Adult Social Care Workforce Analysis in England

2012 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 1-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephan Onggo
Keyword(s):  
System Dynamics ◽  
Social Care ◽  
Influential Factors ◽  
Direct Care ◽  
Formal Sector ◽  
Care Services ◽  
The Social ◽  
Micro Simulation ◽  
Dynamics Modelling ◽  
Care System

Changes in demographic and regulations in social care in England are expected to alter the social care landscape and increase pressure on people working in the adult social care sector, especially those who deliver direct care services. While significant work has been done to understand the demand side of the adult social care system, work on the supply side is considerably limited and analysis has been dominated by methods such as macro- and micro-simulation. This paper demonstrates that system dynamics modelling can be used to understand the dynamics of the social care workforce who deliver direct care services in the formal sector, specifically, to identify the main feedback loops that govern the dynamics of the system, to identify sensitive and influential factors, and to show non-linearity in the system. Therefore, system dynamics should play a more important role in the analysis of adult social care system.

Carers’ experiences accessing information on supports and services: Learning the social care “dance”

2017 ◽  
Vol 17 (6) ◽  
pp. 832-848 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kylie Meyer
Keyword(s):  
Local Governments ◽  
Information Needs ◽  
Social Care ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Information Services ◽  
Care Services ◽  
The Social ◽  
Informal Carers ◽  
Services And Supports ◽  
Care System

Cities across England will see a growing number of informal carers as the population ages, many of whom do not begin this role equipped with the knowledge they need to access social care services and supports. One of the more significant changes brought by passage of the Care Act of 2014 is local governments’ increased responsibility to improve the provision of information and advice on social care to informal carers, long recognized as a policy priority. To better understand where improvements can be made on a local level in order to achieve the goals laid out in the Care Act, this study considers carers’ experiences accessing information and advice on social care services and supports in a city with a population of over 250,000 in the south of England. This was done through the collection of semi-structure qualitative interviews with 11 carers to people aged 65 and older from April 2015 to July 2015. Thematic analysis of interviews revealed a tension between carers’ varying levels of knowledge and experience with the social care system and information services’ one-size-fits-all approach to providing information. Findings suggest local governments should focus on creating information services that more actively reach out to carers, provide greater guidance to those carers who need it, and work to flexibly meet informal carers information needs, acknowledging that some carers will be less familiar than others with aspects of the social care system.

Public spending on adult social care and delayed transfers of care in England

2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 155-167
Author(s):  
Jose Iparraguirre
Keyword(s):  
Social Care ◽  
Public Spending ◽  
Adverse Outcomes ◽  
Income Poverty ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Care Services ◽  
The Social ◽  
One Year ◽  
Transfers Of Care ◽  
Care System

Purpose This paper aims to whether current public expenditure on adult social care services might be associated with the number of delayed days of care attributable to the social care system in England. Design/methodology/approach Panel econometric models on data from local authorities with adult social care responsibilities in England between 2013–2014 and 2018–2019. Findings After controlling for other organisational sources of inefficiency, the level of demand in the area and the income poverty amongst the resident older population, this paper finds that a 4.5% reduction in current spending per head on adult social care per older person in one year is associated with an increase by 0.01 delayed days per head the following year. Social implications Given the costs of adverse outcomes of delayed transfers of care reported in the literature, this paper suggests that budgetary constraints to adult social care services would represent a false economy of public funds. Originality/value This is the first paper that models the association between public spending on adult social care and delayed transfers of care due to issues originating in the social care system in England.

scholarly journals Exploring the Relationship between the Caregiver’s Stress Load and Dementia Patient Behavior: A Case Study of Dementia Specialist Outpatient Data from the Southern Medical Center of Taiwan

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (14) ◽  
pp. 4989
Author(s):  
Cheng-Chang Liu ◽  
Chang-Franw Lee ◽  
Tung Chang ◽  
Jing-Jing Liao
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Social Care ◽  
Medical Center ◽  
Service Planning ◽  
Dementia Patient ◽  
Patient Behavior ◽  
The Social ◽  
Stress Levels ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Care System

