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Achievable goals
- Author:
- MORRIS Jenny
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 18.2.93, 1993, pp.22-23.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
The author in her research, looked at the experience of people with physical disabilities in the community. She found that community care practice can be restrictive and create dependency, but also discovered the benefits of genuine independence, when that is achieved.
Please ring for service
- Authors:
- THORNTON Patricia, MOUNTAIN Gail
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 11.6.92, 1992, pp.20-21.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Describes research which shows that new approaches to community alarm systems can be used as a means of helping elderly people to live independently.
Out of sight
- Author:
- INMAN Kendra
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 17.9.98, 1998, pp.20-21.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
There is growing evidence that blind and partially-sighted people are not receiving the help they need. Reports on why groups that support them are demanding change.
Targeting the resources of housing adaptations for people with disabilities
- Author:
- BREWIS Claire
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Occupational Therapy, 60(3), March 1997, pp.123-128.
- Publisher:
- Sage
Community care legislation states that resources are to be targeted to those in greatest need. In line with this, the housing adaptations budget for one local authority in the north-east of England was divided up and allocated according to need instead of, as previously, on a first come, first served basis. This study looked at the timescales involved in receiving housing adaptations and the adaptations that were being carried out under one system and compared it with the more recent system, in order to determine if people in greatest need were being targeted more effectively under the new system and how quickly this was being done. The results showed an improvement in the targeting of the adaptations but an overall increase in the time taken to deliver them.
Needs must...
- Author:
- GEORGE Mike
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 28.9.95, 1995, p.25.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Asks what constitutes good practice in care management.
Broken promises
- Author:
- GEORGE Mike
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 24.08.95, 1995, pp.16-17.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
A survey by Scope has found that care in the community has largely failed to deliver user-controlled, needs-led services.
The community dependency index: a standardised assessment of need and measure of outcome for community occupational therapy
- Authors:
- EAKIN Pamela, BAIRD Helen
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Occupational Therapy, 58(1), January 1995, pp.17-22.
- Publisher:
- Sage
Key elements of the Government's community care policy are the assessment of disabled people's needs and the measurement of the outcome of any services provided. Describes the development of a standardised assessment which could be used by community occupational therapists both to assess the level of need and to measure outcome in relation to occupational therapy.
The effect of community care on housing for disabled people: findings
- Author:
- JOSEPH ROWNTREE FOUNDATION
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 1995
- Pagination:
- 4p.
- Place of publication:
- York
Research carried out for the British Council of Organisations of Disabled People worked with researchers in five project areas to examine the effects of the 1990 National Health Service and Community Care Act on housing policy and provision for disabled people.
Home comforts: home support for disabled older people
- Author:
- BEATTIE Alistair
- Publisher:
- Age Concern
- Publication year:
- 1995
- Pagination:
- 24p.,list of orgs.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Looks at the needs of older disabled people in London, the care and support they do or do not receive, and at aids and adaptations available from the London Boroughs.
The legal relevance of resources - or a lack of resources - in community
- Author:
- SCHWEHR Belinda
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law, 17(2), 1995, pp.179-198.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
Considers the likely approach of the courts to community care litigation in which the availability of resources in an issue. It explores the way in which the forum chosen for the dispute - private or public law - might inform this approach, and examines existing case law from the general welfare law field which has largely skirted around the issue of rationing and resource allocation. Article focuses on the difference between duty and discretion, particularly in the context of the Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons Act 1970, and the potential significance of the distinction, so far as an authority's lack of resources is concerned. The writer concludes, first, that a shortage of resources is a factor which is lawful to take into account in the exercise of most welfare functions under this Act and other statutory duty in this field. Most controversially, perhaps, it is contended that s.2 of the 1970 Act does not give rise to an automatic, nor an absolute, duty to meet needs within the Act, even after a local authority has accepted that an individual for whom it is responsible has needs coming within the authority's definition of what constitutes 'need'.