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The right remit
- Authors:
- BEWLEY Catherine, GLENDINNING Caroline
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 7.4.94, 1994, pp.26-27.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
For community care plans to be drawn up it is essential that users are consulted. Although disabled people are being involved in plans, the authors' research raises questions about how representatives of disabled people are chosen and highlights the negative effects of asking people questions which are inappropriate to their situation. Newer organisations of disabled people, advocacy groups and black and ethnic minority community groups are less likely to belong to more established networks and therefore will miss out on consultation.
Representing the views of disabled people in community care planning
- Authors:
- BEWLEY Catherine, GLENDINNING Caroline
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 9(3), 1994, pp.301-314.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
This paper gives a critical account of the different ways in which the views of disabled people are sought and represented in community care planning; and of the organisational and practical barriers which disabled people and their organisations are likely to encounter in representing their views to service planners.
Under strain? Exploring the troubled relationship between health and social care
- Authors:
- GLENDINNING Caroline, HUDSON Bob, MEANS Robin
- Journal article citation:
- Public Money and Management, 25(4), August 2005, pp.245-251.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
Relationships between the NHS and social care services over the past 25 years have a poor history. This article examines the strategies that have been used by central government and by local NHS and social care organizations to overcome difficulties of service co-ordination in relation to services for older people and disabled adults. The article is written from the perspective of the NHS. The authors conclude that policies reflecting 'networked' modes of governance may stand the best chance of success, although evidence of improved impact and outcomes still remains scarce.
Dependence, independence or inter-dependence? Revisiting the concepts of 'care' and 'dependency'
- Authors:
- FINE Michael, GLENDINNING Caroline
- Journal article citation:
- Ageing and Society, 25(4), July 2005, pp.601-621.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
Research and theory on ‘dependency’ and ‘care-giving’ have to date proceeded along largely separate lines, with little sense that they are exploring and explaining different aspects of the same phenomenon. Research on ‘care’, initially linked to feminism during the early 1980s, has revealed and exposed to public gaze what was hitherto assumed to be a ‘natural’ female activity. Conversely, disability activists and writers who have promoted a social model of disability have seen the language of and the policy focus upon ‘care’ as oppressive and objectifying. ‘Dependency’ is an equally contested concept: sociologists have scrutinised the social construction of dependency; politicians have ascribed negative connotations of passivity; while medical and social policy discourse employs the term in a positivist sense as a measure of physical need for professional intervention. Autonomy and independence, in contrast, are promoted as universal and largely unproblematic goals. These contrasting perspectives have led social theory, research and policies to separate and segregate the worlds of ‘carers’ from those for whom they ‘care’. Drawing on the work of Kittay and others, this paper explores the ways in which sociological perspectives can develop new understanding of the social contexts of ‘care’ and ‘dependence’.
New kinds of care new kinds of relationships: how purchasing services affects relationships in giving and receiving personal assistance
- Authors:
- GLENDINNING Caroline, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Health and Social Care in the Community, 8(3), May 2000, pp.201-211.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Draws on interviews with users of direct payments and focus group discussions with the personal assistants (PAs) who assist them with personal and daily living activities. It discusses the benefits and the drawbacks of directly employing such assistance, from the perspectives of both the purchasers and the providers of these services. The article shows that direct payments can enable disabled people to purchase a much wider range of flexible help, better continuity, greater control and an enhanced quality of life, compared with conventional services.
The planners' well-meaning efforts that bring disillusionment
- Authors:
- BEWLEY Catherine, GLENDINNING Caroline
- Journal article citation:
- Care Plan, 3(3), March 1997, pp.12-14.
- Publisher:
- Positive Publications/ Anglia Polytechnic University, Faculty of Health and Social Work
Research on service user involvement in community care planning and service provision shows some advances but still many fundamental problems and misconceptions about the process. Provides selected findings of some of the research and highlights key points on empowerment.
Negotiating needs, access and gatekeeping: developments in health and community care policies in the UK and the rights of disabled and older citizens
- Authors:
- RUMMERY Kirstein, GLENDINNING Caroline
- Journal article citation:
- Critical Social Policy, 19(3), August 1999, pp.335-351.
- Publisher:
- Sage
This article argues that the cumulative consequences of community care policies in the UK have resulted in a move from universal access to NHS services to discretionary access to residual local authority services. Draws on an empirical study of the experiences of disabled and older people who have tried to gain access to community care assessments.