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  • The QCS Pool Activity Level (PAL) Instrument for Occupational Profiling

    A Practical Resource for Carers of People with Cognitive Impairment Fifth Edition

    by Jackie Pool, Lesley Collier, Professor Martin Orrell, Jennifer Wenborn, David Challis, Sarah Mould ...
    Series series University of Bradford Dementia Good Practice Guides
    The QCS Pool Activity Level (PAL) Instrument is widely used as the framework for providing activity-based care for people with cognitive impairments, including dementia. The Instrument was recommended for daily living skills training and activity planning in the National Institute for Clinical Excellence Clinical Guidelines for Dementia (NICE 2006). It is an essential resource for any practitioner ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • Long-Term Care: Matching Resources and Needs

    by David Challis ...
    Improving equity and efficiency in the long-term care of older people is an international concern, with governments attempting to ensure that policies and practice develop so that resources are used to best effect. This requires good quality evidence founded on sound theory. This volume honours the outstanding contribution of Bleddyn Davies to this field, bringing together perspectives of scholars ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Towards Quality Care

    Outcomes for Older People in Care Homes

    by Caroline Mozley, Caroline Sutcliffe, Heather Bagley, Lis Cordingley, David Challis, Peter Huxley, Alistair Burns ...
    This unique evaluation of the outcomes of residential and nursing home care for older people identifies the factors determining the quality of life of older people who have moved into care homes. It examines the relationship between older people's psychological well-being and the kinds of care received in residential homes. The volume draws on a study of UK care homes, interviewing new entrants ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Supporting People with Dementia at Home

    Challenges and Opportunities for the 21st Century

    by David Challis, Caroline Sutcliffe, Jane Hughes, Richard von Abendorff, Pamela Brown, John Chesterman ...
    Supporting People with Dementia at Home details a groundbreaking study of an intensive care management scheme designed for older people with dementia that are at risk of entry into residential care. The authors use a quasi-experimental approach to compare how the individuals on the mental health team in one community were matched to a similar community without the service. They analyze the ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Care Management in Social and Primary Health Care

    The Gateshead Community Care Scheme

    by David Challis, John Chesterman, Rosemary Luckett, Karen Stewart ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    This title was first published in 2003: This book provides an evaluation of the Gateshead Community Care Scheme which was devised as an alternative to residential and hospital care for frail elderly people. An important feature of the scheme was the decentralization of control of resources to individual social workers acting as care managers, with defined caseloads and expenditure limits to ensure ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Performance Indicators in Social Care for Older People

    by David Challis, Paul Clarkson ...
    Series series In Association with PSSRU (Personal Social Services Research Unit)
    The growing focus on performance review and monitoring means that awareness and use of performance indicators has increased throughout a number of public services. Set within a national context, this book reviews the historical development and measurement issues of performance indicators within social care and the public sector for older people. It then provides an approach to effective local ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Community Care, Secondary Health Care and Care Management

    Edited by David Challis, Robin Darton, Karen Stewart ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1998, creating a discourse on community care, differences in of care management; links between assessment, secondary health care and care management by addressing several areas which provide opportunities for successful service development. ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Matching Resources to Needs in Community Care

    An Evaluated Demonstration of a Long-Term Care Model

    by Bleddyn Davies, David Challis ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1986, Matching Resources to Needs describes the PSSRU’s community care approach and analyses the first of the community care projects, a seminal set of experiments in the care of the elderly at high risk of institutional long-term care. The experiments create field structures which provide incentives to improve efficiency, decentralised power over resources being balanced by ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

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    Towards Best Practice in Managing Risk in Mental Health Services

    Edited by Richard Whittington, Caroline Logan ...
    Self-Harm and Violence: Towards Best Practice in Managing Risk in Mental Health Services presents the first exploration of the most effective clinical practice techniques relating to the management of risk in mental health care settings.Based on the Department of Health’s Best Practice in Managing Risk guidance document, which was developed over a 12-month period in consultation with a national ... Read more

    $54.00 USD

  • Counselling in General Practice

    Edited by Roslyn Corney, Rachel Jenkins ...
    Many GPs now employ counsellors to help them with the psychological and emotional problems of their patients. The contributors to this book have wide experience of counsellor attachments and have been involved in developing and promoting GP counselling on a nation-wide scale. They explore the counsellor's role in general practice and investigate the issues involved, giving practical guidance which ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • Counselling and Psychotherapy in Organisational Settings

    Edited by Judith Moore, R.M. Roberts ...
    Series series Counselling and Psychotherapy Practice Series
    This book introduces some of the specific contexts in which today′s counsellors and psychotherapists find themselves working. It draws upon the experience of counsellors active in their field and uses relevant examples of the potential pitfalls and rewards of counselling in diverse institutional settings. Counsellors are introduced to the regulatory, legislative, economic, social and cultural ... Read more

    $65.69 USD

  • The Occupational Therapy Handbook: Practice Education

    by Polglase, Tracey Treseder, Rachel ...
    Written specifically for occupational therapy students, newly qualified occupational therapists and educators and is a useful reference guide for academic tutors. The Occupational Therapy Handbook reflects modern day occupational therapy practice and education. The editors have created a current user-friendly text book specifically in relation to Practice Education, particularly in light of the ... Read more

    $12.39 USD