Bibliography on long-term care in the United States, looking at a wide range of users. Includes sections on: past and future of long term care; institutional care; community services (including hospices and rural issues); administrative issues (including nursing, staffing, quality assurance, environmental design, patients' rights, management, and funding); non-institutional care; housing; the costs of long term care; black and minority ethnic groups; ethics; public policy issues; and demographics.
Bibliography on long-term care in the United States, looking at a wide range of users. Includes sections on: past and future of long term care; institutional care; community services (including hospices and rural issues); administrative issues (including nursing, staffing, quality assurance, environmental design, patients' rights, management, and funding); non-institutional care; housing; the costs of long term care; black and minority ethnic groups; ethics; public policy issues; and demographics.
Subject terms:
housing, long term care, older people, physical disabilities, residential care, social policy, social care provision, black and minority ethnic people, care homes, community care, demographics, ethics;
Based on interviews with carers coping with at home with elderly relatives, AIDS sufferers, disabled spouses, analyses the emotional conflicts of love and attachment, resentment and guilt that they all feel. Lack of support is highlighted.
Based on interviews with carers coping with at home with elderly relatives, AIDS sufferers, disabled spouses, analyses the emotional conflicts of love and attachment, resentment and guilt that they all feel. Lack of support is highlighted.
Subject terms:
home care, hospitals, older people, parents, partners, physical disabilities, residential care, social welfare law, carers, black and minority ethnic people, community care, children, families;
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.
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.
Subject terms:
men, midwives, models, older people, physical disabilities, physical illness, pregnancy, residential care, women, anti-racist practice, carers, black and minority ethnic people, childbirth, children, deafness, domestic violence, empowerment, feminist theory, groupwork, health care;
mass media, older people, physical disabilities, residential care, sexuality, addiction, alcohol misuse, bereavement, black and minority ethnic people, cancer, child abuse, community care, counselling, death, dementia, divorce, drug misuse, families;
Describes child welfare systems in all the EC member states and provides a guide to the institutions and legislative processes within the European Union as they affect children. Also includes detailed information on: family trends; family policy; caring for children; poverty and social exclusion; education; health; homelessness; youth justice; residential and foster care; adoption; disability; violence to children; migrants, refugees and race; child labour; and civil rights.
Describes child welfare systems in all the EC member states and provides a guide to the institutions and legislative processes within the European Union as they affect children. Also includes detailed information on: family trends; family policy; caring for children; poverty and social exclusion; education; health; homelessness; youth justice; residential and foster care; adoption; disability; violence to children; migrants, refugees and race; child labour; and civil rights.
Subject terms:
homeless people, homelessness, law, physical disabilities, poverty, refugees, residential care, rights, social exclusion, social policy, social care provision, violence, youth justice, adopted children, black and minority ethnic people, child care, children, childrens rights, education, families, employment, European Union, foster care, health;
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Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Greece, Europe, Finland, France, Ireland, Italy, Germany, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Portugal, Sweden, Spain, United Kingdom
hospital social work, medical social work, medical social workers, looked after children, mental health problems, mental health services, multidisciplinary services, offenders, older people, physical disabilities, private foster care, residential care, residential child care, registers, social work, social work education, social worker-service user relationships, terminal illness, user participation, transracial adoption, transracial foster care, visual impairment, youth justice, anti-discriminatory practice, black and minority ethnic people, case records, care homes, child protection, community care, children, employment, equal opportunities;
homosexuality, learning disabilities, mental health problems, physical disabilities, probation, poverty, psychotherapy, rape, research methods, residential care, schizophrenia, severe mental health problems, single parent families, suicide, unemployment, violence, women, young offenders, youth work, adoption, alcohol misuse, bereavement, black and minority ethnic people, child abuse, child sexual abuse, custodial institutions, counselling, divorce, drug misuse, foster care, groupwork;