It is important that privacy is respected in all care settings so that people can maintain their dignity. This includes privacy regarding personal information; rooms; using the bathroom; post; phone calls; and relationships. These are some of the things that this film looks at when discussing privacy and its role as a major contributor to providing dignity in care. The film shows that if staff need to see someone's mail for administrative reasons, that event is signed and dated. Privacy in practice can mean making sure that a confidentiality policy is in place and followed by all staff; making issues of privacy and dignity a fundamental part of staff induction and training; and making sure that only those who need information to carry out their work have access to people's personal records
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It is important that privacy is respected in all care settings so that people can maintain their dignity. This includes privacy regarding personal information; rooms; using the bathroom; post; phone calls; and relationships. These are some of the things that this film looks at when discussing privacy and its role as a major contributor to providing dignity in care. The film shows that if staff need to see someone's mail for administrative reasons, that event is signed and dated. Privacy in practice can mean making sure that a confidentiality policy is in place and followed by all staff; making issues of privacy and dignity a fundamental part of staff induction and training; and making sure that only those who need information to carry out their work have access to people's personal records or financial information.
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Subject terms:
privacy, dignity, confidentiality, service users, access to information, interpersonal relationships;
... remote monitoring technologies. Their assessments of each technology’s impact on privacy, safety, independence, freedom, relationship with family member, social life, and identity are also compared.Research Design and Methods: This dyadic study used cognitive-based interview probing and value-centered design methods. Twenty-eight individual, in-depth, structured interviews were conducted with 18 women and the importance of engaging them fully in decision making. Most were confident that they could persuade their mothers to adopt. For both groups, privacy was the most-cited concern, and participants perceived significant overlap between values of privacy, independence, identity, and freedom.Discussion and Implications: Studying privacy in isolation overlooks privacy’s instrumental role in enabling other values.
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Background and Objectives: Despite the surveilling nature of technologies that allow caregivers to remotely monitor location, movements, or activities, the potential differences in comfort with remote monitoring between caregivers and care recipients have not been examined in depth. On the dyad and aggregate level, we compare preferences of older adult women and their adult children for three remote monitoring technologies. Their assessments of each technology’s impact on privacy, safety, independence, freedom, relationship with family member, social life, and identity are also compared.Research Design and Methods: This dyadic study used cognitive-based interview probing and value-centered design methods. Twenty-eight individual, in-depth, structured interviews were conducted with 18 women who are Meals on Wheels clients and 10 of their adult children.Results: Meals on Wheels participants reported multiple chronic conditions and an average of 1.7 ADL and 3.3 IADL difficulties; two thirds were enrolled in Medicaid. Adult children preferred each technology more than their mothers did and underestimated both their mothers’ ability to comprehend the functions of the technologies and the importance of engaging them fully in decision making. Most were confident that they could persuade their mothers to adopt. For both groups, privacy was the most-cited concern, and participants perceived significant overlap between values of privacy, independence, identity, and freedom.Discussion and Implications: Studying privacy in isolation overlooks privacy’s instrumental role in enabling other values. Shared decision-making tools are needed to promote remote monitoring use consistent with older adults’ values and to prevent conflict and caregiver overreach.
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Subject terms:
monitoring, service users, carer views, activities of daily living, privacy, ethics, electronic monitoring;
THINK LOCAL ACT PERSONAL, IN CONTROL, INDEPENDENT LIVING STRATEGY GROUP
Publisher:
Think Local Act Personal
Publication year:
2019
Pagination:
7
Place of publication:
London
... that supports personalisation and that balances the need for probity with the right of individual privacy. The paper follows research commissioned by Think Local Act Personal and undertaken by In Control and the Independent Living Strategy Group, which identified significant variation in the way payment cards were being used across the country.
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This paper offers recommendations to support Care Act statutory guidance in relation to personal budgets and the use of payment cards in social care. The recommendations are designed to support best practice and ensure greater consistency in the use of payment cards nationally. It also provides card providers with guidance that ensures payment cards develop into a positive technology that supports personalisation and that balances the need for probity with the right of individual privacy. The paper follows research commissioned by Think Local Act Personal and undertaken by In Control and the Independent Living Strategy Group, which identified significant variation in the way payment cards were being used across the country.
