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The legal relevance of resources - or a lack of resources - in community
- Author:
- SCHWEHR Belinda
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law, 17(2), 1995, pp.179-198.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
Considers the likely approach of the courts to community care litigation in which the availability of resources in an issue. It explores the way in which the forum chosen for the dispute - private or public law - might inform this approach, and examines existing case law from the general welfare law field which has largely skirted around the issue of rationing and resource allocation. Article focuses on the difference between duty and discretion, particularly in the context of the Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons Act 1970, and the potential significance of the distinction, so far as an authority's lack of resources is concerned. The writer concludes, first, that a shortage of resources is a factor which is lawful to take into account in the exercise of most welfare functions under this Act and other statutory duty in this field. Most controversially, perhaps, it is contended that s.2 of the 1970 Act does not give rise to an automatic, nor an absolute, duty to meet needs within the Act, even after a local authority has accepted that an individual for whom it is responsible has needs coming within the authority's definition of what constitutes 'need'.
Factors associated with frailty in chronically ill older adults
- Author:
- HACKSTAFF Lynn
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work in Health Care, 48(8), November 2009, pp.798-811.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
An ex post facto analysis of a secondary dataset examined relationships between physical frailty, depression and the self-perceived domains of health status and quality-of-life in older adults. The randomised sample included 992 community-dwelling, chronically ill and functionally impaired adults age 65 and older who received care from a Southern California Kaiser Permanente medical centre between 1998 and 2002. The purpose of the study was to identify possible intervention junctures related to self-efficacy of older adults in order to help optimise their functionality. Multivariate correlation analyses showed statistically significant positive correlations between frailty level and depression (r = .18; p = < .05), number of medical conditions (r = .09; p = < .05), and self-rated quality-of-life (r = .24; p = < .05). Frailty level showed a statistically significant negative correlation with self-perceived health status (r = -.25; p = < .05). Notably, no statistically significant correlation was found between age and frailty level (r = -.03; p = < .05). In linear regression, self-perceived health status had a partial variance with frailty level (part r = -.18). The significant correlations found support further research to identify interventions to help vulnerable, older adults challenge self-perceived capabilities so that they may achieve optimum functionality through increased physical activity earlier on, and increased self-efficacy to support successful adaptation to ageing-related losses.
Developing an interactive approach in social work research: the example of a research study on head injury
- Author:
- HIGHAM P.E.
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Social Work, 31(2), April 2001, pp.197-212.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
The paper examines the processes of a research project about the continuing care needs of head-injured people in order to illustrate an interactive approach in social work research. Influenced by the social work values of empowerment and working in partnership, the key function of the interactive approach include a multidisciplinary research team analysing the research topic through different disciplinary perspectives, and selecting research methods and dissemination strategies that promote interactive relationships amongst researchers, respondents and sponsors. Social work practice supplies transferable knowledge, values and skills for the interactive approach. The skill of negotiation is used to mitigate unequal distributions of power between researchers and respondents. The paper concludes that the interactive approach is a distinctive characteristic of social work research that deserves wider recognition.
Ethnicity, disability and chronic illness
- Editor:
- AHMAD Waqar I. U.
- Publisher:
- Open University Press
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 154p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Buckingham
Brings together work on ethnicity, disability, chronic illness and caring. Examines the conceptualisation of disability or chronic illness and the implications of particular definitions; looks at everyday living with a disability or chronic ill health; and examines the role of services in providing support to disabled people and carers. Highlights the continued problems experienced by minority ethnic disabled and chronically ill people and their families.
Grass roots promotion of community health and human rights for people with disabilities in post-communist Central Europe: a profile of the Slovak Republic
- Author:
- HOLLAND Daniel
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 18(2), March 2003, pp.133-143.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Individuals living with a disability or chronic illness in post-communist Central and Eastern Europe face significant challenges to quality of life. The government-supported health care infrastructures in the post-communist countries of Central and Eastern Europe remain highly centralised and institutional, which poses particular obstacles to people with disabilities who wish to live independently in their communities. A partial solution to this difficulty has been the development of innovative grass roots organisations that provide community-based support to individuals with disabilities or chronic illness. These disability organisations provide services and advocacy that allow individuals to receive needed support outside of the biomedical institutions, facilitating independent living in the community. They do so, however, in a political and economic environment of immense change, and one with varying degrees of support for non-governmental organisations and a Civil Society. The following article profiles this grass roots development in one particularly interesting post-communist Central European country, the Slovak Republic.
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.
More than just a health issue: a review of current issues in the care of enterally-fed children living in the community
- Authors:
- TOWNSLEY Ruth, ROBINSON Carol
- Journal article citation:
- Health and Social Care in the Community, 7(3), April 1999, pp.216-224.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
This article reviews the literature on support for children who are tube fed and makes a case for more co-ordinated and effective support services for families who are tube feeding a child at home. It is argued that national guidance should be developed which clarifies the position of all non-parent carers and staff who are willing to administer enteral tube feeds. Such guidance should also ensure that enterally-fed children have the same rights to educational and social services as other children and that families are given the opportunity to make informed decisions about the implications of enteral feeding prior to it being established.
Working on the boundaries of community care
- Author:
- ROBINSON Janice
- Journal article citation:
- King's Fund News, 21(3), Autumn 1998, p.2.
- Publisher:
- King's Fund
People with chronic illness and long-term disability need integrated care and support to enable them to live an independent life in the community. The author highlights a programme they are working on.
Community care law update
- Author:
- COLLINS Simon
- Journal article citation:
- SCOLAG Journal, 233, April 1996, pp.59-62.
- Publisher:
- ScoLAG(Scottish Legal Action Group)
Community care is a new and rapidly expanding area of law. The author, examines some important recent developments by using recent case examples covering the assessment of need; assessment of special educational needs; closure of local authority residential homes; homelessness and community care; and contracting out care services.