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Health and function in the third age: papers prepared for the Carnegie Inquiry into the Third Age
- Authors:
- EVANS J. Grimley, et al
- Publisher:
- Nuffield Provincial Hospitals Trust
- Publication year:
- 1993
- Pagination:
- 206p.,tables,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- London
Contains papers on: human ageing and the differences between young and old; active life expectancy and disability; Ischaemic heart disease; chronic bronchitis; osteoarthritis; osteoporosis; stroke; cancers; depression; dementia; incontinence; risk factors; physical fitness; visual and hearing abilities; and psychological function and ageing.
My mum needs me: helping children with ill or disabled parents
- Authors:
- SEGAL Julia, SIMKINS John
- Publisher:
- Penguin
- Publication year:
- 1993
- Pagination:
- 253p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Looks at the effects on children of having a parent who is ill or disabled and at ways of offering help. Includes a chapter on the death of a parent.
Health, welfare and practice: reflecting on roles and relationships
- Editors:
- WALMSLEY Jan, et al
- Publisher:
- Sage/Open University
- Publication year:
- 1993
- Pagination:
- 214p.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- London
Broad ranging text exploring key issues in the provision and use of caring services. Focuses on the roles and relationships between health and social welfare services. Includes chapters on: caring roles and caring relationships; the health service/social work divide; midwives and doctors on the labour ward; pregnancy and childbirth - a historical perspective; how the poor die (by George Orwell); feminist theory and strategy in social work; anti-racist curriculums in social work training; women clients and women social workers; violence against black women; men - the forgotten carers; older women; acquired hearing loss; new disability services; empowerment and oppression; an account of living on a children's ward; personal and medical memories from Hillsborough; group care; and establishing a feminist model of groupwork in the probation service.