Social Care: Past and Present - for iPad/Mac/PC
Issues surrounding care and welfare affect people in many different ways - it may depend on individual circumstances or on the location and nature of the community. The tracks on this album look at welfare issues faced by different communities across the UK, focusing mainly on care of the elderly, and people with physical or mental disabilities. The album also explores how care and welfare in the community has changed over the years. This material was part of The Open University course K202 Care, welfare and community.
- Update frequency
- every day
- Average duration
- 11 minutes
- Episodes
- 15
- Years Active
- 2009 - 2010
Talking about Care
The different experiences of people caring for family members at home
00:14:29 |
Mon 01 Jun 2009
Carers from Minority Ethnic Groups
The specific needs of carers from minority ethnic groups with emphasis on the Chinese Welfare Association in Belfast
00:10:23 |
Mon 01 Jun 2009
Working Together
The history and background of Middleton based multidisciplinary care scheme MERIT
00:06:42 |
Mon 01 Jun 2009
How MERIT Works
A detailed description of the MERIT Scheme process from referral and assessment to care provided
00:12:27 |
Mon 01 Jun 2009
The MERIT Members
MERIT scheme members' personal and professional opinions on the multidisciplinary way of working
00:07:16 |
Mon 01 Jun 2009
Assessment: Brian and Sylvia's story
The experience of a couple being assessed for various care services and comments on that experience from an occupational therapist and a social worker
00:09:37 |
Mon 01 Jun 2009
Assessment: Anne's story
The experience of a woman forced to retire due to ill health and comments on that experience from an occupational therapist and a social worker
00:09:21 |
Mon 01 Jun 2009
Care Transactions
A discussion of different care situations with the people involved asked to consider the transactions, either in cash or kind, that their caring relationships entail
00:19:05 |
Mon 01 Jun 2009
From Home Help to Home Care
The changing provision of social care in Britain over the last seventy years is demonstrated by the transformation of the home help service into home care
00:13:37 |
Mon 01 Jun 2009
Changing Practice in Social Care
The considerable impact on the roles and skills of health and social care workers by the reduction of long term hospital provision and the implementation of the NHS and Community Care Act
00:07:13 |
Mon 01 Jun 2009
Butetown Women
The memories of care and support in Cardiff's Butetown in the 1930s recalled by five former residents.
00:10:28 |
Mon 01 Jun 2009
Something to Offer: LETS Schemes
The idea of providing people with the opportunity to trade skills and goods without cash changing hands was developed into the LETS Scheme
00:16:27 |
Mon 01 Jun 2009
Investigating Adult Abuse
Personal accounts by carers regarding their experiences and views of care and abuse
00:12:58 |
Mon 01 Jun 2009
Inspecting a Nursing Home
The inspection of a nursing home for older people carried out by an informal inspection party and the resulting impressions
00:16:31 |
Mon 01 Jun 2009
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