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Reforming community care - a perspective from New Zealand
- Author:
- WATSON Paul
- Journal article citation:
- Local Government Studies, 20(3), Autumn 1994, pp.374-378.
- Publisher:
- Routledge
Looks at the experience of New Zealand in managing community care, in particular disability support services.
Community-based rehabilitation: a rapidly growing growing method for supporting people with disabilities
- Author:
- LIGHTFOOT Elizabeth
- Journal article citation:
- International Social Work, 47(4), October 2004, pp.455-468.
- Publisher:
- Sage
Community-based rehabilitation (CBR) is a fast-growing model of providing services to people with disabilities. This article introduces the underlying philosophy and structure of the CBR model; the strengths and weaknesses of the model; and its implications for social workers in the field of disability services throughout the world.
Letter from Sundsvall Sweden
- Author:
- LINDELOF Margareta
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 21.2.02, 2002, p.39.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
The author looks at recent changes made in community care in parts of Sweden where district nurses have taken over from home care managers trained in social work.
"Our homes, not nursing homes" project: lives of people with disabilities in nursing homes
- Authors:
- HAYASHI Reiko, ROUSCULP Tiffany
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Social Work in Disability and Rehabilitation, 3(2), 2004, pp.57-70.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
The voices of non-elderly adults with disabilities who currently-or used to-reside in nursing homes are rarely heard. A grassroots disability advocacy organization conducts participatory action research in the form of a writing workshop in collaboration with a local community-college. Participants with disabilities describe their lives and their experiences in nursing homes with the help of volunteer scribes. The information provided in their accounts will help strengthen community-organizing efforts of the disability advocacy organization. And participants have been empowered by the realization that their life stories are helping others to leave nursing homes and join community settings. (Copies of this article are available from: Haworth Document Delivery Centre, Haworth Press Inc., 10 Alice Street, Binghamton, NY 13904-1580).
Community care for people with cerebral palsy: social work perspectives
- Author:
- BRIDGE Gillian
- Journal article citation:
- Practice: Social Work in Action, 11(4), 1999, pp.15-26.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Using material derived from an empirical study in the London area of 58 parents whose children have cerebral palsy, this article examines the role and tasks of professional social workers. The subject is approached both from the perspectives of local authority social workers and those of parents. The findings that social workers feel restricted by community care responsibilities and by shortage of resources, and that parents are hostile and adversarial in their approach to them, echo the most recent reports from the Social Services Inspectorate. Argues for improving the training of social workers and for recognising that community are involves more than organisational responses.
Art for who's sake?
- Author:
- CAWS Ian
- Journal article citation:
- Professional Social Work, September 1995, pp.10-11.
- Publisher:
- British Association of Social Workers
The use of art can help develop peoples' potential where case work fails, argues that the only arts development officer connected to an English social services department. Here he spells out how art should be an intrinsic part of community care policies.
A crisis in care: challenges to social work
- Editor:
- CLARKE John
- Publisher:
- Sage/Open University
- Publication year:
- 1993
- Pagination:
- 186p.,illus.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- London
Examines the conflicting demands on, and pressures and criticisms of the social work profession. Among the issues covered are: challenges from above in the form of inquiries, reviews and new legislation; challenges from below by users, potential users and social workers themselves, about the ways in which power and control are exercised in social work; and the social and cultural diversity of needs which social work must meet, including issues of gender, ethnicity, sexuality and disability.
Providing for disabled children in the community in Ukraine after communism: a western perspective
- Author:
- BRIDGE Gillian
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work in Europe, 8(2), 2001, pp.2-9.
- Publisher:
- Russell House
This discussion paper has as its focus a Western perspective on community care provided by families for disabled children in Ukraine. This country is of interest in that it is one of the largest of the fifteen states to become independent from the Soviet Union, and to change from communism to a democratic, market economy. Additionally the number of disabled and sick children in Ukraine has increased considerably after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in 1986. Using material derived from a series of study visits, a picture emerges of courage in adversity, as parents campaign to obtain sponsorship from Western Europe in the deteriorating economic and social conditions of this transition period. Specific attention is drawn to the limited educational and rehabilitation facilities available to disabled children; independence on a medical model of disability and on out-dated, under-researched treatment approaches. However, as is common practice throughout the world, many parent-led self-help groups, some formed before 1991, are actively campaigning for changes in policy and provision so that their children may be included in society. These projects are benefiting from contact with Western ideas about social work and social welfare policy through the development of the School of Social Work at the Kyiv Mohyla Academy. Concludes that more collaboration is needed between medical, educational and social welfare perspectives to improve the lives of disabled children and their families in Ukraine.
Round pegs in round holes: a social work care management service for 'vulnerable adults' in West Oxfordshire
- Author:
- GILDERS Ian
- Journal article citation:
- Practice: Social Work in Action, 9(3), 1997, pp.45-58.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Over recent years many Social Services Departments have tended towards specialist teams and away from genericism. This article describes a pilot post of social worker
Allocation of care and services in an area-based system for long-term care of elderly and disabled people
- Author:
- LAGERGREN Marten
- Journal article citation:
- Ageing and Society, 14(3), September 1994, pp.357-381.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
In order to analyse the allocation of public care services in the city of Solna, Sweden, and how they changed in response to a rapid growth of the number of elderly people, a comparison was made between two surveys, 1985 and 1991. The analysis showed that older and non-married persons were more likely to become clients of the public care system. Institutionalisation was also more common among the non-married - especially for men. Reductions in institutionalisation had most impact on very old, non-married men. Functional disability and living arrangements were the most important variables in explaining the allocation of home help in domiciliary care and sheltered housing.