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Falls squad keeps users out of hospital
- Author:
- GRIFFITHS Julie
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 4.2.10, 2010, pp.30-31.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
A pilot project in Hertfordshire helps older people avoid unnecessary trips to A&E. Social workers are included in responding to 999 calls from people aged over 65 who have suffered a fall at home.
Assessing the mental health needs of older people
- Author:
- SOCIAL CARE INSTITUTE FOR EXCELLENCE
- Publisher:
- Social Care Institute for Excellence
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Place of publication:
- London
- Edition:
- Rev. ed.
This web-based resource provides an overview of information and current practice to all those involved in assessing the social care needs of older people with mental health needs. It is aimed primarily at practitioners undertaking assessments, in particular, those front-line staff who may be the first professional in contact with an older person or their family and friends. The Guide provides access to the information and skills that inform sound judgements in the support of service users and carers. Its coverage includes: messages from research; current policy and guidance; service users and carers; the social workers role in assessment; assessing need; black and minority ethnic older people; implications of the Mental Health Act 1983; and interagency working. Also incorporated in the contents are practice and service examples, useful further reading and links to additional information on the web and to full text of official guidance and standards. (Previously published as SCIE Practice Guide no. 2).
Integrating social workers into primary care: physician and nurse perceptions of roles, benefits, and challenges
- Authors:
- KEEFE Bronwyn, GERON Scott Miyake, ENGUIDANOS Susan
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work in Health Care, 48(6), August 2009, pp.579-596.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
The primary aim of this article is to identify, from the perspective of primary care physicians and nurses, the challenges encountered in the provision of health care to older adults and to identify potential roles, challenges, and benefits of integrating social workers into primary care teams. As more older adults live longer with multiple chronic conditions, primary care has been confronted with complex psychosocial problems that interact with medical problems, pointing to a potential role for the social worker. Three focus groups of primary care physicians and nurses at 2 primary care clinics of a managed care organisation in a large metropolitan area were used to explore the benefits and challenges of integrating social workers into the primary care team. The focus groups discussed the perceived unmet needs of frail elders in the community, the roles social workers can play in addressing the needs of frail older adults, perceived challenges in integrating social workers in primary care, and ways in which social workers can improve service delivery and effectiveness of care. The results clearly identified a need for social workers in primary care practices, with both doctors and nurses feeling that this would result in improved patient care and outcomes both in response to patient problems and as a preventive measure to avoid crisis situations. The results also indicated a need to provide more information, particularly to physicians, about the skills and training of social workers, in order to maximise their impact as members of effective interdisciplinary teams.
Home and hospital; hospice and palliative care: how the environment impacts the social work role
- Author:
- LAWSON Robin
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Social Work in End-of-Life and Palliative Care, 3(2), November 2007, pp.3-17.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia
Social workers play key roles within interdisciplinary hospice teams, which in the USA generally deliver care in the home, and in hospital-based oncology and palliative care teams. These different environments influence the role of the social worker, and the scope of care that is provided. This paper examines the similarities and differences between the two settings in the coordination of care and teamwork, and discusses collaboration between them in order to highlight opportunities for enhancing clinical social work skills and developing confidence in asserting social work expertise with colleagues from other disciplines. (Copies of this article are available from: Haworth Document Delivery Centre, Haworth Press Inc., 10 Alice Street, Binghamton, NY 13904-1580).
United we stand? Partnership working in health and social care and the role of social work in services for older people
- Author:
- LYMBERY Mark
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Social Work, 36(7), October 2006, pp.1119-1134.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
The concepts of ‘partnership’ and ‘collaboration’ have become amongst the most critical themes of ‘new’ Labour’s social policy, particularly in respect of the delivery of health and social care. Although the terms are rarely precisely defined and hence have become problematic to analyse, in most understandings successful partnerships rely upon good systems of inter-professional collaboration. Through revisiting the extensive literature on the sociology of the professions, and the nature of inter-professional working, this paper will argue that effective collaborative working within health and social care is hard to achieve, particularly in the light of the vast differences in power and culture between various occupational groupings, and the inherently competitive nature of professions jostling for territory in the same areas of activity. It suggests that these issues cannot be resolved unless they are properly understood; a rhetorical appeal to the unmitigated benefits of ‘partnership’ alone will not produce more effective joint working. In addition, it notes that an appropriate role for social work in the context of partnership working has yet to be defined and proposes specific tasks and values that distinguish the social worker from other related professionals.
