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Impacts on practitioners of using research-based carer assessment tools
— experiences from the UK, Canada and Sweden, with insights from Australia | | Author(s) | Nancy Guberman, Elinor Nicholas, Mike Nolan |
| Journal title | Health & Social Care in the Community, vol 11, no 4, July 2003 |
| Pages | pp 345-355 |
| Keywords | Informal care ; Needs [elderly] ; Evaluation ; General practitioners ; United Kingdom ; Canada ; Sweden ; Australia. |
| Annotation | Researchers and practitioners in several Western countries have recently developed tools for assessing the situation of the carers of older, sick or disabled adults. This article describes the impact of three such assessment tools from Canada, the UK and Sweden on assessors' professional practice. An Australian researcher and case manager comments on these experiences from her unique perspective. Results reveal that the use of carer assessments can lead to changes in the appropriateness of intervention by informing practitioners of issues which are given little attention, but which impact on the adequacy of interventions to the service user. Giving carers a legitimate voice, acknowledging their perspective and expertise, and making them central to assessment processes accords them status both as active partners, and as individuals with their own needs and aspirations, rather than seeing them primarily as resources. As a result of their experiences, many workers and administrators concluded that home care programmes must change their mandate to include carers among their clients, raising issues of monetary and human resources to meet the needs of this group. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-030703204 A |
| Classmark | P6: IK: 4C: QT6: 8: 7S: 76P: 7YA |
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