Originally published in 1984 and concentrating on the West Midlands area of the UK, this book describes the innovations that were made and all that was involved in bringing about changes in care provision for elderly people. The areas covered include hospital-based geriatric and psychogeriatric services, changes in the public housing sector, the development of a domiciliary physiotherapy service and community nursing teams for the terminally ill. These new attitudes and practical treatment changes succeeded in radically altering the climate of care and were the result of small innovatory groups of care-providers.
Originally published in 1984 and concentrating on the West Midlands area of the UK, this book describes the innovations that were made and all that was involved in bringing about changes in care provision for elderly people.
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'... a useful addition to the bookshelf.' Ruth Manley, International Journal of Nursing Studies
1. The Nature of Innovation
2. Promoting Innovation A District Medical
Officers View
3. How Local Government Funds Innovations in Social Services
4. Early Intervention in a General Practice
5. Extended role of the Home Help
Service
6. High-Rise Sheltered Housing David
7. Domiciliary Physiotherapy for
the Elderly in South Birmingham
8. The Volunteer Stroke Scheme Eileen
Staunton
9. A Continence Advisory Service
10. Making a Geriatric Department
Effective
11. Hollymoor Psychogeriatric Service
12. A Day Centre for the
Elderly Mentally Infirm
13. Residential Home for the Elderly Mentally Inform
14. Domiciliary Care of the Terminally Ill
15. Education in Care of the
Elderly
16. The Societal Context of Innovation in Care of the Elderly .
Bernard Isaacs held the Charles Hayward Chair of Geriatric Medicine at the University of Birmingham, UK. Helen Evers was Senior Research Fellow at the University of Warwick, UK.
