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Power to the people?
— involving users and carers in needs assessments and care planning - views from the practitioner | | Author(s) | Fiona Myers, Charlotte Macdonald |
| Journal title | Health & Social Care in the Community, vol 4, no 2, March 1996 |
| Pages | pp 86-95 |
| Keywords | Services ; Community care ; Needs [elderly] ; Participation ; Scotland. |
| Annotation | Drawing on interviews with social work practitioners, this article looks at the mechanisms used to involve users and carers in needs assessment and care planning, and examines some of the constraints to user involvement, including cultural difficulties; communication difficulties; disagreements between users and staff between users and carers and between carers and staff. |
| Accession Number | CPA-960226021 A |
| Classmark | I: PA: IK: TMB: 9A |
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