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Making choice a reality
- Author:
- BRANDON David
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 28.6.90, 1990, p.vi.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Reports on CHOICE - a disabled person's organisation in North London which is effectively putting case management into practice.
Inspection of assessment and care management arrangements in social services departments
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health. Social Services Inspectorate
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health. Social Services Inspectorate
- Publication year:
- 1994
- Pagination:
- 2p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Letter accompanying a report on the progress of assessment arrangements and outlining issues that still need to be addressed.
Getting users' plans to take off
- Authors:
- BRANDON Althea, BRANDON David
- Journal article citation:
- Care Weekly, 14.10.93, 1993, pp.12-13.
Care planning is a vital issue in community care. Individual care plans will only work if care managers react in a flexible way to the needs of disabled people.
Helping disabled people - the user's view
- Author:
- SWAIN Peter
- Journal article citation:
- British Medical Journal, 10.4.93, 1993, pp.990-992.
- Publisher:
- British Medical Association
Describes the Living Options East Devon project, which aims to ensure that disabled people have a voice in helping to shape the services they need.
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.
A model of good planning
- Author:
- ROBERTSON Alex
- Journal article citation:
- Care Plan, 1(3), March 1995, pp.30-32.
- Publisher:
- Positive Publications/ Anglia Polytechnic University, Faculty of Health and Social Work
Describes how a group of disabled people and professionals learned to work and plan together.
Care planning: the 'magnets' that draw us together
- Authors:
- BRANDON Althea, BRANDON David
- Journal article citation:
- Care Plan, 1(3), March 1995, pp.20-21.
- Publisher:
- Positive Publications/ Anglia Polytechnic University, Faculty of Health and Social Work
Care planning should be a profound and genuine attempt to individualise services for people with disabilities. It should mean a transfer of power from professionals to services users. Describes what it should involve.
Inspection of assessment and care management arrangements in social services departments: October 1993 - March 1994; second overview report
- Authors:
- BOOTH L.J., TOMLINSON D
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health. Social Services Inspectorate. London West I
- Publication year:
- 1994
- Pagination:
- 50p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Inspection report focusing on the arrangements for assessment and care management for older people and disabled people in 5 SSD's. Wherever possible, user and carer assessors worked with the SSI inspectors for all or part of the inspections.
Unlocking the future: developing new lifestyles with people who have complex disabilities
- Editors:
- McINTOSH Barbara, WHITTAKER Andrea
- Publisher:
- King's Fund Centre
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 212p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Explores ways in which services need to change to provide people with learning difficulties and very high support needs with lifestyles based on their own wishes and needs. Provides practical guidance for providing person centred services that will result in a better quality of life for users. Includes chapters on:planning; communication; health care in the community; education; transition to adulthood; supported employment; leisure; day care; managing changes in lifestyle; measuring progress; and care management and planning circles.
Keeping consumers at the centre of planning
- Authors:
- BRANDON David, HAWKES Annie
- Journal article citation:
- Care Plan, 6(1), September 1999, pp.8-14.
- Publisher:
- Positive Publications/ Anglia Polytechnic University, Faculty of Health and Social Work
The authors suggest that assessment and care planning needs a system which can be understood by services users as well as by professionals. They show how the 'four magnets' - control, skills, pain and contact - can be unifying and holistic.