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A new conception of social care outcomes and its practical use in assessment with older people
Author(s)	Hazel Qureshi, Elinor Nicholas
Corporate Author	Social Policy Research Unit - SPRU, University of York
Journal title	Research Policy and Planning, vol 19, no 2, 2001
Pages	pp 11-26
Keywords	Community care ; Consumer ; Informal care ; Needs [elderly] ; Social work ; Evaluation ; Research Reviews.
Annotation	In the 1998 White Paper, "Modernising social services" (Cm 4169), the Government saw a focus on outcomes as central to its concerns. This paper interprets "outcome" as the impact or effect on the lives of service users or carers, It tackles two issues: exploring stakeholder perspectives on the meaning of social care outcomes for older people; and translating the findings of this research into tools for practice. It outlines a conception of outcomes derived from extensive exploratory research with service users, carers, social care staff and managers. The outcomes framework resulting from the consultations gave prominence to the idea of "maintenance" of quality of life. The authors describe the process and results of collaborative attempts to adapt and use the research findings to develop tools to support care managers in identifying intended outcomes at the point of assessment. (RH).
Accession Number	CPA-020219202 A
Classmark	PA: WY: P6: IK: IG: 4C: 3A:6KC
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