Elder Assessment and Referral Services (EARS) assists the adult children and family members of elderly adults to find the care and resources they need. Our clients are able to maintain quality of life as they age, and we help ensure their mental, social, spiritual and physical wellbeing. ...
Social workers may choose to refer a client to another provider rather than treat them themselves because (a) the social worker has a personal value conflict that would prevent them from giving adequate care (Banks,2020); (b) the client needs services or interventions in which the social worke...
Community Mental Health ServicesAdultWashingtonCommitment of Mentally IllReferral and ConsultationSocial EnvironmentSex FactorsFemaleThis paper investigates the relationship between sex status, community referral sources, and determination of voluntary or involuntary disposition. The relationship between sex status ...
Typically, services are delivered by community-based providers using what some have called a “supportive case management” approach, which includes some concrete assistance, social support, referrals for specific problems, and parenting advice, but little structured intervention. Evaluations of these ...
10 It comprises many services,11 including eye examination, visual function assessment, fitting of and training with optical aids, psychological and social services, home visits, fitness to drive evaluation/rehabilitation, and employment counseling. It also includes interventions to improve orientation and...
I enjoy working with young adults and spent 12 years working as a social worker and program coordinator at the Young Adult Program of the Institute of Pennsylvania Hospital. I spent 18 years at Psychology and Counseling Associates working with adolescents, adults and couples. I work with ...
A survey of general practitioners (GPs) in the Western Health and Social Services Board was carried out in November 1990. The main objectives were to determine the factors which influence GPs' decisions to refer to particular hospitals and to ascertain current out-patient referral patterns. A self...
Department of Health and Social Care. Progress in improving mental health services in England. www.nao.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Progress-in-improving-mental-health-services-CS.pdf (2023). Andrade, L. H. et al. Barriers to mental health treatment: results from the WHO World Mental...
Community resource needs of these caregivers included social, entertainment, personal self-care and hospice services. Main barriers to resource use were the inability to leave the person with dementia unsupervised and the care recipient’s disinterest in participating in their own self-care. ...
Various Home Office departments have introduced, or are in the process of introducing, initiatives that aim to bring justice in to a social context; that is, the community affected will be the community that judges. The Juvenile Offenders Unit (now known as the Youth Justice and Children Unit...