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A testing future for care services
— [future challenges for personalised care by social workers] | | Author(s) | Denise Platt |
| Journal title | Professional Social Work, November 2007 |
| Pages | pp 12-13 |
| Source | http://www.basw.co.uk |
| Keywords | Community care ; Needs [elderly] ; Management [care] ; Social workers. |
| Annotation | Dame Platt, as Chair of the Commission for Social Care Inspection (CSCI) sets out the challenges for social work of listening to service user needs and providing personalised care for individuals who rarely ever conform to any straightforward categorisation. It is opined that care plans are often predicated on people's circumstances not changing; but most people's lives do change on a daily basis, and so care services need to build in the ability to see "fluctuation and change as the norm." Personalised care plans will require adjustment by professional health and social care staff and in particular social workers, in order to work to fulfil the needs of today's older people and their families. (KJ/RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-071206217 A |
| Classmark | PA: IK: QA: QR |
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