There are few services provided for people with brain injuries with the result that too much pressure is placed on their carers. Talks to a social worker about the difficulties she had in obtaining support for her client and his carer.
There are few services provided for people with brain injuries with the result that too much pressure is placed on their carers. Talks to a social worker about the difficulties she had in obtaining support for her client and his carer.
Subject terms:
physical disabilities, risk, carers, head injuries;
Direct payment schemes can make a positive contribution to care, but what happens when the service user disagrees with the practitioner about how funds should be used? The author talks to a social workers about a case in which the user and her husband had strong views about the type of care they wanted.
Direct payment schemes can make a positive contribution to care, but what happens when the service user disagrees with the practitioner about how funds should be used? The author talks to a social workers about a case in which the user and her husband had strong views about the type of care they wanted.
Subject terms:
physical disabilities, risk, social work methods, social workers, assessment, decision making, direct payments;
Asks what happens when a client's behaviour means home care agencies will not work with him. A social workers explains to the author how she was faced with the problem of whether to admit a man with multiple sclerosis and severe depression to a specialist home, and so compromise his valued independence.
Asks what happens when a client's behaviour means home care agencies will not work with him. A social workers explains to the author how she was faced with the problem of whether to admit a man with multiple sclerosis and severe depression to a specialist home, and so compromise his valued independence.
Subject terms:
physical disabilities, rights, risk, social workers, assessment, decision making, ethics;
An older couple with deteriorating physical and mental health and poor command of English provided a social worker with the tough task of co-ordinating different agencies to ensure the couple's health and well being while respecting their human rights.
An older couple with deteriorating physical and mental health and poor command of English provided a social worker with the tough task of co-ordinating different agencies to ensure the couple's health and well being while respecting their human rights.
Subject terms:
home care, home help, human rights, interagency cooperation, older people, physical disabilities, hospital discharge, risk, dementia;
Meeting the care needs of disabled people in their homes entails more risk than providing for them in a specialist unit. Talks to one social worker about a client whose wife wanted him to stay home but who required an intensive care package that proved very difficult to organise.
Meeting the care needs of disabled people in their homes entails more risk than providing for them in a specialist unit. Talks to one social worker about a client whose wife wanted him to stay home but who required an intensive care package that proved very difficult to organise.
Subject terms:
home care, physical disabilities, risk, assessment, carers, care management, care planning, community care;
Many disabled people living in the community require regular short stays in hospital, otherwise they would have to live in residential care. However, a recent change in law is putting their social security benefits at risk.
Many disabled people living in the community require regular short stays in hospital, otherwise they would have to live in residential care. However, a recent change in law is putting their social security benefits at risk.
Subject terms:
hospitals, law, physical disabilities, residential care, risk, benefits, carers, financing;
A woman with multiple sclerosis whose husband had drinking problems had been receiving day care for years, but increased care was needed. Considers the difficulties of deciding how much weight should be given to the client's wishes when assessing an acceptable level of risk.
A woman with multiple sclerosis whose husband had drinking problems had been receiving day care for years, but increased care was needed. Considers the difficulties of deciding how much weight should be given to the client's wishes when assessing an acceptable level of risk.
Subject terms:
multiple sclerosis, parents, physical disabilities, risk, social work, social care provision, day services, decision making, families;
Amid the widespread concern about this country's high rate of teenage pregnancies, the work carried out by practitioners to improve the parenting skills of teenage parents is often overlooked. Here, the author talks to a social worker about a young woman learning to accept her new responsibilities.
Amid the widespread concern about this country's high rate of teenage pregnancies, the work carried out by practitioners to improve the parenting skills of teenage parents is often overlooked. Here, the author talks to a social worker about a young woman learning to accept her new responsibilities.
Subject terms:
mothers, parental attitudes, parental skills training, physical disabilities, risk, single parent families, teenage parents, teenage pregnancy, young offenders, young people, child protection, children, drug misuse;
How a social worker approached a case involving a mother with parenting problems and her twin teenage daughters, one of whom is profoundly disabled while the other exhibits very challenging behaviour.
How a social worker approached a case involving a mother with parenting problems and her twin teenage daughters, one of whom is profoundly disabled while the other exhibits very challenging behaviour.
Subject terms:
mothers, physical disabilities, professional registration, residential care, risk, social workers, vulnerable children, assessment, challenging behaviour, child neglect, child protection, children, families;