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Personal social services survey of home care users in England aged 65 and over, 2006-06
- Author:
- NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE. Information Centre for Health and Social Care
- Publisher:
- National Health Service. Information Centre for Health and Social Care
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 48p.
- Place of publication:
- London
The User Experience Survey is run on an annual basis and is used to target areas of particular interest within social services. Opinions are sought over a range of service areas to gain an understanding of users’ views rather than measuring quantities of care delivered. This survey is targeted at clients aged 65 and over receiving home care funded wholly or in part by Social Services. A survey of these clients was last conducted in 2002-03. This survey aims to see how the opinions of these clients have changed in the last 3 years and to gain a better understanding of how different factors effect the overall satisfaction.
Client satisfaction with home care services in rural Russia
- Authors:
- STRUYK Raymond, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Aging and Social Policy, 18(1), 2006, pp.87-105.
- Publisher:
- Routledge
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
This study explores the satisfaction of a sample of 300 frail elders living in a rural Russian area with the support services provided by social service agency staff. The client population lives in extremely difficult conditions in terms of housing and associated communal services. They reported very high levels of satisfaction with the agency-provided services, both general satisfaction and their satisfaction with the specific services received during the reference visit inquired about by the interviewer. The degree of satisfaction is likely related to the difficulty of their living environment and their probable poverty, as well as the quality of services received. Attempts to relate the variance in the satisfaction ratings to the extent of activity limitations and the volume of formal and informal care using multivariate analysis met with limited success, owing in part, at least, to the limited variance in the dependent variables. Nevertheless, the patterns identified are broadly consistent with expectations based on modelling previously done for the U.S. populations receiving at-home care. The results clearly indicate the value of providing such services to frail elders in such circumstances.
Older, wiser and unlikely to present
- Author:
- PATRICK Eleanor
- Journal article citation:
- Therapy Today, 17(3), April 2006, pp.4-8.
- Publisher:
- British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy
In order to understand how older people might use a counselling process, we need to hear their opinions. The author reports on a small study carried out with eight older people in order to find out how older people imagined counselling and whether they might consider bringing their own issues to such a session or series of sessions in an attempt to resolve them.
Using qualitative research in systematic reviews: older people's views of hospital discharge
- Authors:
- SOCIAL CARE INSTITUTE FOR EXCELLENCE, FISHER Mike, et al
- Publisher:
- Social Care Institute for Excellence
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 68p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Systematic reviews are usually restricted to quantitative studies. This report demonstrates how the review process can be extended to a synthesis of qualitative studies using the example of older people’s views on hospital discharge. There were two kinds of evidence about the potential effectiveness of discharge arrangements – the review by Parker showing that support could be successfully provided to older people discharged from hospital, and international evidence from Sweden, where a similar reform had been implemented. Closer examination of this evidence provided some of the key reasons why this qualitative synthesis of older people’s views of hospital discharge was undertaken.
The role of computer tuition in community health: a grounded theory approach
- Authors:
- NYCYK Michael, REDSELL Margaret
- Journal article citation:
- Ageing International, 31(4), 2006, pp.296-308.
- Publisher:
- Springer
- Place of publication:
- New York
This Australian study describes the impact of computer training has on the health outcomes of older adults at a community centre and its implications for influencing computer training practices. The objective of the study was to understand and link this group's self-reports of their health arising from attending lessons to improve the content and delivery of computer tuition.
Psychodynamic ideal types of elderly suicidal persons based on counter transference
- Authors:
- LINDNER R., et al
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Social Work Practice, 20(3), November 2006, pp.347-365.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
In a German systematic qualitative study, in-depth interviews were conducted with 30 people (60+), who judged themselves as suicidal but had not talked about it in treatment. Using the method of ‘forming types by understanding’, ideal types were developed by means of the suicidal elderly's transference offers on the background of their main biographic accounts and their suicidal symptoms. This typology presents the suicidal elderly's varied and multi-reasoned dynamics of psychosocial retreat, which both encourage and maintain suicidality, also leading to the fact that these people keep silent about their suicidality in professional health care relationships, or they contribute to negative counter-transference reactions, which make the start of a therapeutic relationship difficult.
