Reviews: Social Care Practice in Ireland: An Integrated Perspective Celesta McCann James, Áine de Róiste and John McHugh

2010 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 147-149
Author(s):  
Ann Lavan
Keyword(s):  
Social Care ◽  
Care Practice

scholarly journals Refugee-like migrants have similar health needs to refugees: a New Zealand post-settlement cohort study

BJGP Open ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. bjgpopen20X101013
Author(s):  
Jonathan Donald Kennedy ◽  
Serena Moran ◽  
Sue Garrett ◽  
James Stanley ◽  
Jenny Visser ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Primary Care ◽  
Cohort Study ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Primary Care Practice ◽  
Social Care ◽  
Hospital Admissions ◽  
Outpatient Service ◽  
Care Practice ◽  
Care Needs ◽  
Health And Social Care

BackgroundRefugees and asylum seekers have specific health and social care needs on arrival in a resettlement country. A third group — migrants with a refugee-like background (refugee-like migrants) — are less well defined or understood.AimUsing routinely collected data, this study compared demographics, interpreter need, and healthcare utilisation for cohorts of refugee-like migrants and refugees.Design & settingA retrospective cohort study was undertaken in Wellington, New Zealand.MethodData were obtained for refugee-like migrants and refugees accepted under the national quota system (quota refugees), who enrolled in a New Zealand primary care practice between 2011 and 2015. Data from the primary care practice and nationally held hospital and outpatient service databases, were analysed. Age and sex standardisation adjusted for possible differences in cohort demographic profiles.ResultsThe cohorts were similar in age, sex, deprivation, and interpreter need. Refugee-like migrants were found to have similar, but not identical, health and social care utilisation to quota refugees. Primary care nurse utilisation was higher for refugee-like migrants. Clinical entries in the primary care patient record were similar in rate for the cohorts. Emergency department utilisation and hospital admissions were similar. Hospital outpatient utilisation was lower for refugee-like migrants.ConclusionThis research suggests that health, social care, and other resettlement services should be aligned for refugee-like migrants and quota refugees. This would mean that countries accepting quota refugees should plan for health and social care needs of subsequent refugee-like migrant family migration. Further research should investigate matched larger-scale national health and immigration datasets, and qualitatively explore factors influencing health-seeking behaviour of refugee-like migrants.

Supporting people with dementia during the COVID-19 pandemic

2021 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 65-68
Author(s):  
Linda Nazarko
Keyword(s):  
Primary Care Practice ◽  
Social Care ◽  
Practice Nurse ◽  
Informal Support ◽  
Care Practice ◽  
Physical And Mental Health ◽  
Practice Nurses ◽  
People With Dementia ◽  
Care Workers ◽  
Health And Social Care

People with dementia have experienced great disruption to their lives due to the pandemic. Linda Nazarko highlights the way individuals have been affected and how the practice nurse can support them People with dementia and their caregivers have been severely affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Isolation, a reduction in formal and informal support, and disruption to routine have contributed to feelings of loneliness and anxiety in people with dementia and their caregivers. The pandemic has led to staff shortages in health and social care, changes of care workers and a reduction in the level of support provided. These changes have affected the physical and mental health of people with dementia and increased their reliance on primary care. Practice nurses have a key role to play in supporting affected individuals.

Humanising health and social care support for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities: Protocol for a scoping review (Preprint)

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Madison Milne-Ives ◽  
Rohit Shankar ◽  
Daniel Goodley ◽  
Kristen Lamb ◽  
Richard Laugharne ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Developmental Disabilities ◽  
Scoping Review ◽  
Social Care ◽  
Care Practice ◽  
Intellectual And Developmental Disabilities ◽  
Eligibility Criteria ◽  
Health And Social Care ◽  
Scoping Reviews ◽  
Care Practices ◽  
Improve Health

BACKGROUND Healthcare is shifting towards a more person-centred model, however, people with intellectual and developmental disabilities can still experience difficulties in accessing equitable healthcare. Given these difficulties, it is important to consider how principles such as empathy and respect can be best incorporated into health and social care practices for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, to ensure they are receiving humanising and equitable treatment and support. OBJECTIVE The purpose of this scoping review is to provide an overview of the current research landscape and knowledge gaps regarding the development and implementation of interventions based on humanising principles that aim to improve health and social care practices for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. METHODS The Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses extension for Scoping Reviews (PRISMA-ScR) and Population, Intervention, Comparator, Outcome, and Study (PICOS) frameworks will be used to structure the review. Six databases (PubMed, MEDLINE, Embase, CINAHL, PsycInfo, and Web of Science) will be searched for articles published in English in the previous 10 years that describe or evaluate health and social care practice interventions under-pinned by humanising principles of empathy, compassion, dignity, and respect. Two reviewers will collaboratively screen and select references based on the eligibility criteria and extract the data into a predetermined form. A descriptive analysis will be conducted to summarise the results and provide an overview of interventions in three main care areas: health care, social care, and informal social support. RESULTS Results will be included in the scoping review, which will be submitted for publication by December 2021. CONCLUSIONS This scoping review will summarize the state of the field of interventions that are using humanising principles to improve health and social care for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

Social Work and Social Care Practice

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian O'Conner ◽  
Mark Hughes ◽  
Danielle Turney ◽  
Jill Wilson ◽  
Deborah Setterlund
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Social Care ◽  
Care Practice

Social Care Practice in Context

2011 ◽  
Vol 30 (5) ◽  
pp. 586-587
Author(s):  
Julie Wright
Keyword(s):  
Social Care ◽  
Care Practice

Planning and implementing group supervision: a case study from homeless social care practice

2018 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 281-295 ◽  
Author(s):  
Áine McLaughlin ◽  
Briege Casey ◽  
Aisling McMahon
Keyword(s):  
Social Care ◽  
Group Supervision ◽  
Care Practice

Learning together to be ourselves: a collaborative portrait of affect in relation

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 119-136
Author(s):  
Râna Campbell
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Collaborative Research ◽  
Social Care ◽  
Affect Theory ◽  
Care Practice ◽  
Collaborative Culture ◽  
Subject Formation ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Public Sphere

Þjóðmyndir was a collaborative photography project carried out by individuals frequenting two social service organisations that work in close partnership in Ísafjörður, Iceland, under the guidance of the author. It offered participants an opportunity to express themselves creatively in the public sphere and aimed to engage them in participative processes of learning, creating and reflecting to this end. The project struggled with the participatory and collaborative research traditions that informed it, yet it defined its own, unique collaborative culture around the social learning that emerged from the participants’ entering into relation with and emotionally affecting one another. Consequently, it succeeded at creating a space for the processes of subject formation inherent to discussions of both collaborative research and social-relational affect. This paper examines instances of affect and collaboration particular to the project through the lens of disability studies in order to advance an understanding of the intersectional relevance of affect theory and collaborative methodologies to social care practice.

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