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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.
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.
Short-term persistent depression following hip fracture: a risk factor and target to increase resilience in elderly people
- Authors:
- ZIMMERMAN Sheryl Itkin, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work Research, 23(3), September 1999, pp.187-196.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
Persistent depression is a risk factor for poor recovery following hip fracture in older people. The purpose of this American study is to clarify the relationship between depression and functional recovery at one year and to investigate which characteristics discriminate people who are at greatest risk of poor outcomes. Results suggest that persistent depression as a marker for poor recovery generalizes beyond hip fracture.
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.
Social work with older adults and their families: changing practice paradigms
- Authors:
- GREENE Roberta R., COHEN Harriet L.
- Journal article citation:
- Families in Society, 86(3), July 2005, pp.367-373.
- Publisher:
- The Alliance for Children and Families
Given the far-reaching social, economic, and demographic changes in the aging population, the authors argue for a methodological and practice-oriented transformation in future geriatric social work. The authors suggest that if they are to maintain their independence and well-being, a resilience-enhancing social work intervention will be especially effective in fostering the specific survival skills that older adults often already utilize to help them cope with difficult situations. A risk-resilience model sensitive to ethnic difference and practiced at multiple systems levels (e.g., the community) is offered as an advancement of the traditional models of social work practice. In conclusion, the authors emphasize the value of a strengths perspective to address the pressing issues that affect the aging population.
Risk and risk taking in health and social welfare
- Author:
- TITTERTON Mike
- Publisher:
- Jessica Kingsley
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 160p.bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
How can a social worker assess the risk that an older person with dementia faces? How would a nurse or housing support worker decide on the balance between danger and safety? In cases of potentially serious harm, as in the examples of abused children or sex offenders, can risk taking work? In this book, the author offers a model of risk work in health and social care. He argues that a thoughtful risk-taking approach can lead to empowerment and greater independence for vulnerable individuals. The author explores the dilemmas frequently faced when working with older people, homeless persons, and people with physical or learning disabilities or with mental illness, and proposes a systematic framework for assessing and managing the risks involved. He also discusses contemporary theories and definitions of risk, and identifies the essential skills needed by professionals, with an emphasis on developing creative approaches to practice.
Suicide and the elderly: issues for clinical practice
- Author:
- ROFF Sherri
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Gerontological Social Work, 34(2), 2001, pp.21-36.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
Suicide is the eighth leading cause of death in the United States, representing a significant public health problem. The elderly accounting for 20 percent of the nation's suicides despite accounting for only 13 percent of the population. This article presents an overview of the major demographic, social and psychological factors involved in suicide among the elderly: briefly discusses the theoretical underpinnings of the study of suicide; and addresses the ethical dilemmas of clinical practice with suicidal elderly, and offers implications for social work practice and suggestions for future research.
Development of a test of physical performance for the nursing home setting
- Authors:
- DIWAN Sadhna, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Gerontologist, 41(5), October 2001, pp.680-686.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
This article presents a brief screening tool to help case managers in the USA. Identify clients in a home and community-based services (HCBS) programme who need more intensive social work case management (CM). Using existing data from a case management time study and a content analysis of 70 cases in a Medicaid waiver-funded HCBS programme, this study highlights a number of issues, such as dementia-related behaviour problems, noncomplicance with treatment, poor informal caregiver health and mental health, and conflicted or problematic relationship between client and caregiver, which are useful in predicting need for intensive case management. Kappas for inerrater reliability and tests for discriminant validity show these items to be reliable and valid. This tool will allow for better allocation of CM resources in terms of case manager time and type expertise needed to address these issues.
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.