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The mistreatment of older people: widening the horizon
- Author:
- GARROD Glen
- Journal article citation:
- Generations Review, 3(4), December 1993, pp.9-12.
- Publisher:
- British Society of Gerontology
Describes a pilot recording project initiated within County Durham in 1992 which sought to collect detail about cases of mistreatment encountered by a wide range of social care agencies throughout the county.
First class citizens
- Author:
- HOBMAN David
- Journal article citation:
- Care Weekly, 16.11.93, 1993, p.16.
The quality and range of services available to older people still reflects chance as much as genuine choice. Older people need a more broadly based political voice than the current pensioner lobby. Wherever they turn for assessment, treatment and support they should be viewed as valuable consumers.
Bridges to the real world
- Author:
- SMITH Ailsa
- Journal article citation:
- Care Weekly, 11.11.93, 1993, p.13.
The author describes how her personal and professional skills were stretched when her father developed dementia.
Community care assessments: language and older people - hearing is not always understanding
- Author:
- BARRETT David
- Journal article citation:
- Elders the Journal of Care and Practice, 2(3), August 1993, pp.5-10.
Considers whether those undertaking assessments of older people perceive what is being said to them, and whether they interpret the meanings correctly.
What next?
- Author:
- -
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 22.7.93, 1993, pp.22-23.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
In the penultimate week of 'Community Care' journal's campaigning series of features on elder abuse experts are asked for their views on what the future holds.
Now read on...
- Author:
- FRANCIS Joy
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 22.7.93, 1993, pp.20-21.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Lists a selection of articles, books, reports and forthcoming publications on the subject of elder abuse.
Research
- Author:
- BOOTH Tim
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 11.3.93, 1993, p.26.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Looks at research into elderly people leaving home, with the aim of gaining understanding of how they feel about entering residential care.
Carers talking: interviews with family carers of older, dependent people in the European Community
- Editors:
- MESTHENEOS Elizabeth, TRIANTAFILLOU Judith
- Publisher:
- European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions
- Publication year:
- 1993
- Pagination:
- 115p.
- Place of publication:
- Dublin
A collection of personal accounts from carers of older people, designed to illustrate and examine the experience of becoming and being a family carer and how the nature and costs of caring change over time.
No time to lose: first impressions of the community care reforms
- Author:
- AGE CONCERN ENGLAND
- Publisher:
- Age Concern
- Publication year:
- 1993
- Pagination:
- 28p.
- Place of publication:
- London
A critical assessment of the effectiveness of community care for older people so far. Makes recommendations for improvements in the future.
London housing survey 1992: older people
- Author:
- LONDON RESEARCH CENTRE. Housing and Social Research Department
- Publisher:
- London Research Centre
- Publication year:
- 1993
- Pagination:
- 12p.,tables.
- Place of publication:
- London
Details key findings from the survey as they relate to older people.