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  • Reviewing IMCAs

    Yesterday the First Annual Report of the Independent Mental Capacity Advocate (IMCA)  was published. I have had some experiences of using IMCAs over the last 18 months but with increasing frequency and it’s probably the same for most of my colleagues within the service I currently work in...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-25-2008

  • 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 unwell quite suddenly which led to an intentional...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-23-2008

  • Getting to know you

    Often, in the course of assessments, discussions, anything really, I try to use a conversational approach with the people that I work with - a part of building a therapeutic relationship - especially if there has been a lack of acceptance of assistance. And it isn’t false either. I’m generally...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-22-2008

  • Ageism and Justice

    Community Care reports on a proposal by the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) to recommend more severe sentences to those who commit crimes against older people The policy is the last to be published on six “equality strands” and brings victimisation due to ageism in line with crimes driven by racism,...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-19-2008

  • 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 phoned the [...]
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-18-2008

  • Motivation and reflection

    Getting satisfaction from a job is an important factor of any career decision and ‘wanting to help people’ is an oft-quoted reason for wishing to enter the general ’social care’ arena. All good things - but this isn’t altruism. Not as far as I’m concerned. I am being...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-17-2008

  • Normality?

    The question of ‘normality’ and what it is  has cropped up again in relation to this weekend’s Bonkerfest. I read about it in The Times at the weekend in an article which explains the ‘Mad Pride’ movement which has made its way over here, unsurprisingly, from the States...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-15-2008

  • Striking Decisions

    UNISON have called a strike of local government employees for the 16th and 17th July. I’m a member of UNISON. So I strike. It should all be so simple. In reality I am in two minds and I haven’t decided - or rather, our team haven’t made a united decision yet. In the whole team, there...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-14-2008

  • Bringing work home

    Earlier this week, during one of our monthly meetings that include all the teams that work in our office (there are four sub-teams that cover the borough), we discussed Lone Working Policies. Nothing particularly exciting - they are formulating some new policies around staff safety. Just as I was dozing...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-12-2008

  • 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 I arrange a time to visit?’ telephone calls...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-11-2008
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