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User panel project: seminar report Silverburn 16 November 1992
- Author:
- AGE CONCERN SCOTLAND
- Publisher:
- Age Concern
- Publication year:
- 1992
- Pagination:
- 24p.
- Place of publication:
- Kirkcaldy
Seminar report on a project which aims to establish panels of older people who are community care service users and potential users.
Comes safe home: a review of registered residential and nursing care in the United Kingdom
- Author:
- MIDWINTER Eric
- Publisher:
- Elderly Accommodation Counsel
- Publication year:
- 1992
- Pagination:
- 100p.,tables.
- Place of publication:
- London
Report of a review of 7307 registered residential care and nursing homes, providing a comprehensive area by area source of data on the costs of staying in a home, the accommodation and facilities provided and the basic needs of residents.
User views on services for older people in Wigton
- Author:
- EAST CUMBRIA COMMUNITY HEALTH COUNCIL
- Publisher:
- East Cumbria Community Health Council
- Publication year:
- 1992
- Pagination:
- 30p.
- Place of publication:
- Carlisle
Details how East Cumbria Community Health Council set about consulting older users of their services. Looks at how the exercise was carried out and details the results.
What kind of care: summary report of a survey of satisfaction with community services for elderly people with mental health problems in Leeds NW and Leeds SE
- Author:
- BULLIVANT Maxine
- Publisher:
- Leeds Community Health Council
- Publication year:
- 1992
- Pagination:
- 4p.
- Place of publication:
- Leeds
User-involvement: the view from service users
- Authors:
- RAISON Barbara, LUPTON Carol
- Publisher:
- Hampshire. Social Services Department
- Publication year:
- 1992
- Pagination:
- 38p.,tables.
- Place of publication:
- Winchester
Sets out to identify the experience and views of those service users who had been involved in various aspects of Hampshire SSD's work. Client groups surveyed include older people, users of mental health services, and people with disabilities.
Let's go wheelies: ill-conceived behaviours amongst staff caring for people with dementia
- Author:
- LODGE Brian
- Publisher:
- British Association for Service to the Elderly
- Publication year:
- 1992
- Pagination:
- 69p.
- Place of publication:
- Newcastle-under-Lyme
Series of stories illustrating ill-conceived behaviour among staff caring for people with dementia, mainly in hospital settings. Each story is accompanied by suggestions for alternative, more appropriate behaviour from the staff member involved.
A response to the London Borough of Brent draft community care plan 1992-95: based on consultation meetings with pensioners' groups, individual pensioners and voluntary organisations working with older people
- Authors:
- AGE CONCERN, BRENT PENSIONERS' FORUM
- Publisher:
- Age Concern
- Publication year:
- 1992
- Pagination:
- 16p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Women, oppression and social work: issues in anti-discriminatory practice
- Editors:
- LANGAN Mary, DAY Lesley
- Publisher:
- Routledge
- Publication year:
- 1992
- Pagination:
- 259p.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- London
Offers a new perspective on feminist social work which takes into account the complexity of manifold oppressions that affect the lives of most women and most social work clients. Includes chapters on: race, class and gender; women in the mixed economy of care; feminism, managerialism and performance measurement; social work education; black single mothers; women with learning difficulties; women in residential work; lesbians, the state and social work practice; and social work and older women.
From concept to reality: the Danish experience in caring for elderly people: a conference and exhibition ... 27th-28th August 1992; conference speeches
- Authors:
- STRATHCLYDE. Social Work Department, DANISH CULTURAL INSTITUTE
- Publisher:
- Strathclyde. Social Work Department
- Publication year:
- 1992
- Pagination:
- 15p.
- Place of publication:
- Glasgow
Contains 2 papers: social integration of older people - the Aalborg integrated care scheme with more and better service for the same or less money; and development trends within ageing policy over the last few years.
Quality counts: achieving quality in social care services
- Editors:
- KELLY Des, WARR Bridget
- Publisher:
- Whiting and Birch
- Publication year:
- 1992
- Pagination:
- 240p.,diags.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- London
Aimed at social services and social work departments, trainers, inspection and registration staff, private and voluntary care providers, residential homes, special schools, sheltered workshops, advice agencies, client support groups, and legal personnel in local government and private practice. Contains chapters on: what is meant by quality in social care; approaches to quality systems; quality and its social construction by managers in care service organisations; establishing standards in social care; the role of inspection and evaluation in social care; use of checklists in inspection and quality assurance in elderly person's homes; training for quality; user participation in quality assurance; total quality management; and the challenges of the quest for quality in social care services.