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Making choice a reality
- Author:
- BRANDON David
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 28.6.90, 1990, p.vi.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Reports on CHOICE - a disabled person's organisation in North London which is effectively putting case management into practice.
Getting users' plans to take off
- Authors:
- BRANDON Althea, BRANDON David
- Journal article citation:
- Care Weekly, 14.10.93, 1993, pp.12-13.
Care planning is a vital issue in community care. Individual care plans will only work if care managers react in a flexible way to the needs of disabled people.
Care planning: the 'magnets' that draw us together
- Authors:
- BRANDON Althea, BRANDON David
- Journal article citation:
- Care Plan, 1(3), March 1995, pp.20-21.
- Publisher:
- Positive Publications/ Anglia Polytechnic University, Faculty of Health and Social Work
Care planning should be a profound and genuine attempt to individualise services for people with disabilities. It should mean a transfer of power from professionals to services users. Describes what it should involve.
Keeping consumers at the centre of planning
- Authors:
- BRANDON David, HAWKES Annie
- Journal article citation:
- Care Plan, 6(1), September 1999, pp.8-14.
- Publisher:
- Positive Publications/ Anglia Polytechnic University, Faculty of Health and Social Work
The authors suggest that assessment and care planning needs a system which can be understood by services users as well as by professionals. They show how the 'four magnets' - control, skills, pain and contact - can be unifying and holistic.