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| Risk and older people | | Author(s) | Bob Hudson |
| Journal title | Community Care, issue 1686, 16 August 2007 |
| Pages | pp 28-30 |
| Source | http://www.communitycare.co.uk |
| Keywords | Hazards ; At risk ; Management [care] ; Literature reviews. |
| Annotation | Two studies are examined that find social care professionals assess risk for older people on the basis of experience rather than evidence or theory. The first, 'Risk management in health and social services for professional decision making on the long term care of older people' by Brian Taylor of the University of Ulster, is in British Journal of Social Work, 36, 2006 (www.bjsw.oxfordjournals.org). He identifies six frameworks (or "paradigms") used by health and social services staff. These are: identifying and meeting needs; minimising situational hazards; balancing benefits and harms; accounting for resources and priorities; and wariness of lurking conflicts. The second, 'Standing secure amidst a failing world? Practitioner understandings of old age in responses to a case vignette', is by Sally Richards and colleagues at the University of Reading and St Georges Hospital Medical School, is in the Journal of Interprofessional Care (vol 21, no 3, 2007) (www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/13561829.asp). While the two articles indicate similar conclusions, Richards and colleagues look more at theory and evidence. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-070821203 A |
| Classmark | OK7: CA3: QA: 64A |
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