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Title Caring for children with complex needs in the community / edited by Jean Teare
Published Oxford ; Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2008
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Description 1 online resource (xv, 190 pages)
Series Wiley SCELC e-books
Contents 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
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Children with disabilities -- Care -- Great Britain.
Chronically ill children -- Care -- Great Britain.
Community health services for children -- Great Britain.
Child Health Services.
Community Health Services.
Disabled Children.
Family Relations.
Social Support.
Form Electronic book
Author Teare, Jean.
ISBN 1444302612
1444302620 (electronic bk.)
9781444302615
9781444302622 (electronic bk.)
(paperback; alk. paper)
(paperback; alk. paper)