Redefining who cares? Challenging professional roles for accommodating community ownership

Who Cares for Children?

My search for answers began in Birmingham in 1932 with the scientific humanity of Leonard Parsons; it found its main direction in James Spence's Newcastle where, for fifteen of my twenty-seven years there I crossed almost daily the frontier between home and hospital to make some 3,000 visits to every kind of family in every circumstance of life. Then clinical and academic colleagues brought the...

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Who Cares for Social Image?∗

Even though the interaction of intrinsic motivation and concerns for social approval has important implications both for crowding out of intrinsic motivation through incentives and for producer choices, little is known about this interaction empirically. We present a laboratory experiment that provides evidence of a relevant interaction effect in the context of ethical consumption. We elicit a ...

Challenging Professional Roles: Lay Carers’ Involvement in Health Care in the Community

The bulk of care in the community is carried out by lay carers. Recent policy initiatives to support them in the United Kingdom are outlined. There remains evidence of significant gaps in support from professional health and social-care workers including community nurses. This paper reports three studies of lay carers: those caring for older people, carers of technology-dependent children, and ...

Who Needs Psychiatry, Who Cares for Psychiatry ?

Sir, I was happy till recently about many progressive activities of our profession through out the country. For example, experiments done to develop community based psychiatric services; brain storming sessions conducted to strengthen the undergraduate psychiatric education. But today, I sit downcast, sharing the profession's collective guilt and responsibility for the recent fate suffered by t...