Care Matters : Concepts, Practice and Research in Health and Social Care

by Ann Brechin

• ISBN13: 9780761955665
• ISBN10: 0761955666
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-02-08
• Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd

Summary

How can we make sense of the varying concepts of care and of the many forms care takes in practice? How can 'good' care be defined and evaluated?This book draws upon a range of academic disciplines including sociology, social policy, psychology, history, geography, social work and nursing to address these questions. The authors consider whether shared meanings in the concept of care can still be found across differences of: family and paid care; health and social care; perspectives 'carer' and 'cared for'; and the experiences of different 'client' groups. Commonalities are identified in the form of concerns about personal empowerment, about choice and self-esteem and about the balance needed between independence, interdep

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	viii
Contributors	ix
Poem: `Convalescence'	xii
Introduction	1	(1)
Ann Brechin
Care and humanity	1	(3)
Multiple perspectives	4	(3)
Exploring care	7	(3)
From perspectives to principles	10	(1)
References	11	(2)
Living in Residential Care	13	(14)
Dorothy Atkinson
What is residential care?	14	(3)
Finding out about the quality of care	17	(3)
Experiencing the residential `climate'	20	(2)
What is it like to live in a residential home?	22	(2)
Conclusion	24	(1)
Acknowledgements	25	(1)
References	25	(2)
Discovering the Present in Stories About the Past	27	(15)
John Adams
Joanna Bornat
Mary Prickett
Reminiscence: the background	28	(1)
The project	29	(2)
Revisiting the transcripts	31	(7)
Conclusions	38	(1)
References	39	(3)
Terminal Care or Terminal Carelessness	42	(12)
Jeanne Katz
The medicalisation of death	43	(2)
Palliative and terminal care	45	(1)
Who do hospices care for?	46	(1)
Philosophy and practice: new ways of thinking	47	(4)
Conclusion	51	(1)
References	52	(2)
Young Carers	54	(12)
Stan Tucker
Penny Liddiard
A different story?	54	(1)
Who cares?	55	(2)
Background to the research	57	(1)
The old new problem of identification	58	(1)
Key findings from the research	59	(4)
Public recognition of the needs of young carers	63	(1)
References	64	(2)
Care, Support, or Something Else?	66	(15)
Jill Reynolds
Jan Walmsley
Is it care that's needed?	67	(2)
What role for families?	69	(4)
Promoting control and autonomy	73	(5)
Conclusion	78	(1)
References	78	(3)
Normality and Disabling Care	81	(15)
John Swain
Sally French
In the name of care	81	(2)
Foundations of oppressive care	83	(2)
Measuring up to normality	85	(2)
To be or not to be normal	87	(3)
Human relations of oppressive care	90	(2)
To recognise and celebrate difference	92	(1)
The ideology of normality and disabling care	93	(1)
References	94	(2)
Treatment or Tender Loving Care	96	(11)
Moyra Sidell
Treating chronic illness: the response of orthodox medicine	96	(2)
Living with a chronic illness: Elsie Durant's experience	98	(2)
Competing paradigms: rethinking chronic illness	100	(1)
A holistic approach: a role for complementary therapies?	101	(1)
Competing frameworks of care	102	(3)
Conclusion	105	(1)
References	106	(1)
Caring in Place	107	(19)
Sheila M. Peace
Domestic settings as care environments	109	(5)
Non-domestic settings as care environments	114	(1)
Changes in ownership, changes in environment?	115	(5)
Conclusions	120	(2)
Notes	122	(1)
References	122	(4)
Caregiving, Carework and Professional Care	126	(13)
Celia Davies
Professional care -- nurses' voices	127	(3)
Caregiving and carework	130	(1)
Gender, rationality and caring	131	(4)
Care in context	135	(3)
References	138	(1)
The Emergence of Care as a Policy	139	(15)
Julia Johnson
Children and care	140	(4)
Adults requiring care	144	(4)
The emergence of `carers'	148	(2)
Dependence and independence	150	(1)
Conclusions	151	(1)
References	152	(2)
Changing Health Care	154	(16)
Linda J. Jones
The `welfare' paradigm	155	(1)
The challenge to the `welfare' paradigm	156	(2)
The shift to a `market' paradigm	158	(4)
Evaluating `market' principles	162	(4)
Conclusion -- beyond the market paradigm	166	(2)
References	168	(2)
What Makes for Good Care?	170	(19)
Ann Brechin
Forms and functions of care	171	(4)
Defining and evaluating `good care'	175	(2)
Care as a process and relationship	177	(1)
Dimensions of good and bad care: a simple model	178	(4)
Psychological factors and quality of care	182	(2)
Conclusion	184	(1)
References	185	(4)
Index	189