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Care of a severely handicapped person over 8 years: implications for the future pattern of community care
- Authors:
- ELLIS P.F., FRANK A.O.
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of General Practice, 40(338), September 1990, pp.283-385.
- Publisher:
- Royal College of General Practitioners
Describes co-operation between home care workers, care attendants and community nurses and case management by a key worker.
Buying Independence: using direct payments to integrate health and social services
- Authors:
- GLENDINNING Caroline, et al
- Publisher:
- National Primary Care Research and Development Centre
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 58p.
- Place of publication:
- Bristol
Shows how disabled people do not make clear distinctions between 'health' and 'social' care. Through direct payments, they are able to control and integrate into their daily routines a wide range of health-related activities, such as physiotherapy and nursing tasks, in ways which offer increased independence and better quality of life, compared with conventional health services. Is extending direct payments to older people and disabled children a shift in the boundary between 'health' and 'social' services? This book explores how direct payments can improve further the integration of services from the perspectives of the users and providers involved.
Funding adaptations: the need to cooperate
- Authors:
- HEYWOOD Frances, SMART Gavin
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- Publication year:
- 1996
- Pagination:
- 201p.,tables.
- Place of publication:
- Bristol
Presents an in depth picture of how aids and adaptations for disabled people are funded in England and Wales. Brings together information from a wide range of funders. Makes recommendations for legislation, policy clarification, training, research and resources.
Going inter-professional: working together for health and welfare
- Editor:
- LEATHARD Audrey
- Publisher:
- Routledge
- Publication year:
- 1994
- Pagination:
- 268p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Brings together academics, professionals and researchers from the human services professions to assess key developments and underlying issues around inter-agency and inter-professional relations as they affect hospitals, general practice and community care. Includes chapters on: the theoretical background to inter-professional work; education and management issues; work with children, disabled people, older people and people with mental health problems; implications for carers; and developments in Australia, Western Europe and the USA.
Rehabilitation of the older person: a handbook for the interdisciplinary team
- Editors:
- SQUIRES Amanda, HASTINGS Margaret
- Publisher:
- Nelson Thornes
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 412p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Cheltenham
- Edition:
- 3rd.
Issues concerning rehabilitation of the elderly and considered from a multi-faceted team management approach. A shift in emphasis from people to person and from multidisciplinary to interdisciplinary reflects changes in the rehabilitation of older people. The book is divided into three sections dealing with the opportunity for, and theory and practice of, rehabilitation.
Social Work and direct payments
- Authors:
- GLASBY Jon, LITTLECHILD Rosemary
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 172p.
- Place of publication:
- Bristol
This book summarises and builds on current knowledge and research on direct payments in the UK and considers developments in other European countries. It identifies good practice in the area and explores the implications of direct payments for users and social workers. Through direct payments, recipients are able to control and integrate into their daily routines a wide range of health-related activities, in ways which offer increased independence and better quality of life, compared with conventional services. I
Meeting the health needs of people who have a learning disability
- Authors:
- THOMPSON Jeanette, PICKERING Sharon
- Publisher:
- Bailliere Tindall
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 347p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
The notion of addressing the poor health and promoting good health for people who have a learning disability is relatively new. Concepts such as normalisation and integration of people into the local community and providing an inclusive rather than exclusive ethos for care, have led to the policy that people with learning difficulties have the right to be treated with the same respect as every one else. This includes their right to live long and healthylives.
Interdisciplinary clinical assessment of young children with developmental disabilities
- Editor:
- GURALNICK Michael J.
- Publisher:
- Paul H. Brookes
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 486p.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- Baltimore, MD
Contains chapters on: young children with possible hearing loss; assessing language and communicative development; neurodevelopment; the nursing role within the interdisciplinary team; nutrition assessment; occupational therapy assessment; pediatric physiotherapy; psychological assessment; and the role of social work. Includes case studies on: an infant at increased risk; a child with Downs syndrome; an infant with phenylketonuria; a child with autism spectrum disorder; a child with fetal alcohol syndrome; a child with Prader-Willi syndrome; and a child with fragile X syndrome. The book concludes with a section on international perspectives, looking at Russia, Italy and Sweden.
Caring for children with specialized health care needs in the community: the challenges for primary care
- Author:
- KIRK Susan
- Journal article citation:
- Health and Social Care in the Community, 7(5), September 1999, pp.350-357.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
This article draws on research investigating how services can be developed to support families caring for children with complex health care needs, to consider the challenges facing professionals working in the primary health care sector. Primary care professionals will need to work in partnership with other sectors of the health service and with local authority services, at both strategic and operational levels, to develop integrated and coordinated services for this growing group of people.
Better care, higher standards: a charter for long-term care
- Authors:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health, GREAT BRITAIN. Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 22p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Charter for anyone in England who is eighteen or over and has difficulties associated with old age, long term illness or disability; and carers who support people in these circumstances. The Charter tells anyone who needs care or support over the long term where they can expect local housing, health and social services to set standards for the services they provide and what to do if these expectations are not met.