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• Coincidence

  Earlier in the week, I popped in to see someone that I hadn’t seen for a couple of weeks. I had intended it to be a fairly quick visit. Things had been stable and I was in the area so just wanted to check and show my face - just in case. I’d... Posted Jul 18 2008, 04:17 AM by Fighting Monsters Filed under: social care, social work, older people, work, carers, elderly, carer, television, older person

• Data Entry

  All the work I do is recorded on databases. Every visit, form completed, review, assessment - even some telephone conversations (if they are over 10 minutes and can be deemed to have some kind of ‘therapeutic value’ - so not the ‘Can... Posted Jul 11 2008, 05:14 AM by Fighting Monsters Filed under: social work, work, carers, local authority, nhs, carer, local government, statutory social work, database

• Little Steps

  Yesterday, I had another run-in with the Housing Department but at least it was resolved. It tends to  happen every so often and its usually over the same issues. This time it was about access - which is probably the most common reason that we have... Posted Jul 08 2008, 04:39 AM by Fighting Monsters Filed under: social care, social work, older people, work, carers, socialcare, local authority, old age, elderly, housing, access, care

• Direct Payments - Chapter Two

  So, a week from the start of my journey into a Direct Payments referral and I have sent the appropriate forms, documents and paperwork to the appropriate people.  The figures are being checked and the amount that has been requested matched up against ... Posted Jul 03 2008, 05:34 AM by Fighting Monsters Filed under: social care, social work, older people, work, carers, socialcare, old age, elderly, uk, fair access to care, carer, direct payments, social services, family, opening direct payments bank accounts, personal assistants, gscc., carer direct payments

• Assumptions

  I work in the inner city and have since I did my first practice placement in the first year of my social work course almost 10 years ago now.  For as long as I have been working as a social worker , I have only ever worked in the inner city - different... Posted Jul 01 2008, 05:27 AM by Fighting Monsters Filed under: social care, social work, social issues, older people, dementia, work, carers, socialcare, mental health, old age, elderly, health, caregivers, carer, alzheimers, social services, United Kingdom, respite care, family, residential respite, assumptions, options for care, respite, domiciliary respite

• Direct Payments - Chapter One

  Direct Payments is the system of, basically, rather than giving a direct service, providing money to the user of the service to ‘buy’ the care that they need directly. ‘Direct Payments were introduced in the UK - for adults with a disability... Posted Jun 26 2008, 05:10 AM by Fighting Monsters Filed under: social care, social work, older people, work, carers, old age, uk, caregivers, carer, alzheimers, direct payments, care services, carers direct payments, carers assessment, choice

• Caring for Carers

  This week is Carers Week. There has been quite widespread coverage in the press - certainly from where I’m sitting anyway. Yesterday the government printed it 10 year Strategy for Carers. It has been widely reported that the main tenet of the strategy... Posted Jun 11 2008, 06:03 AM by Fighting Monsters Filed under: social care, social issues, older people, work, carers, socialcare, old age, benefits, politics, elderly, uk, health, caregivers, carer, rethink, respite care

• Help to care

  I first saw on the news over the weekend about the report produced by the Institute for Public Policy Research related to  Personalised Budgets for Carers and it baffled me a little bit. Don’t get me wrong, I completely think that carers need... Posted Jun 04 2008, 05:40 AM by Fighting Monsters Filed under: social care, social work, social issues, older people, work, carers, local authority, old age, benefits, long-term care, uk, caregivers, carer, institute for public policy research, carers allowance, direct payments, social services, personalised budget, adult care, direct payment

• Ageism - the ‘acceptable’ face of prejudice

  Social workers are supposed to be a liberal group. We are trained extensively in anti-discriminatory practice. I can’t imagine there are any social work courses in the country that don’t, at least explore, the implications of discrimination... Posted May 26 2008, 06:14 AM by Fighting Monsters Filed under: social care, social work, social issues, older people, work, carers, discrimination, ageism, old age, elders, rant, caregivers, prejudice, nhs

• The Cost of Caring

  The Guardian published an article this week about the germination of a New Deal for Carers and the results of the consultations that they ran over a period of a couple of months. I hadn’t known this had been going on so thought I’d look at... Posted May 10 2008, 11:13 AM by Fighting Monsters Filed under: social care, social work, carers, local authority, new deal for carers, government, benefits, reform

• Tragedy and Responsibility

  This tragic story about a man with learning disabilities and his mother who were both found dead left me with a couple of thoughts. Obviously it is an enormous tragedy and apart from speculation there are few facts available. My thought though was on... Posted Apr 25 2008, 07:17 AM by Fighting Monsters Filed under: social care, carers, learning disabilities