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Tools and techniques for making life better
- Authors:
- POTTER P., WISEMAN V.
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work Today, 6.7.89, 1989, pp.20-21.
- Publisher:
- British Association of Social Workers
Examines activities used to help staff in a residential home for the elderly change their practice and offer residents more control over their lives.
Changing services for older people: the Neighbourhood Support Units innovation
- Authors:
- WALKER Alan, WARREN Lorna
- Publisher:
- Open University Press
- Publication year:
- 1996
- Pagination:
- 196p.,tables,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Buckingham
Presents findings from a research project evaluating the outcomes of the Neighbourhood Support Units innovation in Sheffield. Key issues raised include the goals to create more flexible tailor made services and the promotion of user and carer responsive forms of community care provision.
Champions, allies or irritants? Reform begins
- Authors:
- POTTER P., WISEMAN V.
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work Today, 13.7.89, 1989, pp.22-23.
- Publisher:
- British Association of Social Workers
The final of four articles on introducing change in residential homes for the elderly - the process of change is never simple, controllable or predictable.
Net curtains and flowers
- Authors:
- WISEMAN V., POTTER P.
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work Today, 22.6.89, 1989, pp.15-16.
- Publisher:
- British Association of Social Workers
Describes a project which attempted to help staff in two residential homes for the elderly to offer residents greater opportunity for choice, control and privacy in their lives.
Community care with older people: strategies for the 1990s; papers from a seminar.
- Editors:
- BERNARD Miriam, GLENDENNING Frank
- Publisher:
- Beth Johnson Foundation
- Publication year:
- 1989
- Pagination:
- 95p., tables, bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- Stoke-on-Trent
Includes a critique and overview of the Griffiths Report; and papers on planning for community care; relations between health and social services; client choice; participation and satisfaction, and gives an outline of seven innovative projects.
Investigating the health needs of older people in the community
- Authors:
- McCABE Roseana, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Community Practitioner, 73(11), November 2000, pp.832-834.
- Publisher:
- Community Practitioners' and Health Visitors' Association
Public involvement in development and management in a NHS Plan objective but it has proved hard to achieve. This article describes how an inner-city practice engaged older patients in a debate about health in later life and the need to change the ways in which health services work.
Reducing the impact of major organisational change among senior center participants
- Author:
- NESOFF Irwin
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Gerontological Social Work, 32(1), 1999, pp.19-42.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
Presents findings from a sample of senior centres in the United States which underwent transition from direct government operations to nonprofit sponsorship. Through interviews, senior centre members views on the change of sponsorship were sought. Areas focused on the food and meal services, the physical facility, staffing and programmes. Broader themes emerging from the interviews also included: the need to communicate the reason for the change; developing a positive connection to the new sponsor on the part of the participants; creating concrete improvements in the services that members can point to; and recognising the strong bond with prior operational methods by participants with a prior change to membership. Goes on to discuss the importance of considering participant resistance to change in planning and implementing successful change.
Quality care for elderly people
- Editors:
- MAYER Peter P., DICKINSON Edward J., SANDLER Martin
- Publisher:
- Chapman and Hall
- Publication year:
- 1997
- Pagination:
- 310p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Multidisciplinary text aimed at all those working in services for older people, including nurses, general practitioners, geriatricians, community health councils, social workers, quality managers, purchasers, and providers. Presents a practical, user centred approach to the provision of high quality care. In four parts: part one outlines the consumer approach to service provision; part two discusses the contribution of different sectors in the health service; part three concentrates on team building and training; and part four deals with managing change, evaluating quality, and future developments. The overall emphasis of the book is on the quality of health care, with consideration give to: clinical audit; other quality assurance initiatives; ethical matters; and the NHS and Community Care Act 1990.
Taking a knife to the pilchards
- Authors:
- WISEMAN V., POTTER P.
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work Today, 29.6.89, 1989, pp.16-17.
- Publisher:
- British Association of Social Workers
Reports on staff and resident response to an initiative aimed to improve choice, control and privacy for residents in two residential homes for the elderly.
Policy and change
- Editors:
- SMITH Randall, RAISTRICK Jane
- Publisher:
- University of Bristol. School for Advanced Urban Studies
- Publication year:
- 1994
- Pagination:
- 450p.,tables,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- Bristol
Collection of papers drawing together recent research into changes in social policy over the last 10 years. Examines both the pressures for change and the impact that it has had on major policy areas. Chapters focus on urban policy, health and social care, housing, and labour markets. Also looks at: management in the public sector; quality and decentralisation; the changing role of the non-profit sector; information technology and organisational change; quasi-markets and social policy; privatisation and quasi-markets; the NHS and health care expenditure; user empowerment and older people; the housing market; and the Social Charter and Europeanisation of employment and social policy.