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  • A decent place to live

    I seem to have had something of a ‘home’ themed week in one way or the other, so thought I’d round it off with a few thoughts about more general housing. In one of the previous teams I worked in, we had a basic line that a lot of the situations and difficulties that were challenging...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 05-17-2008

  • 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

  • Live and Life

    Community Care Live starts today. I expect attend a few of the workshops and plenaries that will be taking place. I wonder what a collective noun for social workers would be. I can’t think of many things that would be printable (so to speak!) but whatever it is (a gaggle, a gossip, a [...]
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 05-14-2008

  • 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

  • Spend, spend, regret?

    The Independent writes about the link between bipolar disorder and overspending. It doesn’t really come as any surprise and seems logical that a link would be made. I remember a conversation I had with a patient who spoke in terms of genuine regret that her care coordinator at the time had completely...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 05-11-2008

  • 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

  • Shuffling the deck

    There is another reorganisation in progress at work. I’ve managed to put it to the back of my mind for as long as I’ve been concentrating on the ASW training but that doesn’t mean things have been standing still. I wonder if there is any theory of perpetual motion that relates to social...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 05-08-2008

  • Sport for all

    MENCAP reported yesterday that funding for learning disabled athletes is struggling following the ban on these athletes after some reported shifty behaviour regarding eligibility of some athletes who apparently faked having learning disabilities, in the Sydney Games of 2000. The British Paralympic Association...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 05-07-2008
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