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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.
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.
Children and young people requiring home assisted ventilation in the South of England: incidence, receipt of care support and components of the care package
- Authors:
- WHILE Alison E., COCKETT Andrea M., LEWIS Samantha
- Journal article citation:
- Children and Society, 18(3), June 2004, pp.207-217.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
The study found an increasing number of ventilator dependent children and young people living at home. Almost three quarters of the sample had a physical disability as a result of or in addition to their primary diagnosis. There was wide variation in the amount of paid care supporting these families which appeared unrelated to the level of ventilatory dependence. Nurses working in community children's teams or hospital outreach teams were the most frequent care organisers and care managers. The majority of the care packages were funded by Health Authorities.
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.
Direct payments direct control: enabling older people to manage their own care
- Author:
- HELP THE AGED
- Publisher:
- Help the Aged
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 10p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Summary of the seminar on direct payments organised by Help the Aged. The organisation is concerned that many authorities do not run direct payment schemes, while others have schemes for disabled young people but have not extended them to older people. From April 2002 authorities will have the obligation to provide these services.
Supporting rural communities
- Author:
- -
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work Today, 22.2.90, 1990, pp.28-29.
- Publisher:
- British Association of Social Workers
Summarises a range of services provided by shire counties to their rural areas.