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Record Nr.

UNISA996208658303316

Titolo

Caring for children with complex needs in the community [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Jean Teare

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; Malden, MA, : Blackwell Pub., 2008

ISBN

1-282-68344-6

9786612683442

1-4443-0261-2

1-4443-0262-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (208 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

TeareJean

Disciplina

362.198/92

618.9200231

Soggetti

Children with disabilities - Care - Great Britain

Chronically ill children - Care - Great Britain

Community health services for children - Great Britain

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Defining children with complex needs / Jean Teare -- Commissioning care of children with complex needs / Elizabeth Thornley -- Caring for technology-dependent children who require respiratory assistance / Jean Teare -- Caring for children with complex needs who require home enteral tube feeds / Janice High -- Caring for children with complex disabilities / Jean Teare -- Multi-agency care for children with complex needs / Mary Law -- Being a parent of a child with complex needs: what support works / Dawn Handley -- Respite care or short breaks for families of children with complex needs / Margaret Hickie -- Social service support for disabled children, children with complex needs and their families / Philip Gilligan and Juliet Taylor -- Educational support of children with complex care needs / David Wray.

Sommario/riassunto

Caring for the Child with Complex Needs in Community Settings provides a valuable overview of the key factors relating to caring for children with complex and continuing care needs. Despite its frequent and increasing use, complex care needs is a term without an agreed definition. This shortfall of knowledge is addressed in this book



through critical discussion of evidence-based research and current health, social and education policy. It brings together the latest knowledge into one text providing practitioners with the crucial information needed when working with this diverse and broad group