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Essential lifestyle planning: a handbook for facilitators
- Authors:
- SMULL Michael, SANDERSON Helen, ALLEN Bill
- Publisher:
- North West Training and Development Team
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 342p.
- Place of publication:
- Manchester
Essential lifestyle planning is a guided process for learning how someone wants to live and for developing a plan to help make it happen. It’s also: a snapshot of how someone wants to live today, serving as a blueprint for how to support someone tomorrow; a way of organizing and communicating what is important to an individual in “user friendly”, plain language; a flexible process that can be used in combination with other person centered planning techniques; and, a way of making sure that the person is heard, regardless of the severity of his or her disability. Developing plans that really reflect how people want to live require: the perspectives of those who know and care about the person; their stories about good days and bad; and, what they like and admire about the person.
Grandparent carers II: service needs and service provision issues
- Authors:
- MCCALLION Philip, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Gerontological Social Work, 33(3), 2000, pp.57-84.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
A demonstration project was undertaken in two of new York City's five boroughs using an intervention model to assess how a three-prong approach using outreach, provision of support groups, and case management could be used to aid grandparents acting as primary carers for children with developmental delay or disabilities. Several common themes were identified that warrant attention when working with older adults who assume later-age parenting roles: recruitment, pressing grandparents problems, unresponsive service systems, falling between the cracks, mutual support, and need for long-term planning.