Day Services for Adults

ISBN-13: 9781032045412 / Miękka / 2023 / 402 str.

Jan Carter

Opis

First published in 1981, this book describes day services for adults, a relatively recent development in health and social services at the time. It makes clear that a growing number of services exist by day for adults, and in a diversity and variety which have big potential both for those who use them and for those who work in them.

Spis treści

Foreword.  Prologue.  Introduction.  Author’s Notes.  Acknowledgements.  Permissions.  Members of the National Day Service Project Advisory Committee.  Part 1  1. Introducing Adult Day Services  2. The Context  3. The Anatomy of Day Services: The Elderly; The Mentally Handicapped; The Physically Handicapped; The Mentally Ill; The Elderly Confused; The Family; The Offenders; The Mixed Centres  Part 2  4. Aims of Staff  5. ‘Meeting Other People, Having Cups of Tea’: Practical Services  6. ‘Bringing People Forward’: Aiming at Training  7. ‘Preventing Institutionalism’: Keeping Users Out of Hospital  8. ‘Back to Life’: Aiming at Clinical Assessment and Treatment  9. ‘A Normal Life’: Aiming at Rehabilitation  10. ‘I’m Just a Nuisance’: Aiming to Relieve Relatives  11. ‘A Useful Life’: Offering Practical Services for Therapeutic Improvement  12. ‘Pushing for Production’: Aiming at Industrial Production  13. ‘We All Help Each Other’: Aiming at Therapeutic Settings  14. ‘Listening to Users’: Aiming at Relationships  15. ‘Life in a Home’: Preparing Users for Institutions  Part 3  16. Questions of Satisfaction  17. Room for Improvement  18. Getting it Together  Part 4  Appendix I: Method and Procedures.  Appendix II: Tables.  Glossary.  Index.

O autorze

Jan Carter