Carers NSW wishes everybody a Happy New Year
CONFERENCES AND SEMINARS
Carers NSW Health Conference: "Partnerships for Better Health
Outcomes. Carers and professionals working together"
Carers NSW is organising a conference in March 2007 for professionals who
work in health and community care. The conference will focus on supporting
carers; carer recognition and participation; and the benefits of working with
carers. Those wishing to attend should visit www.carersnsw.asn.au
and follow the links under "Health Conference 2007".
When: Thursday 8 and
Friday 9 March 2007
Where: Dockside, Cockle
Bay, Sydney
Contact: conference@carersnsw.asn.au
02 9280 4744
The Down Syndrome Association of NSW: "All the Way Project. Seminar
Program for Family Carers January - June 2007"
This seminar program provides information and support for family carers
of adolescents and adults with Down Syndrome. The seminars take place
in metropolitan as well as regional areas. Sessions in Vietnamese, Chinese
and Arabic are yet to be confirmed. See this brochure
for the workshop program.
WHAT'S NEW
Taskforce on Care Costs
On 18 October 2006 the Taskforce released its long awaited report. The
enquiry was set up to inform the Federal Government about Australians in paid
work who care for their children, elderly parents or a friend or relative living
with a disability. With this information, better planning can be made to include
carers in the workplace. The investigation uses economic modelling and
a national survey of 1000 Australians with caring responsibilities to make recommendations
that can be read at this website.
The Brain Injury Association
A new carer support group has been established for carers
of those affected by brain injury in the Illawarra region.
Where: Headway, 4 Mercury Street, Wollongong
When: First
Tuesday of every month between 10.00am and12.00pm
Contact: Jacob Joseph
Community
Development Coordinator
Brain
Injury Association of NSW
jacobj@biansw.org.au
or phone 1800 802 840
For more information about brain injury support visit www.biansw.org.au
JOURNAL ARTICLES
This is a selection of articles published recently in various health and social sciences journals. Abstracts are provided as a link under the title of each article. To obtain a copy of any journal article, you will need to contact your nearest library:
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Articles are under the subject headings listed below. Click on the heading to view articles about each subject.
Carers Generally
Nursing Homes and Hospitals
Carers of the Mentally Ill
Parent Carers of Children with Disabilities
Palliative Care
Carers of those with Specific Chronic
Illnesses
CARERS GENERALLY
The work of elderly men caregivers. From public careers to an unseen world
Richard Russell
Men and Masculinities, 2007; 9(3): 298-314
Abstract
Relations between social support, appraisal and coping and both positive and
negative outcomes in young carers
Kenneth I Pakenham, Jessica Chiu, Samantha Bursnall and Toni Cannon
Journal of Health Psychology, 2007; 12 (1): 89-102
Abstract
The experience of caring for someone over 75 years of age: results from a Scottish
general practice population.
A Jarvis, A Worth, and M Porter
Journal of Clinical Nursing, November 1, 2006; 15(11): 1450-9
Abstract
Abuse of elderly men and women among clients of a community psychogeriatric
service
Gail Wilson
British Journal of Social Work; 24(6): 681-700
Abstract
Call us carers: Limitations and risks in campaigning for recognition and exclusivity
Liz Lloyd
Critical Social Policy, 2006; 26(4): 945-960
Abstract
NURSING HOMES AND HOSPITALS
A multi-centre randomized control group trial on the use of art therapy for
older people with dementia
Jennifer Rusted, Linda Sheppard and Diane Waller
Group Analysis, 2006; 39(4): 517-536
Abstract
CARERS OF THE MENTALLY ILL
A suggested push model for interpreting the dilemmas of institutional care,
community care and family care of mental-health consumers
Kam-shing Yip
International Social Work, 2006; 49(6): 805-817
Abstract
Third time lucky?
