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Part of their lives
— community care for older people with dementia | | Author(s) | Jo Moriarty, Sarah Webb |
| Publisher | Policy Press, Bristol, 2000 |
| Pages | 118 pp |
| Source | The Policy Press, University of Bristol, 34 Tyndall's Park Road, Bristol BS8 1PY. The Policy Press, University of Bristol, 34 Tyndall's Park Road, Bristol BS8 1PY. |
| Keywords | Dementia ; Family care ; Services ; Domiciliary services ; Community care ; Long term ; Usage [services] ; Attitude ; Social surveys ; United Kingdom. |
| Annotation | People with moderate and severe dementia are major users of both community and long-term care services provided by social services departments (SSDs), yet little is known about what services they use, for how long, and how well these services fit in with their preferences and those of their carers. This report combines a review of the existing literature with statistical analyses, case examples and the direct voice of carers and people with dementia providing information on the experiences of a group of people with dementia and their carers over an 18-month period. Information was collected through a series of interviews with assessors, carers, proxy informants, and people with dementia. Following the introductory chapter, chapter 2 explains the study design and methods; chapter 3 reports on sources of referral within the study's SSDs and describes the characteristics of the participants; chapter four investigates the assessment process, including user and carer experiences of assessment; chapter five highlights the role of carers of people with dementia; chapter six examines the range of community services that were used; chapter seven compares people who remained at home with those who entered long-term care. |
| Accession Number | CPA-000317401 B |
| Classmark | EA: P6:SJ: I: N: PA: 4Q: QLD: DP: 3F: 8 |
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