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Making headway
- Authors:
- GEORGE Mike, NEEDHAM Carol
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 14.6.01, May 2001, pp.32-33.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
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.
Thwarted by her mother?
- Authors:
- LAMPERT James, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 1.11.01, 2001, pp.42-43.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
A multidisciplinary panel consider the case of a women with cerebal palsy, whose mother does not want her to move out and live independently.
Our way or no way
- Author:
- GEORGE Mike
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 12.7.01, 2001, pp.32-33.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
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 payments go to school
- Author:
- STEVENS Simon
- Journal article citation:
- Community Living, 14(3), January 2001, pp.6-7.
- Publisher:
- Hexagon Publishing
Direct payments policy will be five years old this year. Examines the problems it is facing and the lessons it must learn. Focuses on the area of personal assistants.
Frankenstein homes: would you want to live in one?
- Author:
- TAYLOR Bruce J.
- Journal article citation:
- New Technology in the Human Services, 14(1/2), 2001, pp.28-38.
- Publisher:
- Centre for Human Service Technology
The media have, in some instances, portrayed smart houses as Frankenstein homes that could potentially run amok with ruinous if not necessarily fatal consequences. Smart homes turn a simple robust system, a house, into a complex tightly coupled system, which means that the potential for failure is increased beyond that predicted by conventional risk analysis. There is some justification in these sensational media stories about smart homes. Furthermore, the lay persons perception of risk is based, not on the absolute risk assessments of experts, but on three more or less independent factors: dread risk, unknown risk, societal and personal exposure.
Rights and wrongs?
- Author:
- GEORGE Mike
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 17.5.01, 2001, pp.36-37.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
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.
A precarious package
- Author:
- GEORGE Mike
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 5.4.01, 2001, pp.30-31.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
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.
Childhood risks and protective factors in social exclusion
- Author:
- BYNNER John
- Journal article citation:
- Children and Society, 15(5), November 2001, pp.285-301.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Combating social exclusion is a dominant theme in the current policy agenda. This paper draws together a dialogue between the idea of risk and social exclusion. With reference to the research literatures the nature of social exclusion and the risk factors and protective factors for children are discussed.
Law and social work: contemporary issues for practice
- Editors:
- CULL Lesley-Ann, ROCHE Jeremy
- Publisher:
- Palgrave/Open University Press
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 302p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Basingstoke
Divided into three sections, each of which sheds light in different ways on the challenges and critical issues raised at the interface between social work and the law, this text covers issues such as: the relationship between social work values and the law; partnership with service users; risk and professional judgement; human rights; child protection and family support; elder abuse; youth justice; disability and special educational needs; and community care.
Migration ageing and mental health: an ethnographic study on perceptions of life satisfaction anxiety and depression in older Somali men in east London
- Authors:
- SILVEIRA Ellen, ALLEBECK Peter
- Journal article citation:
- International Journal of Social Welfare, 10(4), October 2001, pp.309-320.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
This ethnographic study was carried out in the aftermath of an epidemiological investigation, the first of its kind, on the health and social status of Somalis aged 60 years and over living in Tower Hamlets, east London. The main aims of the study were to explore views on mental health and well-being and identify sources of stress and support so as to gain greater understanding of background factors of life satisfaction and depression in 'first-generation' older Somali migrants in Tower Hamlets (males). Face-to-face interviews were conducted among 28 males. Several factors were perceived to decrease life satisfaction and increase vulnerability to depression in male Somalis, in particular low family support in the face of increasing physical disability, loneliness, inadequate access to community services and inability to return home. Family support was the main buffer against depression; other coping resources were represented by religious practices and reliance on Somali peers. The study revealed multiple reasons for ill-being, in particular in people who had high expectations about medical and social care. Argues there is a need for social workers and other health professionals to advance discussions of mental-health issues in the community and for service providers to promote greater access to culturally relevant medical and social services for Somali elders in Tower Hamlets and strengthen their informal support networks.