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Making a difference?: exploring the impact of multi-agency working on disabled children with complex health care needs, their families and the professionals who support them
- Authors:
- TOWNSLEY Ruth, ABBOTT David, WATSON Debby
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- 84p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Bristol
Almost thirty years of research has consistently shown that families with disabled children would prefer the many agencies that they encounter to work together more effectively. Since 1997, a strong policy emphasis on the importance of ‘joined-up’ working has promoted the benefits of partnerships. In response, many projects and services have been established throughout the UK that aim to implement better joint work whilst improving quality of life for this group of children and their families. There is, however, a notable lack of information about the nature of multi-agency services for children with complex health care needs. And, crucially, the impact that these partnerships have on families and children.
Assessments of activities of daily living and instrumental activities of daily living: their use by community-based health service occupational therapists working in physical disability
- Author:
- WOLF Helen
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Occupational Therapy, 60(8), August 1997, pp.359-364.
- Publisher:
- Sage
Discusses the results of a study to evaluate the appropriateness of activities of daily living (ADL) scales as outcome measures of a community-based multidisciplinary service to physically disabled young people. A literature search was undertaken which raised several questions and concerns. To find out how other teams addressed these issues, telephone interviews were conducted with occupational therapists working in similar NHS teams. They were asked about the nature of their services, their use of ADL and ADL scales and whether these were administered as outcome measures.
Multidisciplinary quality assessment: the case of a child development team, part 2
- Author:
- HOWARD Lynne M.
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Occupational Therapy, 57(10), October 1994, pp.393-397.
- Publisher:
- Sage
The second of three articles. Explains the methodology of the study. The findings of the interviews of a range of staff within the team are explored in detail using the structure-process-outcome model outlined in the first article.
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.