case and the difficulty of striking the right balance between clients' rights and her duty of care.
Risk factor: tough talking
- Author:
- GEORGE Mike
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 24.2.00, 2000, pp.28-29.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Social care staff are often left to pick up the pieces where people with personality disorders are concerned. The author spoke to care home manager Manuela Santorum about a difficult situation she faced.
A sensitive mission
- Author:
- GEORGE Mike
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 28.1.00, 2000, pp.32-33.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
The author talks to members of an older people's team who performed a delicate balancing act to protect an elderly widow and her daughter with learning difficulties without upsetting family relationships.
Sliding into dementia
- Author:
- GEORGE Mike
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 7.5.98, 1998, pp.24-25.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Provides an account of the factors which influences an approved social worker's decisions about the care of an elderly man with dementia and his frail elderly wife.
Husbands and wives
- Author:
- GEORGE Mike
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 3.7.97, 1997, pp.26-27.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
A frail elderly woman at risk of abuse does not want to move into a nursing home despite fears for her safety. Talks to a social worker who succeeded in gaining her client's trust.
Rights and wrongs?
- Author:
- GEORGE Mike
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 17.5.01, 2001, pp.36-37.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
An older couple with deteriorating physical and mental health and poor command of English provided a social worker with the tough task of co-ordinating different agencies to ensure the couple's health and well being while respecting their human rights.
Breaking the cycle
- Author:
- GEORGE Mike
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 24.8.00, 2000, pp.30-31.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
An older woman with mental health problems has been going back and forth from her house to hospital for many years. Now, she has been referred to an assertive outreach team. Her social worker explains how the team has attempted to improve the well being of the client.
Building for the future
- Author:
- GEORGE Mike
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 13.7.00, 2000, pp.32-33.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
A social worker talks to the author about how she walked a difficult line when trying to help her elderly client who did not want housing repairs despite the dangerous condition of her property.