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New directions in community care: a Labour Party discussion document
- Author:
- HINCHLIFFE David
- Publisher:
- Labour Party
- Publication year:
- 1993
- Pagination:
- 7p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Document which aims to identify and encourage the development and expansion of new models of care which offer greater choice and wider opportunities for people who wish to remain in independent or semi-independent living.
Working and caring: developments at the workplace for family carers of disabled and older people
- Author:
- PHILLIPS Judith Eleri
- Publisher:
- European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions
- Publication year:
- 1996
- Pagination:
- 59p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Dublin
Report from an international conference highlighting issues around working and caring, focusing in particular on those caring for older and disabled people. Presents the policy issues from the perspectives of employers, Trade Unions, governments and public authorities; and non-governmental organisations and carers organisations. Goes on to look at why caring for adults is a workplace issue and at what is being done for working carers. Concludes with a section on what can be done to improve the employment prospects of carers.
Dependency in early life
- Author:
- MOSS Peter
- Journal article citation:
- Research Policy and Planning, 1(1), 1983, pp.8-11.
- Publisher:
- Social Services Research Group
Research has shown that dependency is not an immutable fixed quality of an individual, but can be varied in response to external factors. Dependency has undesirable consequences not only for the dependent person, but also for those whose caring role carries its own, socially derived, forms of dependency; dependency, therefore, becomes inextricably linked with the role of women in society. A more informed discussion is called for to explore the implications of setting, as a policy goal, the maximisation of the independence of dependent groups. Key practical issues in this context are mobility, income and housing. There is also the need for a radical redefinition of the work-family relationship.
We're in this together: conversations with families in caring relationships
- Authors:
- BECKER Saul, SILBURN Richard
- Publisher:
- Carers National Association
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 89p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Study looking at caring relationships and focusing on parents caring for a disabled child, husbands, wives or partners caring for the other partner, and adult sons and daughters caring for an older, frail parent. Draws directly on detailed conversations with carers and the people they care for, in order to provide a picture of what it is like to give and receive full time personal care in Britain today. Concludes with a series of policy recommendations designed to support caring relationships.
Partners in policymaking
- Author:
- NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT TEAM
- Publisher:
- National Development Team
- Publication year:
- 1996
- Pagination:
- 34p.
- Place of publication:
- Manchester
Partners in Policy Making is a leadership training programme for disabled adults and parents of disabled children up to school leaving age. Aims to invest in users of services who will have the competence and confidence to work with policy makers at national and local level. This booklet describes the course content, and how it was run with a group of people from the North West of England.
Resident outcomes of Medicaid-funded community residential care
- Authors:
- HEDRICK Susan C., et al
- Journal article citation:
- Gerontologist, 43(4), August 2003, pp.473-482.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
Washington State's initiatives to increase the availability and quality of community residential care presented an opportunity to describe clients entering adult family homes, adult residential care, and assisted living and to identify outcomes of care. We enrolled 349 residents, 243 informal caregivers, and 299 providers in 219 settings. We conducted interviews at enrollment and 12 months later, and we collected data from state databases. The average resident was a 78yearold woman reporting dependence in two of six activities of daily living. Residents in adult family homes demonstrated significantly more disability. Seventy-eight percent of residents survived at the 12-month follow-up. In analyses that controlled for differences at enrollment, residents in the three types of settings were very similar in health outcomes at follow-up. State policies should reflect the wide range of needs of residents seeking care in these settings. Choices among type of setting can be based on the match of needs to individual preferences.
Disabled people voluntary organisations and participation in policy making
- Author:
- DRAKE Robert F.
- Journal article citation:
- Policy and Politics, 30(3), July 2002, pp.373-385.
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
Traditional disability charities have enjoyed significant access to government and have asserted the legitimacy of their participation on the basis of representing a constituency comprising disabled people and carers. However, many disabled people have declared their own preference for self-representation and have rejected the interposition of the traditional disability charities between themselves and government. The purpose of the article is to document the barriers that continue to obstruct disabled people"s access to policy making.
From interface to integration: a strategy for modernising occupational therapy services in local health and social care communities; a consultation
- Author:
- COLLEGE OF OCCUPATIONAL THERAPISTS
- Publisher:
- College of Occupational Therapists
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 37p.bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Proposes an approach to service delivery which offers a seamless approach for clients and organisations. The vision is to achieve joint working of an integrated range of occupational therapy services that will bring an end to confusion and duplication for people who need to use them. The strategy focuses on the organisation of statutory service delivery. This means getting occupational therapists with the right knowledge and skills at the right place and time. The proposal is for a community based general practitioner model to ensure an integrated approach that enables services to be developed as a continuum that is responsive to the needs of service users, their carers and families.
On small shoulders: learning from the experiences of former carers
- Authors:
- FRANK Jenny, TATUM Chris, TUCKER Chris
- Publisher:
- Children's Society
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 39p.,diags.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Contains accounts by adults, who as children looked after sick or disabled relatives. Missed education, underdeveloped social skills, psychological and physical illness and restricted career opportunities were common experiences. Other issues were lack of support from agencies, and the frequent need of families to hide the true facts from public view. Concludes with recommendations on future policy and practice for service providers.
Care, communities and citizens
- Author:
- BARNES Marian
- Publisher:
- Longman
- Publication year:
- 1997
- Pagination:
- 213p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Harlow
Looks at the policy of community care for disabled people and older people in the context of transformations in health and social care systems over the last decade. Focuses on the challenges presented to providers of services by users of services and examines the growth of user movements, the self-organisation of carers, and the voices of services users. Explores potential conflicts and differences in priorities which become evident when users and carers are enabled to contribute to policy and service development. Also looks at conceptual, policy and practice developments which need to be made of community care is to be experienced as an empowering service option.