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A significant life event
- Author:
- OLIVER M.
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work Today, 9.3.89, 1989, pp.22-23.
- Publisher:
- British Association of Social Workers
Argues that advances in the medical treatment of spinal cord injuries have not been matched by advances in the support services.
Home and dry
- Author:
- MAITLAND Nan
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 11.2.93, 1993, p.24.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
The author, co-winner of last year's Isabel Schwartz Travel Fellowship, is pioneering homesharing for disabled people in the UK. The concept of homesharing which is well-established in America and Canada involves the house-holder providing accommodation in exchange for help and someone in the house at night. Describes the author's visits to the American National Shared Housing Resource Centre (NSHRC) and the Share and Care project in Canada where she studied their techniques and looks at the homesharing that has been achieved in the UK so far.
The right to make choices
- Author:
- MACFARLANE Ann
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 1.11.90, 1990, pp.14-15.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Looks at an embryonic system in Kingston upon Thames in which personal assistants provide support and assistance to disabled people in their own homes.
The Greenwich community care attendant scheme: an evaluation
- Author:
- CROSSTHWAITE Alan
- Publisher:
- Greenwich. Social Services Department
- Publication year:
- 1989
- Pagination:
- 165p., diags., maps, bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
The Greenwich scheme provides a long-term, intensive domiciliary support service to people with severe physical disabilities. Reports on an evaluation which highlighted satisfaction with the scheme and recommendations.
Cambridge blues
- Author:
- OWENS P.
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 11.2.88, 1988, pp.20-22.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Describes a community project providing domiciliary care for severely disabled and chronically ill young people.
A more responsive approach
- Author:
- SNAITH R.
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 18.6.87, 1987, pp.16-17.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Describes a home care scheme for younger severely disabled people.
The capacity to care: a family focused approach to social work practice with the disabled elderly
- Author:
- MOORE S.T.
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Gerontological Social Work, 10(1/2), 1987, pp.79-97.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
Discusses the family care-giving process and the relevance of family theory to social work practice.
When care is withdrawn
- Author:
- -
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 29.09.05, 2005, pp.40-41.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
A panel of experts comment onthe case of a severely disabled man who after losing his wife rejects a new care regime offered by social services.
A study of 10 states since passage of the National Family Caregiver Support Program: policies, perceptions, and program development
- Authors:
- FEINBERG Lynn Friss, NEWMAN Sandra L.
- Journal article citation:
- Gerontologist, 44(6), December 2004, pp.760-769.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
Describes the preliminary experiences of 10 US states in providing support services to family or informal caregivers of elderly adults and adults with disabilities, focusing on the newly created National Family Caregiver Support Program, state general funds, Medicaid-waiver programs, and other state-funding streams. Case studies were conducted in March-July 2002 through in-person interviews with state officials and stakeholders in Alabama, California, Florida, Hawaii, Indiana, Iowa, Maine, Pennsylvania, Texas and Washington. States were in the start-up phase of implementing the Program and varied greatly in programme design and integration of caregiver support into their home- and community-based care system. Viewing family caregivers as a client population was a paradigm shift for many state officials. Heavy reliance is currently placed on family and informal caregivers in home- and community-based care, without adequate support services. Family support should be an explicit goal of long-term-care system reform.
Drinking to poor health
- Author:
- -
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 11.4.02, 2002, pp.44-45.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Considers a case where a disabled person demands that his carers assist him in his heavy drinking.