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Management of the patient with disruptive vocalisation
- Authors:
- SLOANE Philip D., et al
- Journal article citation:
- Gerontologist, 37(5), October 1997, pp.675-682.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
Discusses how disruptive vocalisation (DV) is a common problem in the management of cognitively and physically impaired older people. This article reports the results of a consensus meeting in the USA convened to provide guidelines for clinicians and recommendations for researchers in this difficult and little-studied behavioural problem.
Support staff in a sample of Australian community-based services for people with a disability: career intentions, personal characteristics and professional development needs
- Authors:
- DEMPSEY Ian, ARTHUR Michael
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Intellectual and Developmental Disability, 27(3), September 2002, pp.201-214.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Staff characteristics and training are two influential factors in the design and development of human service systems. Despite close scrutiny of these components of service delivery in a variety of disciplines, relatively little is known about staffing issues in the disability industry. This article reports the characteristics, career intentions and professional development needs of staff from a wide variety of services for people with a disability in NSW, Australia. Staff were predominantly female, male staff were much less likely to regard their future career as lying in the disability field, and there was evidence that employers were providing some training to staff that addressed their professional development needs.
Theorising disability as political subjectivity: work by the UIC Disability Collective on political subjectivities
- Authors:
- JARMAN Michelle, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 17(5), August 2002, pp.555-569.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Disability studies have shown how therapeutic professionals and people with disabilities occupy opposite sides of a deep cultural divide, one that artificially bisects normalcy from 'abnormalcy'. The philosophy of political subjectivity provides an opportunity to analyse the nexus that exists between institutions and those who navigate them as professionals and 'clients'. This article seeks to theorise the subject positions that emerge as a result of this often volatile intersection by offering up four critical vignettes: (1) an analysis of the systems and networks that characterise disabled transport within the Chicago Transit Authority; (2) speech therapy training and clinical practices designed for those whose articulation is diagnosed as inferior; (3) an African American clinician's analysis of disability taxonomies applied to minority wards of the state of Illinois; and (4) an analysis of scapegoating at the national level in a class-action law suit regarding the 'missed' diagnosis of disability prior to birth.
A watchful eye
- Author:
- WHITE Caroline
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 30.7.98, 1998, pp.24-25.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Outlines how police in Hastings have pioneered a Registered Homes Watch scheme which extends the vetting and checking procedures for staff in children's homes and those working with elderly and disabled people.
Adult placement counts: a survey of adult placement schemes in England
- Author:
- BERNARD Sylvia
- Publisher:
- TOPSS England
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- 30p.
- Place of publication:
- Leeds
The research showed that two-thirds of adult placement carers were not registered with the then National Care Standards Commission. Carers were, in the main, self-employed and only a small minority received enhancements linked to the level of dependency or need of service users. Nearly three quarters of adult placement carers were women and 95% were aged 35 and over. A greater percentage of carers were from ethnic minority groups (15%) than were service users (5%). People with learning difficulties comprised the largest service user group (71%), followed by older people (17%), then people with mental health problems (8%) and physical disabilities (4%). Schemes tended to have mixed user groups and were providing a wide range of services. The survey demonstrates widespread commitment to adult placement as a form of care, and shows potential for future development in certain user groups and regions. In common with the rest of the sector, there is a considerable amount to be done to facilitate and support the training of staff and carers. Adult placement carers are shown to have been marginalised in relation to the rest of the social care workforce and in comparison with foster carers in children’s services.
Direct payments: the information deficit
- Authors:
- BRANDON David, MAGLAJLIC Rea
- Journal article citation:
- Working with Older People, 4(3), July 2000, pp.26-27.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Direct payments can now be made to older people. But a 12-month research project has revealed that service users, carers and junior staff still have little knowledge of them. The authors of the Shield research team, Anglia Polytechnic University, and Tower Hamlets Coalition of Disabled People explain that service users are cautiously optimistic about what direct payments offer them but are anxious about the practicalities.