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| Help in adversity | | Author(s) | Charles Patmore |
| Journal title | Community Care, issue 1403, 13 December 2001 |
| Pages | pp 40-41 |
| Keywords | Domiciliary services ; Community care ; Social Services Departments ; Social contacts ; Isolation ; Bradford. |
| Annotation | Home care is good at providing material support; but how can it be made to offer the kind of companionship and stimulation that isolated older people need? This article reports on in-depth interviews with 30 randomly selected home care clients in Bradford, half of whom lived in sheltered housing. It is based on the author's research in "Learning from older community care clients" (Social Policy Research Unit - SPRU, University of York, 2000). Of 12 areas of daily living investigated, interviewees were most dissatisfied with getting out of the house, social life, and sources of interest in everyday life. Indeed, good morale helped interviewees appreciate social services care more than those with low morale. Those who were most isolated indicated the sort of extra social contact they wanted: more contact with care staff, rather than company found at day centres. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-020109203 A |
| Classmark | N: PA: PF: TOA: TP: 88A * |
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