Milne, Alisoun, Nieman, Sally (2024) Revisioning social work with older people living in a care home: promoting rights and reducing social control. Critical and Radical Social Work, . ISSN 2049-8675. (doi:10.1332/20498608y2024d000000049) (KAR id:107229)
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Abstract
Care home residents are exposed to high levels of social control. Despite this, and regardless of their disempowered and vulnerable status, they receive limited attention from social workers. The social work role is primarily transactional, relating to admission, reviews of placements, Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards assessments and investigations of abuse. Evidence suggests that higher levels of engagement with residents are likely to reduce risks of abuse and contribute to reduced levels of social control. There are three routes of impact: a formal ongoing link with care homes; greater involvement with the four existing roles, shifting the focus from procedure to process; and the adoption of a new, more critical role that is informed by political ethics, enhancing rights and social justice. This revisioned role will offer residents access to the knowledge and skills of a social worker and to higher levels of protection from systems and practices that are harmful and controlling.
Item Type: | Article |
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DOI/Identification number: | 10.1332/20498608y2024d000000049 |
Uncontrolled keywords: | older people; care homes; social work with older people; social control |
Subjects: | H Social Sciences |
Divisions: | Divisions > Division for the Study of Law, Society and Social Justice > School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research |
Funders: | University of Kent (https://ror.org/00xkeyj56) |
SWORD Depositor: | JISC Publications Router |
Depositing User: | JISC Publications Router |
Date Deposited: | 19 Nov 2024 15:45 UTC |
Last Modified: | 20 Nov 2024 12:52 UTC |
Resource URI: | https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/107229 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes) |
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