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Social Care: Past and Present - for iPad/Mac/PC

by The Open University

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.

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Episodes

  1. Social Care: Past and Present

    A short introduction to this album.

  2. Changing communities in north Sheffield

    Introducing the two adjacent but distinct communities of Darnall and Tinsley in north Sheffield.

  3. Sheffield Health Action Zone

    Working with the community to improve individual and community welfare.

  4. Ethnic diversity in Sheffield communities

    Sheffield Social Services' dedicated Home Care Service for the Bangladeshi community in Darnall.

  5. Living with disability in Darnall

    A disabled woman talks about the support she gets from Social Services, family and friends.

  6. Living in Tinsley

    Although it's only two miles from Darnall, life in Tinsley has its own distinctive health and social welfare issues.

  7. Talking about Care

    The different experiences of people caring for family members at home

  8. Carers from Minority Ethnic Groups

    The specific needs of carers from minority ethnic groups with emphasis on the Chinese Welfare Association in Belfast

  9. Working Together

    The history and background of Middleton based multidisciplinary care scheme MERIT

  10. How MERIT Works

    A detailed description of the MERIT Scheme process from referral and assessment to care provided

  11. The MERIT Members

    MERIT scheme members' personal and professional opinions on the multidisciplinary way of working

  12. 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

  13. 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

  14. 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

  15. 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

  16. 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

  17. Butetown Women

    The memories of care and support in Cardiff's Butetown in the 1930s recalled by five former residents.

  18. 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

  19. Investigating Adult Abuse

    Personal accounts by carers regarding their experiences and views of care and abuse

  20. Inspecting a Nursing Home

    The inspection of a nursing home for older people carried out by an informal inspection party and the resulting impressions

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ABOUT THIS SHOW

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.

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