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  • Living in DoLs houses

    Just when I thought I was pretty hot on all the acronyms that are flung around the workplace, I have been hit with a few more. It came as a result of a conversation with one of the managers (there are whole swathes of different levels of managers in the local authority that become very [...]
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 05-16-2008

  • Afterthought

    I just read this story on the Times website about an elderly couple that were found dead following a visit from social services as they feared that they would be separated due to differing care needs. There isn’t really much that can be said, apart from feeling a genuine sadness that this has happened...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 05-15-2008

  • Creating home at home

    Yesterday, one of the plenary sessions I attended at Community Care Live was a discussion of an initiative by Help the Aged called My Home Life. As it says on the site, it is ‘a new initiative aimed at improving the quality of life of those who are living, dying, visiting and working in care homes...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 05-15-2008

  • The Right to (Free) State Care

    Brown announced that he was starting a six month consultation to make decisions about reforms to the ’social care’ system and in particular, its funding. The Wanless Social Care Review was produced back in 2006 and it examined ways of paying for long term care in the face of an aging population...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 05-13-2008

  • Compare and contrast

    This article from The Guardian’s website compares the use of medication for older people with the safeguards in place when prescribing for children. It made a lot of sense to me. It is a part of the sensation that ageism permeates much of society and it is difficult to shake off and to rationalise...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 05-08-2008

  • Using IMCAs

    I was surprised when I spoke with colleagues who were working in a local CMHT, that few of them were aware of the IMCA (Independent Mental Capacity Advocate) service and none had used them. I have used IMCAs a few times over the last 8 months or so and generally found the process to be very [...]
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 05-03-2008

  • No place like home

    I saw on the BBC yesterday that a man died in an EMI/Dementia registered nursing home in Hertfordshire. It was only a passing reference on the news but I thought I’d check the CSCI report of the home in question. This is a quote taken from the CSCI unannounced inspection back in October of the...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 05-01-2008

  • Money matters

    New technology is a wonderful thing. Most of the time. Chip and pin? A fantastic way to improve security for bank cards and accounts. Giros always went missing anyway, much better the ‘direct payment’ with benefits going straight into bank accounts and providing basic bank accounts to ensure...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 04-29-2008

  • Who is watching?

    I see that the Alzheimer’s Society having published a book called ‘Enabling’ which provides models for observation in residential care facilities in order to improve care, as there was an article about it in Care and Health. I think it raises an important point about the need for something...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 04-29-2008

  • Post office closures bring out the fighting spirit

    by Amy Taylor. While the battle for the mayor of london crown has dominated the media, next Tuesday (May the 1st) also sees local elections taking place in many councils in England. The 2, 500 post offices earmarked for closure will be looming on many voters' minds. Compared to the 70s protests are...
    Posted to The Social Work Blog (Weblog) by Anonymous on 04-25-2008
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