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Jenny Morris - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Community Care or independent living?
Critical Social Policy, 1994Co-Authors: Jenny MorrisAbstract:Community Care policies, despite their rhetoric about helping people to live independent lives, are based on an ideology of dependency. This means that Community Care practice - in particular the changes in the Independent Living Fund and the way that statutory services are delivered - often constitutes a barrier to independent living. Research on the experience of receiving personal assistance with daily living activities found that receiving cash to pay for assistance enables disabled people to make the kind of choices in their lives which non- disabled people take for granted. However, there are opportunities within the Community Care reforms to promote independent living principles and these need to be seized upon by both professionals and disabled people.
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Community Care or Independent Living
1993Co-Authors: Jenny MorrisAbstract:The people whose experiences are explored in Part II confront daily the issues raised by the development of Community Care policies. We conclude this book by looking at how far the 1990/93 Community Care reforms are likely to contribute to the disability movement’s goal of independent living.
Tinne Dilles - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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High-risk medication in Community Care: a scoping review
European Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, 2020Co-Authors: Irina Dumitrescu, Minne Casteels, Kristel De Vliegher, Tinne DillesAbstract:Purpose To review the international literature related to high-risk medication (HRM) in Community Care, in order to (1) define a definition of HRM and (2) list the medication that is considered HRM in Community Care. Methods Scoping review: Five databases were systematically searched (MEDLINE, Scopus, CINAHL, Web Of Science, and Cochrane) and extended with a hand search of cited references. Two researchers reviewed the papers independently. All extracted definitions and lists of HRM were subjected to a self-developed quality appraisal. Data were extracted, analysed and summarised in tables. Critical attributes were extracted in order to analyse the definitions. Results Of the 109 papers retrieved, 36 met the inclusion criteria and were included in this review. Definitions for HRM in Community Care were used inconsistently among the papers, and various recurrent attributes of the concept HRM were used. Taking the recurrent attributes and the quality score of the definitions into account, the following definition could be derived: “High-risk medication are medications with an increased risk of significant harm to the patient. The consequences of this harm can be more serious than those with other medications”. A total of 66 specific medications or categories were extracted from the papers. Opioids, insulin, warfarin, heparin, hypnotics and sedatives, chemotherapeutic agents (excluding hormonal agents), methotrexate and hypoglycaemic agents were the most common reported HRM in Community Care. Conclusion The existing literature pertaining to HRM in Community Care was examined. The definitions and medicines reported as HRM in the literature are used inconsistently. We suggested a definition for more consistent use in future research and policy. Future research is needed to determine more precisely which definitions should be considered for HRM in Community Care.
Kerry Caldock - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Policy and practice: fundamental contradictions in the conceptualization of Community Care for elderly people?
Health & Social Care in the Community, 2007Co-Authors: Kerry CaldockAbstract:For more than two decades, Community Care has been proclaimed the answer to the 'social problem’ of the ageing of the population. Since the publication of the Community Care White Paper (Department of Health 1989), a plethora of discussion and guidance documents have followed. In this paper, critical examination is made of some of the assumptions that appear to underpin policy and debate about Community Care. It is argued that recent policy and Community Care reforms may be affected adversely by inherent conceptual contradictions and conflicting understandings and expectations about Community Care. It is suggested that the reassuring connotations of the phrase ‘Community Care’ may not be reflected in its reality and that the debate needs to be extended to acknowledge and address some of the underlying dynamics, contradictions and interactions that may have a bearing on the success of the reforms.
Irina Dumitrescu - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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High-risk medication in Community Care: a scoping review
European Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, 2020Co-Authors: Irina Dumitrescu, Minne Casteels, Kristel De Vliegher, Tinne DillesAbstract:Purpose To review the international literature related to high-risk medication (HRM) in Community Care, in order to (1) define a definition of HRM and (2) list the medication that is considered HRM in Community Care. Methods Scoping review: Five databases were systematically searched (MEDLINE, Scopus, CINAHL, Web Of Science, and Cochrane) and extended with a hand search of cited references. Two researchers reviewed the papers independently. All extracted definitions and lists of HRM were subjected to a self-developed quality appraisal. Data were extracted, analysed and summarised in tables. Critical attributes were extracted in order to analyse the definitions. Results Of the 109 papers retrieved, 36 met the inclusion criteria and were included in this review. Definitions for HRM in Community Care were used inconsistently among the papers, and various recurrent attributes of the concept HRM were used. Taking the recurrent attributes and the quality score of the definitions into account, the following definition could be derived: “High-risk medication are medications with an increased risk of significant harm to the patient. The consequences of this harm can be more serious than those with other medications”. A total of 66 specific medications or categories were extracted from the papers. Opioids, insulin, warfarin, heparin, hypnotics and sedatives, chemotherapeutic agents (excluding hormonal agents), methotrexate and hypoglycaemic agents were the most common reported HRM in Community Care. Conclusion The existing literature pertaining to HRM in Community Care was examined. The definitions and medicines reported as HRM in the literature are used inconsistently. We suggested a definition for more consistent use in future research and policy. Future research is needed to determine more precisely which definitions should be considered for HRM in Community Care.
Peter Sharkey - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Community work and Community Care: Links in practice and in education
Social Work Education, 2000Co-Authors: Peter SharkeyAbstract:This article emphasises the individualising nature of much current Community Care provision and then discusses opportunities which may have been presented by the emphasis on user-empowerment within the Community Care changes. Drawing on personal experience and written from a perspective that we need a Community Care provision infused with the practices and values of Community work, the article considers how Community work needs to change and how Community Care workers need to change. The implications for social work educators are brought out throughout the article.