The aim of this study was to explore the relationship between caregivers’ stress loads and dementia patient behavior, including the correlation of “patient behavior” (severity and frequency), “social care system”, and “stress levels of caregivers”. The research method was based on the analysis of survey data collected at a dementia specialist outpatient clinic of a medical center in southern Taiwan from November 2013 to May 2015. Those surveyed by the center included patients who visited the hospital, and their caregivers completed a questionnaire survey. During the study period, a total of 558 questionnaires for 279 pairs were distributed, and all questionnaires were recovered. According to the survey statistics, the average age of the caregivers interviewed was 53.1 years; women accounted for 61.3% of respondents, and the duration of care exceeded three years. In terms of education, most respondents were college/university graduates. The most common surveyed relationship was that of children acting as the caregiver to a parent, and the average age of the patients was 77.73 years. Most caregivers were found to live with the patients (75.3%). In terms of severity and frequency, the surveyed items with the highest average scores were both the “delusion” item of the “patient behavior” facet, the “mental support”(mean = 1.97; standard deviation, SD = 0.869) item of the “social care system” facet, and the “social life stress” (mean = 2.26, SD = 1.510) item of the “Stress levels of caregivers” facet. The research results show that the “patient behavior” and “Stress levels of caregivers” facets have a significant positive correlation, and the “social care system” and “Stress levels of caregivers” facets have a significant negative correlation. In the future, priority of service planning and implementation of long–term policy should be given to home care, since this is a cultural characteristic of Taiwan. In circumstances where a primary caregiver takes care of family members, the patient’s behavior, length of care, mental support, and social life issues are key items that should be considered in the social welfare control service to alleviate the load of dementia patients on family caregivers.

Socio-pedagogical knowledge expertise across the social care sectors in Northern Europe

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-13
Author(s):  
Irena Dychawy Rosner
Keyword(s):  
Social Care ◽  
The Body ◽  
Northern Europe ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Care Services ◽  
Body Of Knowledge ◽  
Social Pedagogy ◽  
The Social ◽  
Health And Social Care ◽  
Cooperative Process

A major challenge in contemporary welfare societies is the delivery of services affirming people’s expectations for their life standard, health and social care services. For decades, there has been a search to understand new ways of conceptualising social pedagogy as a field of practice, as a theory, and as a programme design and implementation. Despite the growing body of literature on social pedagogy, to date, little has been written on the subject of the unique complexities of social pedagogy knowledge expertise when bridging the supporting relationships between an individual and the social dimensions in his/her world. Based on research conducted in Northern Europe, particularly focusing on Denmark and Sweden, the aim of this special issue of International Journal of Papers of Social Pedagogy (PSP) on Contemporary Issues in Social Pedagogy in Northern Europe is to convey the central importance of social pedagogy for the study of vitality and diversity behind social pedagogy thought. The presented research projects in this special issue are, in their foundation, associated with a constructivist approach that views the body of knowledge development as an active and cooperative process of knowledge construction and its application in social pedagogy discipline. This article intends to provide a general perspective concerning the presence of various knowledge forms according to the search for, and implementation of, thinking and acting in a social pedagogy inspired way, and working under various conditions.

News Analysis

2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (7) ◽  
pp. 366-366
Author(s):  
Melissa McAlees
Keyword(s):  
Regional Differences ◽  
Social Care ◽  
Care Provision ◽  
News Analysis ◽  
The Social ◽  
Care System

It has been clear for some time now that the social care system is failing. A recent report by Age UK sheds more light on this and points out regional differences in care provision.

Transforming the social care system

2018 ◽  
Vol 20 (11) ◽  
pp. 564-567
Author(s):  
Helen Dempster
Keyword(s):  
Social Care ◽  
The Social ◽  
Care System
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