SUPPORTING OLDER FAMILIES: MAKING A REAL DIFFERENCE

Dalia Magrill, The Foundation for People with Learning Disabilities

ISBN 190364562X, Download from www.learningdisabilities.org.uk

STAR RATING 4/5

There is an urgent message in this book for people who work with older families of people with learning difficulties. The time to act is now - the time to plan is now, writes Matt Dore.

Social work teams, health professionals and the voluntary sector need to join together to provide a quality service, where resources are shared.

The book is aimed at challenging where services are at the moment in order to bring about cohesion. The style is easy to read, with key points at the beginning of each chapter. The appendix enables you to measure how well your service is doing. It offers good practical advice and signposts the reader to various projects where good partnerships have been forged and to schemes that have started to work actively with older families.

Magrill draws from several discipline to encourage real partnership building. Good examples from individual people and pioneering services demonstrate the author's inclusive approach in researching and writing this book. There are snippets from real-life experiences which, on the one hand, shock, and on the other, encourage the reader to really make a difference.