Working with Older People and Their Families : Key Issues in Policy and Practice

by Nolan, Mike; Davies, Sue; Grant, Gordon

• ISBN13: 9780335205608
• ISBN10: 0335205607
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-02-01
• Publisher: Open University Press

Summary

Addressing the needs of older people and their carers is an essential element of both policy and practice in the fields of health and social care. Recent developments promote a partnership and empowerment model, in which the notion of 'person-centred' care figures prominently. However, what 'person-centred' care means and how it can be achieved is far from clear.Working with Older People and their Families combines extensive reviews of specialist literatures with new empirical data in an attempt at a synthesis of themes about making a reality of 'person-centred' care. Uniquely, it seeks to unite the perspectives of older people, family and professional carers in promoting a genuinely holistic approach to the challenges of an ageing society.Working with Older People and their Families is recommended reading for students on health related courses such as nursing, medicine and the therapies. It is also of relevance to students of social work and social gerontology, researchers, managers and policy makers.

Author Biography

Mike Nolan is Professor of Gerontological Nursing at the University of Sheffield. He has long-standing interests in the needs of family carers and of vulnerable older people in a range of care environments, and has published extensively in these areas.

Sue Davies is a Lecturer in the Department of Gerontological and Continuing Care Nursing at the University of Sheffield. She has particular interests in the needs of older people and their carers in continuing care environments, and is currently completing her PhD in this area.

Gordon Grant holds a Research Chair in Cognitive Disability in the School of Nursing and Midwifery, University of Sheffield and Doncaster and South Humber Healthcare NHS Trust. His main research and development interests concern family caregiving of vulnerable groups, the support needs of people with severe and complex learning disabilities, and the evaluation of health and social care interventions. He has published widely in these fields.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	ix
Notes on Contributors	x
Foreword	xii
Professor Ron De Witt
Professor Jeff Thompson
Introduction: the changing face of health and social care	1	(3)
Mike Nolan
Sue Davies
Gordon Grant
Quality of life, quality of care	4	(15)
Mike Nolan
Sue Davies
Gordon Grant
Who's the expert? Redefining lay and Professional relationships	19	(14)
Jayne Brown
Mike Nolan
Sue Davies
Acute and rehabilitative care for older people	33	(20)
Mike Nolan
Community care	53	(22)
Janet Nolan
The care needs of older people and family caregivers in continuing care settings	75	(24)
Sue Davies
Palliative care and older people	99	(21)
Jane E. Seymour
Elizabeth Hanson
The Mental health needs of older people and their carers: exploring tensions and new directions	120	(19)
Claire Ferguson
John Keady
Older People with learning disabilities: health, community inclusion and family caregiving	139	(21)
Gordon Grant
Integrating perspectives	160	(19)
Mike Nolan
Sue Davies
Gordon Grant
Appendix: Study methodology	179	(4)
Bibliography	183	(41)
Index	224