Category: Social Services

Safeguarding adults together under the Care Act 2014: a multi-agency practice guide

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Starns, Barbara. Pages: 266 Format: PDF Publisher: Critical Publishing
Published: 07/10/2019
eISBN-13: 9781913063276

The Care Act 2014 has been criticised for the lack of a clear process for professionals to follow. With its emphasis on the personal individual approach to safeguarding, professionals have sometimes felt unclear as to how they should deliver safeguarding support.

Written by a practitioner, with an academic background, Safeguarding Adults Together seeks to provide that vital guidance. Whilst there is an absence of process in the Act, there is still a clear set of safeguarding elements which when put together provide a framework of operation for professionals to become more effective in their safeguarding practice. Professionals tend each to look at a particular aspect of safeguarding, but it is only when the whole framework is demonstrated can practitioners understand how they can best provide good safeguarding support to adults who need their help.  This book provides the reader with that knowledge and understanding about how adult safeguarding works by translating the Care Act into practice.

This is a follow book to the successful The Social Worker’s Guide to the Care Act 2014 by Pete Feldon ISBN 9781911106685.

Safeguarding Adults:

  • provides a unique safeguarding framework approach that explains what adult safeguarding is and how it works.
  • includes memorable illustrations that explain difficult complex elements of safeguarding
  • is packed with practice case studies and examples to support understanding of safeguarding and application of knowledge and skill.

The Essential Dementia Care Handbook: A Good Practice Guide

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Edited By Graham Stokes, Fiona Goudie. Pages: 239 Size: 1.32 MB Format: PDF Publisher: Routledge Ltd
Published: 28 April, 2017
eISBN-13: 9781315174075

Replacing the successful “Working with Dementia”, this edition draws together many new ideas and practical approaches from a wide variety of professionals working at the leading edge of the provision of services to people with dementia and provides a comprehensive account of current best practice. Beginning with the diagnosis of dementia and other problems associated with aging, this book considers assessment, the person centered model of dementia, rehabilitation and therapy. It outlines practical interventions, illustrated with case studies that provide a stimulating insight into contemporary understanding and practice. Nursing staff, occupational therapists, residential care workers, social workers and all those in day-to-day contact with elderly people will be inspired by this vital handbook for all care staff.

Health Literacy Among Older Adults

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Karen Kopera-Frye. Pages: 211 Size: 1.53 MB Format: EPUB Publisher: Springer Publishing Company
Published: 28 September, 2016
eISBN-13: 9780826194527

Low health literacy is a critical issue among adults, with over one-third found to have difficulty understanding such basic information as that found on prescription bottles. This is the first graduate textbook to address key health literacy issues as they affect the health and wellbeing of the ageing population. Embracing a topic spanning numerous disciplines, it features a dynamic, multiple contextual systems approach and includes contributions from renowned scholars and practitioners in gerontology, public health, social work, nursing, and other related fields. The text emphasises increasing health literacy among older adults through the use of technological tools and features the most current research, evidence-based programs, and practices. It provides expansive coverage of the intersection of technology and health literacy, highlighting innovative approaches and discussing how to use technology with resource-limited groups, and gives special consideration to rural, impoverished, culturally diverse, and low literacy elders and presents gold standard intervention programs and models. Also covered are the policy implications of programs focusing on increasing health literacy and future directions for meeting the Healthy People 2020 initiative. Case studies, review questions, accompanying PowerPoint lectures, learning objectives, will reinforce learning. Key Features:

  • Provides a one-of-a-kind, multidisciplinary survey of the key health literacy issues of older adults.
  • Focuses on increasing health literacy across the disciplines.
  • Addresses a priority area of Healthy People 2020.
  • Incorporates research and practice from gerontology, psychology, public health, social work, sociology, medicine, and nursing.
  • Includes case studies, review questions, learning objectives, and PowerPoint slides for assisting instructors.

Oxford Textbook of Palliative Social Work

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Terry Altilio and Shirley Otis-Green
Format: Webpage Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2011
Print ISBN-13: 9780199739110
DOI: 10.1093/med/9780199739110.001.0001

This comprehensive, evidence-informed text provides clinicians, researchers, policy-makers and academicians, with content to inform and enrich the guidelines recommended by the National Consensus Project and the National Quality Forum Preferred Practices. It is designed to meet the needs of health social work professionals who seek to provide culturally sensitive biopsychosocial-spiritual care for patients and families living with life-threatening illness. Edited by two of the leading social work clinician-researchers in the US, this text serves as the definitive resource for practicing clinicians and fulfils the need for social work faculty who wish to complement general health care texts with information specific to palliative and end-of-life care.

Excellence In Dementia Care: Research Into Practice, 2nd ed.

