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Designing accessible managed care service for people with physical disabilities: consumer suggestions within an emergent design process
- Authors:
- WOLF-BRANIGIN Michael, LEROY Barbara
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Social Work in Disability and Rehabilitation, 3(3), 2004, pp.3-16.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
Persons with physical disabilities have difficulty accessing health care. This has become more pronounced with the emergence of managed care and other efforts to limit growing healthcare costs. In responding to a state's Medicaid office interest in designing accessible health services, a consumer-based evaluation including a series of nine focus groups (96 participants) was conducted using an emergent design method. This inductive analysis approach identified difficulties and provided the basis for recommending strategies to improve access. Two sets of consumer recommended strategies consistently were expressed during this process: (1) initiating one-to-one advocacy to improve local service coordination and (2) performing person-centered planning at enrollment in a managed care plan to facilitate appropriate and prompt access. These access strategies formed the basis for a later intervention design. (Copies of this article are available from: Haworth Document Delivery Centre, Haworth Press Inc., 10 Alice Street, Binghamton, NY 13904-1580)
Social care practice handbook
- Authors:
- LEONARD CHESHIRE, SOCIAL CARE ASSOCIATION
- Publisher:
- Leonard Cheshire,|Social Care Association
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- ca. 254p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This resource covers all aspects of dealing with clients in health care, social care, home car, day care and short-term residential and day-care settings, including fundamental basics, such as respecting clients rights and effective communication. Includes a code of ethics and policy on equal opportunities.
Social work and the Norwegian welfare state
- Editors:
- TUTVEDT Oyvind, YOUNG Lawrence
- Publisher:
- Norwegian State College of Local Government Administration and Social Work
- Publication year:
- 1991
- Pagination:
- 298p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Oslo
Contains chapters on: the historical development of social work in Norway; the role of social work in the Norwegian welfare state; theory and practice of social work - examples from Norway; values in social work in Norway; social work with physically handicapped people; child welfare and guidance; social work within municipal social welfare offices; social work education in Norway; the Norwegian welfare state - its aims and organisations; and Norway's public health service.
The experience of defended adults: implications for rehabilitative services
- Authors:
- AGUAYO Miguel O., COADY Nick F.
- Journal article citation:
- Health and Social Work, 26(4), November 2001, pp.269-276.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
This study explores the psychological and social effects of becoming deaf as an adolescent or adult and the adequacy of rehabilitation services offered to such individuals. Qualitative interviews were conducted with a sample of eight deafened adults in the Province of Ontario, Canada. The results indicated that medical interventions were relied on exclusively as rehabilitation services for the deafened adults. None of the study participants were referred to individual, family, or group counseling by their physicians or hearing health services providers, despite the many negative effects of becoming deaf that participants described. Concludes that the rehabilitation systems for adventitious deafness needs the involvement of counselors and social workers to better ensure that the psychosocial needs of clients are addressed.
Allocation of care and services in an area-based system for long-term care of elderly and disabled people
- Author:
- LAGERGREN Marten
- Journal article citation:
- Ageing and Society, 14(3), September 1994, pp.357-381.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
In order to analyse the allocation of public care services in the city of Solna, Sweden, and how they changed in response to a rapid growth of the number of elderly people, a comparison was made between two surveys, 1985 and 1991. The analysis showed that older and non-married persons were more likely to become clients of the public care system. Institutionalisation was also more common among the non-married - especially for men. Reductions in institutionalisation had most impact on very old, non-married men. Functional disability and living arrangements were the most important variables in explaining the allocation of home help in domiciliary care and sheltered housing.
Social services: achievement and challenge; presented to Parliament by the Secretary of State for Health by Command of Her Majesty, March 1997
- Authors:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health, GREAT BRITAIN. Welsh Office
- Publisher:
- Stationery Office
- Publication year:
- 1997
- Pagination:
- 39p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Government White Paper on the future of social services.
Social services made simple
- Authors:
- BYRNE Tony, PADFIELD Colin F
- Publisher:
- Heinemann
- Publication year:
- 1987
- Pagination:
- 387p., tables.
- Place of publication:
- London