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Cuts – a personal tale

A couple of weeks ago, I had one of those deeply depressing moments that will generally punctuate a career in social care. I had to go and tell a woman, who cares for her mother with enormous patience and dignity, … Continue reading → Read...

Published 28 Jan 2011 6:56 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: budget, caregiver, carer, carers, cuts, dementia, direct payments, Disability, elderly, evil tories, family, health, individual budget, local authority, london, mental health, old age, older people, personal, personal budget, personal care, personalisation, politics, respite care, sds, self-directed support, social care, social issues, social work, work
Adoption, Agencies and Costs

This week is the so-called ‘National Adoption Week’ where press focus switches towards the promotion of adoption. It’s an area I don’t really have any experience of but there are a story milling around in the press gave me pause … Continue reading...

Published 2 Nov 2010 6:33 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: adoption, adoption agencies, Child, family, Foster care, fostering, local government, national adoption week, personal, politics, privatisation of care services, social care, social issues, social work, Tim Loughton, uk, use of agencies in adoption and fostering, work
A failed adoption

I was horrified when I saw this story on the news this morning. It involves a child aged seven who was adopted in the US from Russia and his adopted mother put him on a plane on his own back to Russia complaining that he was ‘mentally unstable’. Now Russia...

Published 10 Apr 2010 7:34 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: adopting from russia, adoption, Artyom Savelyev, Child, family, international adoption, personal, Russia, social care, social issues, social work, United States
Fallen Tyrant Syndrome

I have never seen it so clearly as in a particular situation I am working with at the moment. Mr G has a long history of domestic violence. His wife and his (now grown) children suffered for many many years. He also has dementia. He is now the ‘vulnerable...

Published 18 Jan 2010 6:47 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: Abuse, capacity, carer, dementia, domestic abuse, domestic violence, elderly, family, health, local authority, long-term care, MCA, mental capacity, mental health, old age, older people, personal, power, residential care, social care, social issues, social work, work
Meals on Wheels

We can’t escape the fact that we are growing older – it creeps up on us at first – it is easy to ignore – and then seems to gallop alongside us a while – keeping pace, seen only went sought and then, becoming ever more visible next to us and...

Published 26 May 2009 7:00 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: elder services, elderly, family, Food, frozen meals, frozen meals on wheels, hot food delivery, local authority, Meal Delivery, Meals on Wheels, old age, older people, rhona johnson, social care, social issues, social work, uk, work
Love and Death

At 8.58am yesterday I was just about arriving at work and Mr A’s death was certified. I didn’t know about it though. I didn’t know until about half an hour later because Mrs A’s carer had arrived at 8am that morning and had found Mrs A in a distressed...

Published 13 May 2009 6:58 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: after a death, animal warden, caregiver, carer, carers, Coroner, Death, dementia, elderly, family, health, Home Care, old age, older people, pets, respite care, social care, social work, work
Death

I have worked consistently in older adult’s services since I qualified. I’d say, at least until a few months ago anyway – when I seem to have accumulated a few people in their late 60s - that most of the people I see regularly are over 85. So it isn’t...

Published 2 Apr 2009 7:10 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: caregiver, carer, carers, Death, dementia, elderly, family, grief, Grief Loss and Bereavement, health, mourning, old age, older people, social care, social issues, social work, socialcare, work
Alone for Christmas

I’m working this week. I usually do over the Christmas period. I am Jewish and I don’t have a young family (unless I count myself as young- which of course I do!) so am more than happy to concede to others for whom the time of the year is...

Published 22 Dec 2008 6:33 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: alone, alone for christmas, Christmas, elderly, family, Holidays, Holidays and Special Days, loneliness, old age, older people, personal, social work, work, working at christmas
Patching up

While not being extremely well experienced in making applications for people to be detained in psychiatric units, I’m certainly building up a fair amount of experience quickly. This week was the shortest assessment that I have been involved with...

Published 4 Dec 2008 6:38 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: AMHP, dementia, elderly, family, health, housing, local authority, long-term care, mental health, mental health act, nursing home, old age, older people, section 2 mha, sectioning, social care, social work, work
Finding places

I was on the ward yesterday, chatting to the wife of one of the patients with whom I am currently working. It’s a difficult point for her. Her husband, Mr P, has a fairly advanced dementia. He was admitted to hospital after displaying increasingly...

Published 23 Oct 2008 6:00 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: elderly, family, health, hospital, house, local authority, long-term care, Marriage, nursing, nursing home, old age, older people, psychiatric hospital, residential placement, social care, social work, work
Looking at gift horses

There’s one couple that I’ve been seeing quite a lot of over the past few weeks. He has dementia and his wife has depression. They have been co-dependent for many years - and probably would have continued to be until she became physically...

Published 23 Jul 2008 6:42 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: elderly, family, gift, older people, present, social work, work
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 ...

Published 3 Jul 2008 5:34 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: carer, carer direct payments, carers, direct payments, elderly, fair access to care, family, gscc., old age, older people, opening direct payments bank accounts, personal assistants, social care, social services, social work, socialcare, uk, work
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...

Published 1 Jul 2008 5:27 AM by Fighting Monsters

Filed under: alzheimers, assumptions, caregivers, carer, carers, dementia, domiciliary respite, elderly, family, health, mental health, old age, older people, options for care, residential respite, respite, respite care, social care, social issues, social services, social work, socialcare, United Kingdom, work

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