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Edited By Murna Downs And Barbara Bowers.
Pages: 543 Size: 3.85 MB Format: EPUB Publisher: Open University Press
Published: 01 September, 2014
eISBN-13: 9780335245345

This scholarly yet accessible textbook is the most comprehensive single text in the field of dementia care. Drawn from research evidence, international expertise and good practice guidelines, the book has been crafted alongside people with dementia and their families. Case studies and quotes in every chapter illustrate the realities of living with dementia and bring the theory to life. Fully updated with 10 brand new chapters, this landmark textbook has enormous breadth and gives an authoritative overview of dementia care. The 2nd edition now includes chapters on the following topics: Dementia friendly communities Representations of dementia in the media Younger people with dementia The arts and dementia Relationships within families or with family carers Whole person assessment Transitions in careWith engaging and varied pedagogy in each chapter this authoritative and compelling textbook is an absolute must purchase for a range of professionals and academics. Those working or volunteering in health and social care, undergraduate and postgraduate students across a range of disciplines in health and social work, and anyone interested in the field of dementia care will find this text enlightening and essential. This edition of Excellence in Dementia Care provides an important, new and comprehensive overview of the state of the art in caring for the diversity of people with dementia. The international authors and global focus have created a unique textbook that will help educators, students and the broader care community to better understand the challenges and opportunities related to dementia care.

Developing Multiprofessional Teamwork For Integrated Children`s Services

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Angela Anning … [et Al.].
Pages: 157 Size: 4.42 MB Format: PDF Publisher: Open University Press
Published: 01 May, 2010
eISBN-13: 9780335238125

This book is an important practical resource for all professionals engaged with planning, implementing and evaluating multi-professional teamwork and practice in children`s services. The first book to combine theoretical perspectives, research evidence from the `real world` of children`s services, and reflections on policy and practice in inter-agency services in England, this fully updated new edition retains its popular approach, while reflecting the numerous changes to policy, practice, and research. The book exemplifies what multi-professional work looks like in practice. It examines real dilemmas faced by professionals trying to make it work, and shows how these dilemmas can be resolved. It considers lessons to be learnt, implications for practice and recommendations for making multi-professional practice effective. Featuring useful guidance, theoretical frameworks and evidence-based insights into practice, this book is a key resource for students on courses studying early childhood and families, as well as social workers, teachers, support workers in children`s centres, family support workers, health workers, and managers of a range of children and youth services.

Comprehensive Care Coordination for Chronically Ill Adults

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Editors, Cheryl Schraeder, Paul Shelton.

Pages: 486 Size: 18.81 MB Format: PDF Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 18 July, 2011
eISBN-13: 9780470960868

Breakthroughs in medical science and technology, combined with shifts in lifestyle and demographics, have resulted in a rapid rise in the number of individuals living with one or more chronic illnesses. Comprehensive Care Coordination for Chronically Ill Adults presents thorough demographics on this growing sector, describes models for change, reviews current literature and examines various outcomes. Comprehensive Care Coordination for Chronically Ill Adults is divided into two parts. The first provides thorough discussion and background on theoretical concepts of care, including a complete profile of current demographics and chapters on current models of care, intervention components, evaluation methods, health information technology, financing, and educating an interdisciplinary team. The second part of the book uses multiple case studies from various settings to illustrate successful comprehensive care coordination in practice. Nurse, physician and social work leaders in community health, primary care, education and research, and health policy makers will find this book essential among resources to improve care for the chronically ill.

Chronic Disease Management in Primary Care

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Edited By Gill Wakley And Ruth Chambers.

Pages: 263 Size: 1.6 MB Format: PDF Publisher: CRC Press Inc – M.U.A.
Published: 12 July, 2016
eISBN-13: 9781138030459

Domiciliary care is a sensitive and complex subject. Can I obtain suitable care workers? Which organisations can I call on for support? What are the obligations placed on homeowners? If a relative wishes to remain at home do you know what to do? These are questions often asked by health professionals social workers and service users. This book answers such questions gives choices and shows how to implement decisions. It is essential reading for the new primary care organisations community practitioners primary healthcare teams practitioners in palliative care and geriatrics charities and volunteer groups.

Caring for Children with Special Healthcare Needs and Their Families: A handbook for healthcare professionals

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Editor, Linda L. Eddy.

Pages: 270 Size: 5.01 MB Format: PDF Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 23 January, 2013
eISBN-13: 9781118517963

Caring for Children with Special Healthcare Needs and Their Families: A Handbook for Healthcare Professionals provides a guide for addressing the challenges of providing optimal general and routine care for the special needs population. More than just caring for the patients, the text stresses the importance of caring for their families as well. The book begins with chapters on common aspects of this population, including physical or sensory disabilities and developmental and learning disabilities. Subsequent chapters expound on more specific topics related to communication, mobility, emotional issues, quality of life, and end-of-life.Caring for Children with Special Healthcare Needs and Their Families is a must-have book for family and pediatric nurse practitioners, registered nurses, healthcare technicians, physician assistants and social services professionals who see these patients regularly as part of their daily patient load.