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Making headway
- Authors:
- GEORGE Mike, NEEDHAM Carol
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 14.6.01, May 2001, pp.32-33.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
There are few services provided for people with brain injuries with the result that too much pressure is placed on their carers. Talks to a social worker about the difficulties she had in obtaining support for her client and his carer.
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.
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.
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.
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.