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Family carers' experiences using support services in Europe: empirical evidence from the EUROFAMCARE study
- Authors:
- LAMURA Giovanni, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Gerontologist, 48(6), December 2008, pp.752-771.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
This article explores the experiences of family carers of older people in using support services in six European countries: Germany, Greece, Italy, Poland, Sweden, and the UK. Following a common protocol, data were collected from national samples of approximately 1,000 family carers per country and clustered into comparable subgroups to facilitate cross-national analysis. Carers' use of available support services is limited across Europe but is considerably higher in Germany, Sweden, and the UK than in Poland, Greece, and Italy. Service use is more prevalent among wives and carers with stronger support networks and less frequent among working daughters with high levels of burden, suggesting the need for a reconsideration of eligibility criteria and better targeting of service responses. Access to and use of services is characterized by a divide between carers in northwestern Europe, who experience few difficulties other than the older person's refusal to accept the support offered, and carers in southeastern Europe, where service affordability and poor transportation present remarkable barriers. Concerns regarding the timeliness and quality of support are common to all countries. European Union-wide efforts to improve carer support need to focus on improving the care system's ability to provide timely, high-quality care delivered by staff who treat the older person with dignity and respect, and to enhance cooperation between health professionals (in all countries), informal networks (especially in southeastern Europe), social services (particularly in Sweden and the UK), and voluntary organizations (in Germany and the UK).
S.A.V.E. Support and Advice for Vulnerable Elders: working with abused elders and their families in Lewisham; second year event
- Author:
- LEWISHAM. Social Services Department
- Publisher:
- Lewisham. Social Services Department
- Publication year:
- 1995
- Pagination:
- 11p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Outlines the aims and achievements of the S.A.V.E. project operating in Lewisham in its final year. It is a multi-agency project to develop new initiatives with respect to the mistreatment of older people in Lewisham and is funded by the Home Office Programme Development Unit.
Transforming community services: demonstrating and measuring achievement: community indicators for quality improvement
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 2011
- Pagination:
- 71p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This document introduces 43 indicators for quality improvement for voluntary, local use in a community setting. These carefully chosen quality indicators are designed to assist local service improvement and help to raise the standard of care delivered to patients and communities. The indicators are grouped into the following categories: health and wellbeing; children and families; acute care; rehabilitation; long term conditions; end of life; general. To get the best from the community indicators, it is important to select those that measure what is valued and what matters to the people who use local services, and which instigate and inform dialogue about where improvement is needed. These indicators should help clinicians and frontline services to measure and monitor quality improvement, by indicating where change is needed and demonstrating what high quality personalised care looks like.
Building on personal networks when intervening with multi-problem poor families
- Author:
- SOUSA Liliana
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Social Work Practice, 19(2), July 2005, pp.163-179.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
With the aim of analyzing the strengths which exist in the personal social networks of members of multi-problem poor families, a sample of 100 members of these families was surveyed, using a structured interview. The main results of this exploratory Portuguese study suggest that: strong family ties constitute a resource to be taken into account; friends and neighbours are a resource that needs to be activated; the members of these families need to develop more reciprocal relationships within their personal network; emotional support is an open door towards the activation of other forms of support; it is necessary to give special attention to two sub-groups (women and the elderly).
A timely reminder
- Author:
- HOPKINS Graham
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 10.02.05, 2005, pp.40-41.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Two care professionals discuss with the author the case of an 83-year-old woman with cognitive impairment who lived alone. They discuss how they handled the case when she became a danger to herself and could no longer live alone by ensuring she had family and agency support.
Modern Social Services a commitment to the future: the 12th Annual Report of the Chief Inspector of Social Services 2002-2003
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health. Social Services Inspectorate
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health. Social Services Inspectorate
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 116p.
- Place of publication:
- London
The report draws on a range of inspection and performance review activity of the Social Services Inspectorate to provide an assessment of performance of councils with social services responsibilities across England. The report illustrates regional highlights and provides information about the activities of SSI.
Personal social services current expenditure in England: 1999-2000
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 12p.
- Place of publication:
- London
The characteristics of Indian subcontinent origin elders newly referred to a psychogeriatric service
- Authors:
- ODUTOYE Koye, SHAH Ajit
- Journal article citation:
- International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 14(6), June 1999, pp.446-453.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Presents the findings of a study designed to compare clinical, social and demographic characteristics between Indian subcontinent origin ethnic elders newly referred to a psychogeriatric service. Results found ethnic elders were younger, had more children, had more people living in their household, were more likely to be married, were less likely to live alone, were more likely to have schizophrenia and less likely to have dementia. There were no differences between the two groups with regard to use of almost all health and social services resources at the time of the referral after the initial assessment. These findings do not support the traditional view that ethnic elders do not adequately access psychogeriatric and social services and that they are primarily cared for be extended families.
A stitch in time
- Authors:
- MILNE Alisoun, MORGAN Dennis
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 3.7.97, 1997, pp.34-35.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
In an effort to direct limited resources to where they are needed, Berkshire social services invested in preventive services. The authors explain how this has helped vulnerable people in the county.
Personal social services expenditure and unit costs England, 2007-08
- Author:
- NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE. Information Centre for Health and Social Care
- Publisher:
- National Health Service. Information Centre for Health and Social Care
- Publication year:
- 2009
- Pagination:
- 26p.
- Place of publication:
- Leeds