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Making a difference
- Author:
- GEORGE Mike
- Journal article citation:
- Care and Health Magazine, 55, 2004, pp.16-18.
- Publisher:
- Care and Health
Reports on new research from the Norah Fry Centre, 'Making a difference', which highlights the key role of multi-agency working in addressing the complex healthcare needs of disabled children. In the study a total of 115 professionals, 25 families, and 18 children or young people were interviewed.
Delivering housing adaptations
- Author:
- GEORGE Mike
- Journal article citation:
- Care and Health Magazine, 31, 12.3.03, 2003, pp.38-39.
- Publisher:
- Care and Health
Explains government guidance issued to social services department to help former patients be discharged to safe and supportive environments.
It could be you: a report on the chances of becoming a carer
- Author:
- GEORGE Mike
- Publisher:
- Carers UK
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 14p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Carers look after family, friends or partners in help because they are ill, frail or have a disability. The care they provide is unpaid. In any year 301,000 adults in the UK become carers. Three out of five carers have had to give up work to care. Almost all of us have been or will be a carer during our lifetime.
Sensory wellbeing
- Author:
- GEORGE Mike
- Journal article citation:
- Care and Health Magazine, 24, November 2002, pp.38-39.
- Publisher:
- Care and Health
Provides key information and statistics on sensory impairments.
Access all areas
- Author:
- GEORGE Mike
- Journal article citation:
- Care and Health Guide, 9, December 2001, pp.22-23.
- Publisher:
- Care and Health
Looks at the key legislative and policy changes for people with disabilities over the last few years.
Rights and wrongs?
- Author:
- GEORGE Mike
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 17.5.01, 2001, pp.36-37.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
An older couple with deteriorating physical and mental health and poor command of English provided a social worker with the tough task of co-ordinating different agencies to ensure the couple's health and well being while respecting their human rights.
A precarious package
- Author:
- GEORGE Mike
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 5.4.01, 2001, pp.30-31.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Meeting the care needs of disabled people in their homes entails more risk than providing for them in a specialist unit. Talks to one social worker about a client whose wife wanted him to stay home but who required an intensive care package that proved very difficult to organise.
Services to change
- Author:
- GEORGE Mike
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 24.6.99, 1999, p.26.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Looks at how agencies and councils are trying to improve care for ethnic minority families with disabled children by developing culturally appropriate services.
Opportunity or exploitation?
- Author:
- GEORGE Mike
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 11.3.99, 1999, p.27.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Investigates the function of social firms in offering secure employment for people who are disadvantaged in the open labour market.
Welfare rights: claimants' hospital stays may lead to benefit cuts
- Author:
- GEORGE Mike
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 2.7.98, 1998, p.27.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Many disabled people living in the community require regular short stays in hospital, otherwise they would have to live in residential care. However, a recent change in law is putting their social security benefits at risk.