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My mum, my dad, my daughter and the NHS
- Author:
- ALLAN Isobel
- Journal article citation:
- Health Service Journal, 14.6.01, 2001, pp.26-27.
- Publisher:
- Emap Healthcare
Caring for her mother, father and severely disabled daughter has left the author in no doubt about what she requires from the NHS.
Carers' experiences of hospital discharge and continuing care in the community
- Authors:
- HEATON Janet, ARKSEY Hilary, SLOPER Patricia
- Journal article citation:
- Health and Social Care in the Community, 7(2), March 1999, pp.91-99.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
This article presents the findings of a study of carers' perspectives on discharge procedures and continuing care arrangements for adults aged 18-65 with physical and complex disabilities. Interviews were conducted with carers of people discharged from younger disabled units (YDUs) and hospital settings. The emphasis carers place on the need to be informed and involved in the discharge planning process is described, and the adequacy of continuing care arrangements from carers' perspectives is examined. The findings of the study raise issues for policy and practice about carers' needs, vis-a-vis patients, to be included as active participants in the discharge planning process.
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.
Living with brain injury: a guide for families and caregivers
- Editors:
- ACORN Sonia, OFFER Penny
- Publisher:
- University of Toronto Press
- Publication year:
- 1998
- Pagination:
- 190p.
- Place of publication:
- Toronto
Practical text aimed at people with brain injury and their friends, families and carers. Includes chapters on: what brain injury is; a survivor's view; the rehabilitation team; hospital and after; case management; long term adjustment following significant brain injury; psychosocial effects; children and young people with brain injuries; couple issues; brain injury and the family system; leisure and recreation; and the family as caregiver.
The patchwork quilt
- Author:
- LINDSAY Meg
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 26.5.94, 1994, p.20.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Respite care is often made from bits and pieces from services which are meant to be integrated, but not at the top of many agendas. This means that respite care uses borrowed funding and secondhand policies and practices. A survey in Scotland examined four types of respite care: hospital, residential, family-based, and domiciliary for seven main groups: older people, people with dementia, those with mental health problems, and children and adults with learning and physical disabilities, to find out the reality for carers. Also explores the possibilities for improving services for them.
Who cares: looking after people at home
- Author:
- HICKS Cherrill
- Publisher:
- Virgo Press
- Publication year:
- 1988
- Pagination:
- 271p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Based on interviews with carers coping with at home with elderly relatives, AIDS sufferers, disabled spouses, analyses the emotional conflicts of love and attachment, resentment and guilt that they all feel. Lack of support is highlighted.