Clare Dyer
British Medical Journal, 25 November 2006; 333: 1090
Abstract
Best practice when service users do not consent to sharing information with
carers
Mike Slade, Vanessa Pinfold, Joan Rapaport, Sophie Bellringer, Sube Banerjee,
Elizabeth Kuipers and Peter Huxley
The British Journal of Psychiatry, 2007; 190: 148-155
Abstract
PARENT CARERS OF CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES
Older carers of adults with a learning disability confront the future: Issues
and preferences in planning
Laura Bowey and Alex McGlaughlin
British Journal of Social Work, 2007; 37 (1): 39-54
Abstract
The experience of health and wellness in mothers of young children with intellectual
disabilities
Sandra Mackey, Linda D. Goddard
Journal of Intellectual Disabilities, 2006; 10( 4): 305-315
Abstract
Parents’ experience of having a child with autism and learning disabilities
living in a group home
Ylva Benderix, Berit Nordström, Bengt Sivberg
Autism, 2006; 10(6): 629-641
Abstract
PALLIATIVE CARE
A retrospective review of place of death of palliative care patients in regional
north Queensland
A Howat, C Veitch and W Cairns
Palliative Medicine, 2007; 21(1): 41-47
Abstract
Terminally-ill people living alone without a caregiver: an Australian national
scoping study of palliative care needs
S Aoun, L J Kristjanson, D Currow, K Skett, L Oldham and P Yates
Palliative Medicine, 2007; 21(1): 29-34
Abstract
What people close to death say about euthanasia and assisted suicide: a qualitative
study
A Chapple, S Ziebland, A McPherson and A Herxheimer
Journal of Medical Ethics, 2006; 32: 706-710
Abstract
CARERS OF THOSE WITH SPECIFIC CHRONIC
ILLNESSES
How can occupational therapy improve the daily performance and communication
of an older patient with dementia and his primary caregiver? A case study
Maud J L Graff, Myrra J M Vernooij-Dassen, Jana Zajec, Marcel G M Olde-Rikkert,
Willibrord H L Hoefnagels and Joost Dekker
Dementia, 2006; 5(4): 503-532
Abstract
Supportive care needs of people with brain tumours and their carers
M Janda, E G Eakin, L Bailey, D Walker, and K Troy
Support Care Cancer, November 1, 2006; 14(11): 1094-103.
Abstract
Stress and depression in family carers following traumatic brain injury: the
influence of beliefs about difficult behaviours
Gerard A Riley
Clinical Rehabilitation, 2007; 21(1): 82-88
Abstract
WEBSITES
The Rural Health Education Foundation
provides television-based health education
for doctors, pharmacists, nurses and allied health professionals in an effort
to reduce professional isolation in rural areas. Broadcasts take place
via the Foundation's satellite network or on their website www.rhef.com.au.
At 8.00pm
Tuesday 27 February a programme entitled "Dementia:
Carers and Families" will be broadcast. For details click here
Change Champions organises seminars throughout 2007 for health professionals
on a range of clinical management issues. Some of the issues looked at
include palliative care, ethics in medical decision making and the improved
management of patients living with a disability. For a list of seminars
in the first half of 2007 go to www.changechampions.com.au
Aged Care Australia. The Department of Health and Aging has launched
a new website to help older people and their carers to find the information
that they need. Search for information on staying in your own home, residential
care, looking after yourself as a carer and other health issues
Go to www.agedcareaustralia.gov.au
RESEARCH
The Sandwich Generation: women caring for parents
and children
The Bureau of Labour Statistics in the United
States has recently collated data from the National Longitudinal Surveys of
Young Women (NLSW) in the USA. The survey includes women who were aged
between 14 and 24 when first interviewed in 1968.
The Sandwich Generation is a term used
to describe this now middle-aged generation who have elderly parents and dependent
children. Data extracted from the survey relating to this group of women
can be found at the Bureau of Labour Statistics.
Click 'Advance Search' and type the term 'sandwich generation'.
While in Canada ....
In 2002 over one million employed people aged 45 to 64 provided informal
care to seniors with long-term conditions and disabilities. While the majority
of low-intensity caregivers felt few or no socio-economic consequences, when
higher degrees of caregiving and employment were combined two thirds of women
experienced substantial employment-related consequences. The full
report is from Statistics Canada, entitled Balancing Career and Care,
by Wendy Pyper in the journal Perspectives on Labour and Income (Catalogue
no. 75-001-XIE); 2006, 7 (11): 5-15.