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Meeting a need
- Author:
- HUGHES Sarah
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 29.9.93, 1993, pp.36-37.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
Looks at the increasing recognition of the role of the community nurse in supporting the families of sick children.
Children who care: inside the world of young carers
- Authors:
- ALDRIDGE Jo, BECKER Saul
- Publisher:
- Nottinghamshire Association of Voluntary Organisations/Loughborough University.
- Publication year:
- 1993
- Pagination:
- 100p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Mansfield
Research report based in Nottinghamshire and looking at the experiences of 15 young carers. Looks at caring tasks and responsibilities; networks of informal and formal support; the effects of caring; and the expressed needs of young carers.
ABC of one to seven
- Author:
- VALMAN H.B
- Publisher:
- British Medical Association
- Publication year:
- 1993
- Pagination:
- 144p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Covers every aspect of child development from the age of 1 - 7.
My mum needs me: helping children with ill or disabled parents
- Authors:
- SEGAL Julia, SIMKINS John
- Publisher:
- Penguin
- Publication year:
- 1993
- Pagination:
- 253p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Looks at the effects on children of having a parent who is ill or disabled and at ways of offering help. Includes a chapter on the death of a parent.
Health and function in the third age: papers prepared for the Carnegie Inquiry into the Third Age
- Authors:
- EVANS J. Grimley, et al
- Publisher:
- Nuffield Provincial Hospitals Trust
- Publication year:
- 1993
- Pagination:
- 206p.,tables,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- London
Contains papers on: human ageing and the differences between young and old; active life expectancy and disability; Ischaemic heart disease; chronic bronchitis; osteoarthritis; osteoporosis; stroke; cancers; depression; dementia; incontinence; risk factors; physical fitness; visual and hearing abilities; and psychological function and ageing.
People and places: a 1991 census atlas of England
- Authors:
- FORREST Ray, GORDON Dave
- Publisher:
- University of Bristol. School for Advanced Urban Studies
- Publication year:
- 1993
- Pagination:
- 108p.,tables.
- Place of publication:
- Bristol
Includes maps showing statistics of: housing; changes in housing ownership; households with central heating and cars; household composition; long term illness; pensioner households; employment; minority ethnic groups; and material and social deprivation.
Health, welfare and practice: reflecting on roles and relationships
- Editors:
- WALMSLEY Jan, et al
- Publisher:
- Sage/Open University
- Publication year:
- 1993
- Pagination:
- 214p.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- London
Broad ranging text exploring key issues in the provision and use of caring services. Focuses on the roles and relationships between health and social welfare services. Includes chapters on: caring roles and caring relationships; the health service/social work divide; midwives and doctors on the labour ward; pregnancy and childbirth - a historical perspective; how the poor die (by George Orwell); feminist theory and strategy in social work; anti-racist curriculums in social work training; women clients and women social workers; violence against black women; men - the forgotten carers; older women; acquired hearing loss; new disability services; empowerment and oppression; an account of living on a children's ward; personal and medical memories from Hillsborough; group care; and establishing a feminist model of groupwork in the probation service.