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No more holidays on ice
- Author:
- VALIOS Natalie
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 27.06.02, 2002, pp.28-29.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Disabled people going on holiday sometimes face discrimination over travel arrangements and problems with room access in holiday accommodation. Looks at service that take the stress out of holidays.
The use of preexisting and novel coping strategies in adapting to age-related vision loss
- Authors:
- BRENNAN Mark, CARDINALI Gina
- Journal article citation:
- Gerontologist, 40(3), June 2000, pp.327-334.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
This study presents data in the form of spontaneous comments or responses to open-ended questions from three previous quantitative studies of adaption to age-related vision loss. Self-reported coping strategies were identified using a "Grounded Theory" approach, and then examined for evidence of whether the strategy was recently utilized (novel) or whether it had been used prior to vision loss (preexisting). Results supported the utilization of novel coping strategies in the process of adaptation to a chronic impairment among older adults. Overall, the use of novel coping strategies was found to be associated with better adaptational outcomes, emphasizing perspective, stress and coping in response to stressful life circumstances.
For better, for worse
- Author:
- BOND Henrietta
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 7.1.98, 1999, pp.24-25.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Social worker Jennifer Dixon faced a difficult situation when she tried to help a couple who were dependent on one another, but needed outside help which they were not keen to accept. Reports on the risk factor.
Parenting stress and abuse potential in mothers of children with developmental disabilities
- Authors:
- RODRIGUEZ Christina M., MURPHY Laura E.
- Journal article citation:
- Child Maltreatment, 2(3), August 1997, pp.245-251.
- Publisher:
- Sage
Most research on parenting stress and abuse factors in parents of children with developmental disabilities has relied almost exclusively on Caucasian, middle-income, intact families. This article investigates the generalisability of previous findings, examining the relations among parenting stress, abuse potential, and child's intellectual/adaptive functioning in a sample of low-income African American mothers of children with developmental delays.
Business support strategies for improving retention and reintegration of disabled employees in SMEs: a review of evidence and recommendations for pilot delivery within action two of the London Workforce Futures Equal Programme
- Author:
- TRINOVA
- Publisher:
- London Workforce Futures Partnership
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 93p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
The London Workforce Futures Equal Development Partnership aims to develop a new coherent strategic policy framework and a co-ordinated best practice service model to address the identified needs of both SME employers and disabled employees for more responsive and flexible support, to reduce the current perceived fragmentation of service delivery. The programme of work specifically focuses on: the needs of SMEs; to enable them to adapt to the needs of workforce members. This will include an emphasis on implementation of the Disability Discrimination Act; the needs of disabled people (particularly those with mental ill-health) from black and minority ethnic communities, older people and lone parents; piloting innovative models of support using an employer-focused approach, new strategies, solutions and competency models (to enable effective reintegration and retention of employees who are suffering from physical or mental health problems as well as those who are at risk of drop-out from the workforce due to physical or mental stress)
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.