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Self-directed services: direct payments and personal assistance schemes
- Author:
- ELSEGOOD Sue
- Journal article citation:
- Social Action, 2(1), 1994, pp.17-19.
- Publisher:
- Whiting and Birch
Reviews the experiences of the Greenwich Association of Disabled People in setting up and running a personal assistance scheme designed to maximise disabled people's control over their own lives in the emerging new welfare arrangements.
Do public services influence patterns of informal care? Informal networks and public home care in three Swedish municipalities
- Authors:
- JOHANSSON S., HLFEDLT J.
- Journal article citation:
- Scandinavian Journal of Social Welfare, 2(2), April 1993, pp.69-79.
- Publisher:
- Munksgaard/ Blackwell
Whether an individual receives home care services depends on two factors: the functional disability of the care recipient and the caregiver's gender, when the living arrangements of the care recipient are controlled. Report the data from a longitudinal study of social networks and home care organization in three municipalities in Sweden. The results provoke a discussion on research design as well as comments on welfare policy and gender equality in the transformation of the welfare state.
Code of practice for contracts and fee negotiations and residential, domiciliary and support care services
- Author:
- VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS DISABILITY GROUP
- Publisher:
- Spastics Society
- Publication year:
- 1993
- Pagination:
- 10p.
- Place of publication:
- Huntingdon
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.
Sitting tight - taking the strain for carers
- Author:
- BARRY N.
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work Today, 31.3.88, 1988, pp.16-17.
- Publisher:
- British Association of Social Workers
Edinburgh's Sitting Service benefits carers, dependents and volunteers alike.
Families and their handicapped children: a study of coping
- Author:
- HEPPLE Sheila
- Publisher:
- Barnardo's
- Publication year:
- 1988
- Pagination:
- 112p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Ilford
Describes the competence and adaptation of families who keep their children with learning difficulties at home and bring them up successfully.
Legislation needed
- Author:
- SHAW Bill
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 9.4.87, 1987, pp.20-21.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
With the growth of private domiciliary services for elderly and disabled people, there is now the need for legislation.
Help for the disabled and their families: a domiciliary physiotherapy research project
- Authors:
- GLOSSOP E. Sonia, SMITH Dennis S
- Publisher:
- Brent and Harrow Health Authority
- Publication year:
- 1979
- Pagination:
- 27p.+ appendices, tables, illus.
- Place of publication:
- London
Neither seen nor heard: children and homecare policy in Canada
- Authors:
- PETER Elizabeth, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Social Science and Medicine, 64(8), April 2007, pp.1624-1635.
- Publisher:
- Elsevier
Changes in public policy have led to increasing numbers of children with disabilities and complex medical needs being cared for in the homes of Canadians. Little work, however, has explored the ethical implications of these policies. This paper focuses on some of the shortcomings of current policy and describes a developing method for policy analysis with an explicit focus on ethics that could be adopted in other nations. Three forms of analyses—descriptive, conceptual and normative—conducted on Canadian homecare policy documents describe various dimensions of Canadian homecare policy. The descriptive analysis demonstrated that the jurisdiction of homecare services is dispersed across numerous programs and ministries with no single structure for policy implementation and accountability. The needs of children and youth are rarely mentioned in home healthcare policies, but instead are addressed under broader social policies that are focused upon children and family. The conceptual analysis revealed four over-arching themes that represent the predominant elements of a value-structure that underlie homecare policy. They include: (1) home and community care as ideal; (2) the importance of independence and self-care of citizens; (3) family as primary care provider; and (4) citizenship as entitlement to rights and justice. Overall, these themes tend to reflect a neoliberal ideology that shifts the responsibility of care from the state to the individual and his/her family. A normative framework based on critical healthcare ethics is used in the paper to make recommendations to redress the current imbalance between state and family support. For example, including homecare services within the Canada Health Act (CHA) or the development of separate legislation consistent with the principles of the CHA would make it possible to ensure that the principles of universality, accessibility, portability and public administration, as opposed to principles that reinforce competitive individualism, direct the provision of homecare services in Canada.
Meeting the needs of disabled children
- Author:
- SLOPER Tricia
- Publisher:
- Research in Practice
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 8p.
- Place of publication:
- Dartington
This Briefing paper focuses on objective 6 of Quality Protects guidance which covers: arriving at a better picture of the numbers and circumstances of disabled children; to increase the number of children in receipt of family support services, short-term breaks and domiciliary care services; increase the number of children using play and leisure services, and to ensure parents and children have better access to information services. The Briefing summarises research evidence in each of these areas.