Disability organisations are worried that the point-scoring system for new incapacity benefit will mean thousands of claimants will not qualify for the benefit. The reason for this concern is because the test used in assessing incapacity only addresses people's inability to perform daily living activities, thus measuring disability rather than incapacity for work. Reports on proposed changes.
Disability organisations are worried that the point-scoring system for new incapacity benefit will mean thousands of claimants will not qualify for the benefit. The reason for this concern is because the test used in assessing incapacity only addresses people's inability to perform daily living activities, thus measuring disability rather than incapacity for work. Reports on proposed changes.
Direct payment schemes can make a positive contribution to care, but what happens when the service user disagrees with the practitioner about how funds should be used? The author talks to a social workers about a case in which the user and her husband had strong views about the type of care they wanted.
Direct payment schemes can make a positive contribution to care, but what happens when the service user disagrees with the practitioner about how funds should be used? The author talks to a social workers about a case in which the user and her husband had strong views about the type of care they wanted.
Subject terms:
physical disabilities, risk, social work methods, social workers, assessment, decision making, direct payments;
Asks what happens when a client's behaviour means home care agencies will not work with him. A social workers explains to the author how she was faced with the problem of whether to admit a man with multiple sclerosis and severe depression to a specialist home, and so compromise his valued independence.
Asks what happens when a client's behaviour means home care agencies will not work with him. A social workers explains to the author how she was faced with the problem of whether to admit a man with multiple sclerosis and severe depression to a specialist home, and so compromise his valued independence.
Subject terms:
physical disabilities, rights, risk, social workers, assessment, decision making, ethics;
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.
Explains government guidance issued to social services department to help former patients be discharged to safe and supportive environments.
Subject terms:
home adaptations, hospital discharge, housing, central government, older people, assessment, assistive technology, community care, grants, physical disabilities;
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.
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.
Subject terms:
home care, physical disabilities, risk, assessment, carers, care management, care planning, community care;
The Association for Spina Bifida and Hydrocephalus has started up its own needs assessment group, Start, because it feels that social services are failing this client group.
The Association for Spina Bifida and Hydrocephalus has started up its own needs assessment group, Start, because it feels that social services are failing this client group.
Subject terms:
needs, needs assessment, physical disabilities, social services, social care provision, surveys, user views, voluntary organisations, assessment;
How a social worker approached a case involving a mother with parenting problems and her twin teenage daughters, one of whom is profoundly disabled while the other exhibits very challenging behaviour.
How a social worker approached a case involving a mother with parenting problems and her twin teenage daughters, one of whom is profoundly disabled while the other exhibits very challenging behaviour.
Subject terms:
mothers, physical disabilities, professional registration, residential care, risk, social workers, vulnerable children, assessment, challenging behaviour, child neglect, child protection, children, families;