Educational approaches for preparing social work students for interdisciplinary teamwork on geriatric health care teams
- Authors:
- HOWE Judith L., et al
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work in Health Care, 32(4), 2001, pp.19-42.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
As social workers become more involved in working with older people in the coming years, their success will hinge on collaboration with other health providers. School social work and clinical sites must address this through the development of educational curricula and clinical programmes which prepare social workers to work on interdisciplinary geriatric health care teams. Based on the experience of the national Geriatric Interdisciplinary Team Training (GITT) Programme in the USA, this article presents an overview of the necessary team skills for social workers, educational methods for teaching teamwork developed at the GITT sites, and some teaching challenges.
The practice makes perfect
- Authors:
- FRANK Judith, ROMEO Lyn
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 27.11.97, 1997, p.25.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Explains how in a bid to provide an integrated health and social care service for older people, social services care managers were placed in four GP surgeries in West Yorkshire.
Adult social work and high-risk domestic violence cases
- Authors:
- MCLAUGHLIN Hugh, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Social Work, 18(3), 2018, pp.288-306.
- Publisher:
- Sage
Summary: This article focuses on adult social work’s response in England to high-risk domestic violence cases and the role of adult social workers in multi-agency risk and assessment conferences. The research was undertaken between 2013 and 2014 and focused on one city in England and involved the research team attending multi-agency risk and assessment conferences. Interviews with 20 adult social workers, 24 multi-agency risk and assessment conferences attendees, 14 adult service users at time T1 (including follow-up interviews after six months, T2), focus groups with independent domestic violence advocates and Women’s Aid and an interview with a Women’s Aid service user. Findings: The findings suggest that although adult social workers accept the need to be involved in domestic violence cases they are uncertain of what their role is and are confused with the need to operate a parallel domestic violence and adult safeguarding approach, which is further, complicated by issues of mental capacity. Multi-agency risk and assessment conferences are identified as overburdened, under-represented meetings staffed by committed managers. However, they are in danger of becoming managerial processes neglecting the service users they are meant to protect. Applications: The article argues for a re-engagement of adult social workers with domestic violence that has increasingly become over identified with child protection. It also raises the issue whether multi-agency risk and assessment conferences remain fit for purpose and whether they still represent the best possible response to multi-agency coordination and practice in domestic violence. (Edited publisher abstract)
Integrating health and social care: implications for joint working and community care outcomes for older people
- Authors:
- DAVEY Barbara, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Interprofessional Care, 19(1), January 2005, pp.22-43.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
In England, the theme of promoting collaborative working between social and primary health care remains high on the policy agenda. The underlying assumption, largely untested, is that a greater degree of structural integration benefits service users. This paper reports the findings from a feasibility study comparing two models of joint working and examining the relative impact of personal characteristics, service use and co-location on the likelihood of older people remaining in the community. Baseline standardised interviews with 79 older people aged 75 + with complex needs in two social services departments were carried out following referral, covering social circumstances, physical and mental health and services received, with follow-up interviews after six months. Contacts between social workers and primary care were tracked. The findings suggest that co-location does not necessarily lead to substantially closer interprofessional working in terms of greater contact between social workers and GPs or social workers and community nurses. Factors affecting outcome were degree of cognitive impairment, intensity of home care received and whether the older person lived alone. Whatever the model of collaborative working, its effects on remaining in the community must be assessed in the wider context of the characteristics and services received by older people.
Crossover culture
- Author:
- -
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 15.5.03, 2003, pp.56-58.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Looks at three innovative projects where health and social care professionals have been working together. Features a project providing therapy for drug and alcohol misusers, a project on continence at a day centre for older people; and working with black and ethnic minority volunteers to tackle mental health problems in their communities.