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Testing Twigg and Atkin's typology of caring — a study of primary care professionals' perceptions of dementia care using a modified focus group method
Author(s)	Jill Manthorpe, Steve Iliffe, Alison Eden
Journal title	Health & Social Care in the Community, vol 11, no 6, November 2003
Pages	pp 477-485
Keywords	Dementia ; Attitude ; General practitioners ; Family care ; Needs [elderly].
Annotation	Among the factors structuring negotiations around services, the attitudes of carers to their role were identified by Julia Twigg and Karl Atkin in their 1995 book, "Carers perceived: policy and procedure in informal care". The present article draws on professional perspectives derived from a series of 24 multidisciplinary workshops held in the UK, analysed using a typology developed by Twigg in 1989 (Models of carers: how do social care agencies conceptualise their relationships with informal carers?). The primary care workers' understanding of carers' needs and circumstances fitted best with Twigg's model of carers as resources and co-workers, but showed limited awareness of carers' responses and attitudes to caring. It is argued that professional assumptions about family members' roles when dementia is recently recognised in older people expand definitions of carers, but still confirm their instrumental role. (RH).
Accession Number	CPA-031107203 A
Classmark	EA: DP: QT6: P6:SJ: IK
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