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Subject terms:
Care Act 2014, choice, direct payments, local authorities, service users, privacy;
... authorities on people who would prefer their personal budget to be managed in other ways; their adoption leading to an unnecessary and unwarranted invasion of privacy; undue and unnecessary restrictions on choice and control. Out of 152 local authorities, 69 reported using payment cards, with other authorities considering their introduction. The use of payment cards means that local authorities can view
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This report analyses the results of Freedom of Information (FOI) returns from English councils with statutory social services responsibilities on their use of payment cards – a way for local authorities to manage the allocation of funding for people receiving a direct social care payment. The analysis was interested in three main issues in relation to payment cards: their imposition by local authorities on people who would prefer their personal budget to be managed in other ways; their adoption leading to an unnecessary and unwarranted invasion of privacy; undue and unnecessary restrictions on choice and control. Out of 152 local authorities, 69 reported using payment cards, with other authorities considering their introduction. The use of payment cards means that local authorities can view transactions disabled people make on the cards by accessing the client’s account and suspend use of a card if they do not approve of how people are using the cards. Increasing use of payment cards also raises concerns of whether people receiving direct payments get choice about how they receive their payments, as stipulated in Care Act guidance. The report makes 10 recommendations for local authorities who are using or thinking of using payment cards to ensure they comply with Care Act guidance by offering people choice and control over how their support is delivered. The report was written by In Control and published by the Shaw Trust, on behalf of the Independent Living Strategy group.
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Subject terms:
local authorities, Care Act 2014, direct payments, choice, service users, privacy;
Smith College Studies in Social Work, 81(1), 2011, pp.7-25.
Publisher:
Taylor and Francis
Place of publication:
Philadelphia, USA
... clinical case material. The article summarises participants' responses, with examples. The study found that the participants shared strong commitments to their clients' rights to privacy and the need to maintain confidentiality, but generally expressed confusion and ambivalence about preferred means of protecting the privacy, including concerns about seeking informed consent from clients.
Based on a qualitative study of 8 professionals, this article summarises perceptions of experienced social work clinicians and journal editors about the ethical dilemmas of publishing confidential case material in writing about clinical practice. The article presents a brief review of the literature on the topic, describes the methodology of the study, and discusses the findings. All participants were clinical social workers, 3 had published professional and academic books on social work practice, and 4 were editors of social work journals at the time of the interviews. The interviews explored the participants' education and training, experiences with clinical writing, ethical and therapeutic challenges encountered in clinical writing, and personal and professional policies about publishing clinical case material. The article summarises participants' responses, with examples. The study found that the participants shared strong commitments to their clients' rights to privacy and the need to maintain confidentiality, but generally expressed confusion and ambivalence about preferred means of protecting the privacy, including concerns about seeking informed consent from clients.
Subject terms:
professional conduct, privacy, service users, social workers, case studies, confidentiality, ethics;
Drawing on recent work commissioned by the Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE), the ethical issues relating to the commissioning and provision of telecare services are discussed. Ethical concerns in the areas of pre-installation and post-installation are covered, highlighting the need to achieve a balance between independence, privacy and protection. Messages for practitioners and a short
Drawing on recent work commissioned by the Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE), the ethical issues relating to the commissioning and provision of telecare services are discussed. Ethical concerns in the areas of pre-installation and post-installation are covered, highlighting the need to achieve a balance between independence, privacy and protection. Messages for practitioners and a short case study are also included.
Subject terms:
privacy, rights, service users, telecare, assessment, assistive technology, ethics;
... to relaxation and sleep; in lounge, being excluded from the group can be a source of negative feelings. Lack of well-being in the bathroom is related to feelings of incapacity and to violations of privacy. Practical implications of findings are discussed with regard to the role of health care assistants, nurses and activities co-ordinators in the promotion of residents’ well-being.
