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The welfare implications of disability for older people in Ireland
Cullinan, John; Gannon, Brenda; Eamon O’Shea - In: The European Journal of Health Economics 14 (2013) 2, pp. 171-183
Recent data analysed for Ireland suggest a strong link between disability status and household poverty, while there …, this paper estimates the welfare implications of disability for older people in Ireland. We define and estimate models of … the private costs borne by households with older persons who have a disability in Ireland, both in general and by severity …
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Entrepreneurship and social and community care
Sundin, Elisabeth - In: Journal of Enterprising Communities: People and Places … 5 (2011) April, pp. 212-222
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to show that not only (obviously) social enterprises but also conventional ones are based on social intentions and that these social intentions often have community dimensions. The conclusion of these findings is that conventional research, and...
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Making space for belonging: Critical reflections on the implementation of personalised adult social care under the veil of meaningful inclusion
Power, Andrew - In: Social Science & Medicine 88 (2013) C, pp. 68-75
disability policy goal, as it has evolved in two discrete settings – British Columbia, Canada and Ireland. The findings identify …
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Steering Towards Happiness in The Netherlands
Boelhouwer, Jeroen; Campen, Cretien - In: Social Indicators Research 114 (2013) 1, pp. 59-72
As in many other countries, the economic crisis is being felt in the Netherlands. Is that a good moment for a government to develop a policy to increase happiness? Is it actually possible to raise the level of happiness in the Netherlands? The Dutch are after all already happy, and the objective...
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Transfer from a home and community-based long-term care program to a nursing home: the Ohio experience
Kim, Yushim; Kim, Sunny; Kim, HeeSoo - In: International Journal of Public Policy 5 (2010) 2/3, pp. 160-174
Home and community-based care programs have been growing due to the preferences of elderly clients to remain in their homes. This study examines factors associated with the transfer of the elderly from a home or community-based long-term care program to a nursing home. Data were collected from...
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Seeking fluid possibility and solid ground: Space and movement in mental health service users' experiences of ‘crisis’
McGrath, Laura; Reavey, Paula - In: Social Science & Medicine 128 (2015) C, pp. 115-125
Since the closure of the UK asylums, ‘the community’ has become short hand for describing a variety of disparate and complex spaces, in which service users manage their experiences of distress. An examination of such spaces here forms the basis of an analysis of the way in which service...
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Rural Psychiatry: Special Issues and Models of Service Delivery
Judd, Fiona; Fraser, Caitlin; Grigg, Margaret; … - In: Disease Management and Health Outcomes 10 (2002) 12, pp. 771-781
The commonly occurring psychiatric disorders, anxiety and depression, have a combined community prevalence rate of 15-30% and are associated with significant clinical and economic cost. Although a number of effective pharmacological and psychological treatments are available for the management...
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Power, Professionalism and Organisational Transformation
May, Christopher; Buck, Mary Eleanor - In: Sociological Research Online 3 (1998) 2, pp. 5-5
Utilising data drawn from a study of a social service organisation, this article aims to understand the relationship between the rationale of organisational transformations and the professional status of social workers. It contains an examination of the original aims of Community Care...
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Community Mental Health Services for Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities: Issues and Approaches to Optimizing Outcomes
Hassiotis, Angela - In: Disease Management and Health Outcomes 10 (2002) 7, pp. 409-417
This article describes the issues associated with the development of services for people with intellectual disabilities (ID) and mental disorders [including challenging behavior (CB)] and reviews the evidence for providing effective community mental health services. Despite the fact that...
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Street outreach workers' understanding and experience of working with chronically homeless populations
Lee, Wonhyung; Donaldson, Linda Plitt - In: Journal of poverty : innovations on social, political & … 22 (2018) 4/6, pp. 421-436
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