scholarly journals The Psychogeriatric Panel: A Health and Social Services Partnership

1982 ◽  
Vol 6 (7) ◽  
pp. 114-115
Author(s):  
B. Warwick Durrant
Keyword(s):  
Health Service ◽  
Social Services ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Multiprofessional Team ◽  
Health And Social Services

Any service designed to meet the needs of the elderly must necessarily embrace a wide diversity of personnel and facilities. Not only is a multiprofessional team imperative, but such resources as are available—whether in the Health Service or personal Social Services—must be used in the full.

scholarly journals “It’s not like I’m more Indigenous there and I’m less Indigenous here.”: urban Métis women’s identity and access to health and social services in Toronto, Canada

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 323-331
Author(s):  
Renée Monchalin ◽  
Janet Smylie ◽  
Cheryllee Bourgeois
Keyword(s):  
Health Service ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Survival Strategies ◽  
Health And Social Services ◽  
Women's Identity ◽  
Access To Health ◽  
Learning Journey ◽  
One Step ◽  
Service Gap

Colonial policies and identity debates have resulted in major gaps in access to culturally safe health and social services for Métis Peoples living in Canada. To address the Métis health service gap, this qualitative study explores urban Métis women’s identity and their experiences with health and social services in Toronto, Canada. Métis women ( n = 11) understand Métis identity as having connection to community, intergenerational identity survival strategies, a learning journey, and connection to land. Building Métis community determined understandings of Métis identity into urban health and social services may be one step toward addressing existing culturally safe health service gaps.

scholarly journals On the move: Exploring health service providers’ perspectives about family participation in care in Nunavik, a qualitative study.

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Louise Fraser ◽  
Louise Moulin ◽  
Dominique Gaulin ◽  
Jennifer Thompson
Keyword(s):  
Health Service ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Police Officers ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Snowball Sampling ◽  
Health Service Provider ◽  
Indigenous Youth ◽  
Health And Social Services ◽  
Health Service Providers ◽  
Historical Factors

Abstract BackgroundLiterature on participation in health and social services suggests that youth are difficult to engage within health and social services. Indigenous youth are less likely to access services or to actively participate in decision-making regarding their personal care. This article analyzes health and social service providers’ perspectives, experiences and expectations regarding the roles of a particular group of Indigenous youth, families and community in care settings in Nunavik, Quebec.MethodsA snowball sampling method was used to recruit participants. A total of 58 participants were interviewed including psychiatrists, general practitioners, nurses, social workers, school principals, teachers, student counsellors, representatives of local committees (education committee, health committee), and police officers. Of the 58 participants, 39 were non-Inuit and 19 were Inuit. The interviews focused on three broad themes: 1) participants’ current and past positions/roles; 2) participants’ perceptions of the clientele (youth and their families) they work with; and 3) participants’ understanding of collaborations taking place within and between services (who works with whom) and community. Applied thematic analyses were conducted. The model that we present allows us to describe health service provider expectations and experiences regarding patient and community participation. ResultsWe organize findings around three themes: I) The most commonly described interventions, II) different types of challenges to and within participation; and III) what successful participation can look like according to service providers. Participants speak of the challenges for families to go towards services as well as the challenges for services providers to go towards youth and families, including personal, organisational and historical factors. ConclusionWe adopt a critical lens to reflect on the key findings in order to tease out points of tension and paradoxes that might hinder the participation of youth and families. We then use a constructive lens to amalgamate and build on service providers’ descriptions of challenges and successes to identify promising approaches that seem to encourage participation of youth and families.

Patterns of Health and Social Services Utilization

1989 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-33 ◽  
Author(s):  
François Béland
Keyword(s):  
Health Status ◽  
Social Services ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Support Network ◽  
Pension Scheme ◽  
Small Subset ◽  
Physical And Mental Health ◽  
Services Utilization ◽  
Health And Social Services ◽  
Two Samples

ABSTRACTUtilization of an array of health and social services from formal and informal sources is studied here 1) to identify profiles of services utilization and 2) to predict the location of elderly in these profiles by a set of independent variables such as the sociodemographic characteristics of the elderly, their physical and mental health status and the density of their social support network. Two samples of non-institutionalized elderly living in two middle-sized towns were drawn from the universal old-age Canadian pension scheme. Their utilization of hospital, medical and pharmaceutical services was assessed, and their use of services for help with adivities of daily living was measured by a set of six indicators. A cluster analysis was run to identify profites of services utilization, and a discriminant analysis used the profiles as the criterion to be predicted by a set of variables. Five profiles of utilization were obtained; four of them identified elderly with very few experiences of services utilization and a fifth, a low number of elderly with utilization of all of the services listed in this study. Most of the elderly were users of a small subset of medical and social services. The location of elderly in the profiles was predicted by physical health status, coresidence and income. These results show that health and social services from both formal and informal sources are utilized by elderly. It is suggested that new types of formal agencies which consider the simultaneous delivery of social and health services will succeed inasmuch as they have the ability to interact with a system of informal care.

The Effect of the Community Care Act 1990 on Discharge from a Psychogeriatric Unit to Residential and Nursing Homes

1996 ◽  
Vol 36 (4) ◽  
pp. 328-330 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ajit Shah
Keyword(s):  
National Health Service ◽  
Nursing Homes ◽  
Health Service ◽  
Hospital Admission ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Community Care ◽  
Hospital Admissions ◽  
Considerable Time ◽  
Health And Social Services ◽  
Before And After

This study compares the proportion of patients discharged to residential and nursing homes from a psychogeriatric unit and the length of hospital admissions before and after the introduction of the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990. This Act appeared not to influence the proportion of patients discharged to residential and nursing homes and the length of hospital admission. A year after the introduction of this Act may be too soon to observe an effect as the actual implementation of the Act by the health and social services may take considerable time.

Factors Affecting the Use of Social and Health Services Among the Elderly

1981 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 95-115 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas T. H. Wan ◽  
Barbara Gill Odell
Keyword(s):  
Social Services ◽  
Psychological Functioning ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Planned Change ◽  
Physician Services ◽  
Dental Services ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Health And Social Services ◽  
Andersen Model ◽  
Factors Influencing

ABSTRACTThis study has systematically examined the use of health and social services among non-institutionalized elderly people according to the Andersen model which groups factors influencing use into predisposing, enabling and need variables. Need for service as evidenced by physical and psychological functioning was the most important predictor of use of physician services and hospitalization. Predisposing factors had the most effect on use of dental services. On the other hand, knowledge of services, an enabling factor, was most relevant to use of social services. Since this factor is manipulable to planned change, several program strategies were suggested for increasing awareness of social services particularly among the impaired elderly.

Toward a Continuum of Services for the Elderly

1981 ◽  
Vol 75 (3) ◽  
pp. 126-130
Author(s):  
Robert Morris
Keyword(s):  
Social Services ◽  
Human Service ◽  
Elderly Population ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Health And Social Services ◽  
Human Service Agencies ◽  
Alternative Approaches ◽  
Service Agencies ◽  
The Continuum

Examines the existing system of providing health and social services to America's elderly population and concludes that in the next few decades, much will have to be done to smooth out the continuum of services provided to this ever increasing group. He suggests five alternative approaches to achieve this goal: (1) deprofessionalization of some tasks in human service agencies, (2) alteration of the existing service mechanisms and systems, (3) major reconstruction of the existing system, (4) better preparation for retirement, and (5) improving the linkage between professionals and between agencies.

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