Meeting the Health, Social Care and Welfare Services Information Needs of Older People

As Chairperson of the National Council on Ageing and Older People, it gives me great pleasure to introduce this report, Meeting the Health, Social Care and Welfare Services Information Needs of Older People in Ireland. The Council has asserted, in previous reports in the past, the need to improve information provision for older people in order to enable them to make informed decisions in relation to their health, social care and welfare services needs and preferences so that they can become partners in their own care. This is consistent with current policy initiatives intended to re-orientate services more towards the older person and to place him/her at the heart of service planning, delivery and evaluation. Download document here

Meeting the Health, Social Care and Welfare Services - Information Needs of Older People in Ireland: Conference Proceedings

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Old age in New York city; an analysis of some problems of the aged, based on 3,106 requests for information about health and welfare services,

"First printing."

Medical social work in tax-supported health and welfare services; a report of the Joint Committee of the American Association of Medical Social Workers and the American Public Welfare Association,

Mode of access: Internet.

Young people with learning disabilities who sexually abuse: understanding, identifying and responding from within generic education and welfare services

This chapter will start by providing an overview of current knowledge about young people with learning disabilities who sexually abuse. Research cited will, unless otherwise indicated, be limited to UK studies since international variations in the definitions of both learning disability and sexual abuse make the use of a wider literature base problematic – particularly that relating to prevalence and incidence. It will then go on to report key findings from a recent study (Fyson et al, 2003; Fyson, 2005) which examined how special schools and statutory child protection and youth offending services in four English local authorities responded to sexually inappropriate or abusive behaviours exhibited by young people with learning disabilities. It will conclude by highlighting areas of current practice which give cause for concern, and suggest some pointers for future best practice.

Skehill, Caroline: History of the Present of Child Protection and Welfare Social Work in Ireland

This unique book has at least three significant strengths. First, it offers an interesting angle on Irish social history and how social work and child protection and welfare services have been developed from the 1860s to the 1990s. Secondly, the author uses the 'history of the present' method of Michel Foucault in a promising manner, incorporating his concepts of archaeology, genealogy and discourse. Most of all she has succeeded in further developing Michel Foucault's concepts and strategies of writing. Although this is a national history, she has made a remarkable contribution to social work research. Her conceptual and methodological innovations are undoubtedly fully applicable to other social and societal contexts. This book is recommendable to those who want to implement genealogical analysis in their own research. Thirdly, her skill in writing and the way she renders the difficult language and concepts of Michel Foucault accessible means that here is a book that can also be read with ease by those whose mother tongue is not English. From the viewpoint of women and women's research the focus in this book is minor but if you are interested in social work history and genealogical analysis, this is a book you have to read!

Towards modern municipal sports and recreation management in Costa Rica

Sports and recreation management is addressed here using a model that combines the policies and methodologies applied in the Costa Rican context as a result of a concern to identify the real needs in the sports, recreation, and health promotion fields through the different manifestations of human movement.  This approach has been developed during eight years of work in the Costa Rican Sports and Recreation Institute (Instituto Costarricense del Deporte y la Recreación-ICODER) together with different Costa Rican communities, both rural and urban, and local organizations, such as Comprehensive Development Community Associations, Sports and Recreation Community Boards (CCDR), Municipal Mayorships, and NGOs, among others.  This article particularly takes into consideration the experience of the CCDRs as entities that have been given the responsibility by the Costa Rican Government to promote and manage municipal sports and recreation services with a convenient offering that would meet the needs of users or customers.  In this way, this article is aimed at answering the question on how Boards should conduct an efficient management in a way that they also meet the needs of public users or customers in the municipalities of the country, by proposing a management model that serves as an additional instrument to improving the already existing services managed by the aforementioned entities.  This study presents a model of Costa Rican management structured with the theoretical elements that currently define the organization and planning of sports and recreation as a service.

Saimaan korkeakoululiikunta - Palvelukonseptin suunnittelu, budjetointi ja toteuttaminen

Työn tavoitteena oli suunnitella korkeakoululiikunnan palvelukonsepti, jonka tärkein tehtävä on edistää korkeakoulukampuksen opiskelijoiden opiskelukykyä, hyvinvointia, terveyttä ja yhteisöllisyyttä monipuolisia liikunta- ja hyvinvonitipalveluja tuottamalla. Merkittävimmät tulokset empiriaosuudessa saatiin haastattelu- ja kyselytutkimuksilla, jotka toteutettiin korkeakoululiikuntakonseptin paikallisille käyttäjille ja kahden vertaisoppimispaikkakunnan korkeakoululiikunnan työntekijöille. Tämän aineiston ja jo olemassa olevien teoreettisten viitekehysten avulla pystyttiin suunnittelemaan paikallinen, käyttäjälähtöinen konsepti. Tutkimus sisälti myös erillisten teorioiden ja empiiristen havaintojen yhdistämistä. Työn tuloksena syntynyt palvelukonsepti toteutettiin soveltavalla tutkimuksella, missä yhdisteltiin erilaisia tutkimusmetodeja tavoitteena olleen lopputuloksen saamiseksi. Tuotoksena tässä tutkimuksessa saatiin rakennettua käyttäjälähtöinen ja monipuolinen korkeakoululiikuntakonsepti, jonka toiminta on suunniteltua ja ohjattua. Työssä esitellään myös toimenpide-ehdotukset, joilla suunniteltu liikunta- ja hyvinvointipalveluja sisältävä konsepti voidaan ottaa käyttöön.

Enabling Access to Welfare Services - the Place of Social Solidarity and Dialogue

The welfare state in the UK presents immigrant communities with a set of institutions, which are potentially new and unknown. What is the best way to ensure that the questions of access to the welfare institutions are best managed? Trusting, understanding and feeling solidarity with the welfare state will obviously help with this problem. In order to shed light on this phenomenon, this paper presents a qualitative exploratory study dealing with elements of solidarity as perceived by members of the South Asian Community in the UK. Six indepth interviews with South Asian first generation immigrants who had never experienced mental health problems were conducted. They were asked questions about who their support networks would be in the event of them experiencing mental health problems. The thematic analysis of the interviews suggests that the respondents believed that solidarity and support ties are found to be present in families, within the south Asian community and also with welfare institutions. It is concluded that there although things are far from perfect, assimilation and integration based on dialogue is an observable positive aspect of mental health service provision in the UK.

Migrant child welfare : a state of the field study of child welfare services for migrant children and their families who are in-stream, home based, or settled-out : executive summary /

"Performed under Contract No. HEW-105-76-1140."

Migrant child welfare : a state of the field study of child welfare services for migrant children and their families who are in-stream, home based, or settled-out : final report /

Performed under contract no. HEW-105-76-1140, National Center for Child Advocacy and prepared by members of InterAmerica Research Associates.

Controls over vocational rehabilitation training services need improvement, Rehabilitation Services Administration, Department of Health, Education and Welfare : report to the Congress /

Date on cover: May 5, 1977.

Life--in Long Beach, a survey of community welfare services and needs ...

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Unmarried mothers in Milwaukee County : characteristics and casework services to mothers and children, July 1, 1952-June 30, 1953 : cooperative study / by Community Welfare Council of Milwaukee County and Wisconsin Department of Public Welfare, Division for Children and Youth.

"July 15, 1954."