Commissioning community well-being: focus on older people and transport
- Authors:
- MANTHORPE Jill, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Integrated Care, 14(4), August 2006, pp.28-37.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
The authors consider community well-being and new approaches to reinvigorating partnership working for older people's services. In particular they focus on improving transport for older people. The article draws on findings from a series of public consultations, group discussions and interviews with older people in 10 purposively selected localities in England. Although there was great diversity in issues raised by older people on the subject of transport, both across and between the sites, the authors point to a number of core analytical themes which could assist commissioners in developing a citizens' framework designed to address this traditionally 'wicked' issue.
Increasing aging content in social work curriculum: perceptions of key constituents
- Authors:
- KOLOMER Stacey R., et al
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Gerontological Social Work, 48(1/2), 2006, pp.97-110.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
This mixed methodology study examines the perceptions of key constituents regarding methods for effectively integrating aging content into the foundation curriculum of the BSW and MSW program at the University of Georgia School of Social Work. Students were asked to complete a survey to determine their perception of geriatric content that existed within the foundation coursework. Following an analysis of the survey results, eight semi-structured focus group discussions were conducted with a purposeful sample of students, faculty, field instructors, social work alumni, older adults from the community, and representatives from aging agencies. The intention of these focus groups was to find out what aging content should be infused within the curriculum. The focus group meetings were held in various locations throughout Northeast Georgia and in one remote location in South Georgia. Participants were interviewed about the necessary skills and knowledge for social workers practicing with an aging population in the areas of: essential intervention skills, program policies and regulations, critical information needed to develop client service plans, strategies for addressing service delivery fragmentation, and community collaboration to support intergenerational family needs. The results of this study will be discussed to provide suggestions on how existing foundation courses can integrate aging content. (Copies of this article are available from: Haworth Document Delivery Centre, Haworth Press Inc., 10 Alice Street, Binghamton, NY 13904-1580).
Outcomes-focused social care services for older-people and possibilities
- Author:
- SOCIAL POLICY RESEARCH UNIT
- Publisher:
- University of York. Social Policy Research Unit
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 4p.
- Place of publication:
- York
In 2005, the Social Policy Research Unit was invited by the Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE) to review: research and knowledge on outcomes valued by older people; and progress in developing outcome-focused services for older people in England and Wales. This research briefing summarises some of the main findings. The briefing includes discussion of the extent and nature of outcomes focused services; factors that help and hinder outcomes- focused approaches; and a number of case study examples.
Making sense of mild cognitive impairment: a qualitative exploration of the patient's experience
- Authors:
- LINGLER Jennifer Hagerty, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Gerontologist, 46(6), December 2006, pp.791-800.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
The proposed dementia precursor state of mild cognitive impairment is emerging as a primary target of aging research. This study examines, from the patient's perspective, the experience of living with and making sense of the diagnosis pf mild cognitive impairment. Twelve older adults with amnestic or nonamnestic mild cognitive impairment from a university-based memory disorders clinic were recruited for the study. In-home, semi structured interviews were then conducted in order to elicit rich descriptions of the personal experience of having mild cognitive impairment. The qualitative method of grounded theory was used to analyze narrative data. The results found that understanding and coming to terms with the syndrome, or assigning meaning, constituted a fundamental aspect of living with a diagnosis of mild cognitive impairment. This process comprised interrelated emotional and cognitive dimensions. Participants employed a range of positive, neutral, and negative phrasing in order to depict their emotional reactions to receiving a diagnosis. Cognitive representations of mild cognitive impairment included both prognosis-focused and face-value appraisals. Expectations of normal aging, personal experience with dementia, and concurrent health problems were key contextual factors that provided the backdrop against which participants assigned meaning to a diagnosis of mild cognitive impairment. Clinicians who disclose diagnoses of mild cognitive impairment need to be mindful of the potential for varying interpretations of the information that is conveyed. Future research needs to include systematic, longitudinal investigations of illness representation and its impact on health behaviours among individuals with mild cognitive impairment.