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The aim of the present paper is to analyse the well-being of elderly people in institutions, particularly in relation to the use of space in the Nursing Home (NH). Little research has been done on how older people experience the environment of the NH. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 18 Nursing Home residents between the ages of 67 and 90. The findings indicate that the informants’ expressions of well-being belong to two main categories: “Well-being in public and private spaces” “Lack of Well-being in public and private spaces”. Two comprehensive themes were identified as relevant to a better understanding of the residents’ expressions of well-being: Emotional states, Own/Others’ behaviours and activities. From results emerged that in residents’ room, peacefulness is fundamental to relaxation and sleep; in lounge, being excluded from the group can be a source of negative feelings. Lack of well-being in the bathroom is related to feelings of incapacity and to violations of privacy. Practical implications of findings are discussed with regard to the role of health care assistants, nurses and activities co-ordinators in the promotion of residents’ well-being.
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Subject terms:
wellbeing, older people, nursing homes, residential care, service users, user views, privacy, relationships;
With the growth of social networking, the author asks whether there is a role for social workers in monitoring what service users are posting online and in taking steps to ensuring children, whether adopted, looked-after or otherwise, are kept safe from harm. It uses the example of Baby Peter's mother Tracey Connelly who regularly posted her thoughts on social networking sites to illustrate how monitoring posts could have helped protect Baby Peter. Children who are adopted or long term fostered and who post their details online could also be traced by their natural families. The author highlights the need for social workers to keep pace with these changes and be clear about the advice they are giving to families around social networking and safety.
With the growth of social networking, the author asks whether there is a role for social workers in monitoring what service users are posting online and in taking steps to ensuring children, whether adopted, looked-after or otherwise, are kept safe from harm. It uses the example of Baby Peter's mother Tracey Connelly who regularly posted her thoughts on social networking sites to illustrate how monitoring posts could have helped protect Baby Peter. Children who are adopted or long term fostered and who post their details online could also be traced by their natural families. The author highlights the need for social workers to keep pace with these changes and be clear about the advice they are giving to families around social networking and safety.
Subject terms:
internet, privacy, service users, social media, social networks, social workers, child protection, confidentiality, ethics;
Care workers are introduced to the concepts of access and application of policies and procedures, the organisation’s aims & values and working in partnership with other workers and the service user. It also considers the responsibilities a care worker has, as set out in the General Social Care Council’s Code of Practice for Social Care Workers. This video will help them answer such questions as: What standard of conduct is expected of me? What tasks and activities will I be expected to carry out? Where do I go for advice, information and support? Why should I support the involvement of carers and family? This title, contributes to improving understanding of the various interrelating issues that combine to ensure the role of the care worker is central to promoting good principles of care that meet the individual needs of service users.
Care workers are introduced to the concepts of access and application of policies and procedures, the organisation’s aims & values and working in partnership with other workers and the service user. It also considers the responsibilities a care worker has, as set out in the General Social Care Council’s Code of Practice for Social Care Workers. This video will help them answer such questions as: What standard of conduct is expected of me? What tasks and activities will I be expected to carry out? Where do I go for advice, information and support? Why should I support the involvement of carers and family? This title, contributes to improving understanding of the various interrelating issues that combine to ensure the role of the care worker is central to promoting good principles of care that meet the individual needs of service users.
Subject terms:
home care, independence, person-centred care, professional conduct, privacy, service users, carers, choice, diversity, equal opportunities;
Designed exclusively for those providing care within the care home setting, this two part title introduces carers to the values that underpin person-centred care. It assists them to develop their understanding of how principles of care should be reflected in their day-to-day practices by exploring the values of individuality, rights, choice, privacy, independence, dignity, respect
Designed exclusively for those providing care within the care home setting, this two part title introduces carers to the values that underpin person-centred care. It assists them to develop their understanding of how principles of care should be reflected in their day-to-day practices by exploring the values of individuality, rights, choice, privacy, independence, dignity, respect and partnership. It goes on to look at the right service users have to take risks in their lives and how the care plan and risk assessment can assist to protect individuals from harm. It also considers the meaning of equal opportunities and diversity.
Subject terms:
home care, independence, person-centred care, privacy, service users, social care staff, carers, choice, diversity, equal opportunities;