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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.
Home of Your Own programs: models of creative collaboration
- Author:
- QUINN Peggy
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Community Practice, 12(1/2), 2004, pp.37-49.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philapelphia, USA
This description of Home of Your Own (HOYO) programs offers strategies for community collaboration that benefit people with disabilities. As more people with disabilities choose to live in the community rather than in institutions and as the population of the U.S. ages, community practitioners need to understand their needs as well as the resources available to assist them. HOYO programmes involve home buyers, financial institutions, realtors and organizations such as Centers for Independent Living, in locating properties, training clients and publicizing the programme. Practitioners and instructors can utilize HOYO programmes to illustrate the positive results of cooperation between federal, state and local agencies. (Copies of this article are available from: Haworth Document Delivery Centre, Haworth Press Inc., 10 Alice Street, Binghamton, NY 13904-1580)
Rights and wrongs?
- Author:
- GEORGE Mike
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 17.5.01, 2001, pp.36-37.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
An older couple with deteriorating physical and mental health and poor command of English provided a social worker with the tough task of co-ordinating different agencies to ensure the couple's health and well being while respecting their human rights.
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.