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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: social care, social work, social issues, older people, dementia, work, carers, mental health, local authority, old age, politics, elderly, london, health, carer, direct payments, personalisation, respite care, family, Disability, caregiver, personal, personal care, personal budget, individual budget, sds, self-directed support, budget, evil tories, cuts
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: social care, social work, social issues, work, politics, uk, local government, family, adoption, Child, personal, fostering, Foster care, Tim Loughton, adoption agencies, national adoption week, privatisation of care services, use of agencies in adoption and fostering
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: social care, social work, social issues, family, adoption, Child, personal, United States, international adoption, adopting from russia, Russia, Artyom Savelyev
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: residential care, social care, social work, social issues, older people, dementia, work, mental health, capacity, MCA, mental capacity, local authority, old age, elderly, long-term care, health, carer, family, domestic violence, personal, Abuse, power, domestic abuse
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: social care, social work, social issues, older people, work, local authority, old age, elderly, uk, family, Meals on Wheels, hot food delivery, Food, rhona johnson, Meal Delivery, frozen meals, frozen meals on wheels, elder services
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: social care, social work, older people, dementia, work, carers, old age, elderly, health, carer, respite care, Home Care, family, caregiver, Death, pets, Coroner, animal warden, after a death
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: social care, social work, social issues, older people, dementia, work, carers, socialcare, old age, elderly, health, carer, family, caregiver, Death, grief, mourning, Grief Loss and Bereavement
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: social work, older people, work, old age, elderly, family, loneliness, personal, Holidays, Christmas, Holidays and Special Days, alone for christmas, alone, 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: social care, social work, older people, dementia, work, mental health, local authority, old age, elderly, long-term care, housing, health, mental health act, sectioning, family, nursing home, AMHP, section 2 mha
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: social care, social work, older people, work, nursing, local authority, old age, elderly, long-term care, health, hospital, psychiatric hospital, family, nursing home, house, Marriage, residential placement
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: social work, older people, work, elderly, family, present, gift
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: 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...

Published 1 Jul 2008 5:27 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

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