Vulnerable adults
Vulnerable adults in the privately rented sector in England : a snapshot of current practice issues
... with vulnerable adults living in the PRS in the ...on vulnerable adults already settled in the PRS leading to further deprivation and risk of ...support vulnerable individuals in the ...
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Boats against the current: vulnerable adults in police custody
... The Police and Criminal Evidence Act (1984) provided key safeguards for the protection of vulnerable adults – that is, adults with mental health problems or learning disabilities – while in police ...
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THE PROTECTION OF VULNERABLE ADULTS FROM ABUSE: LOCAL CODES OF PRACTICE
... of vulnerable adults in domiciliary or family settings only began to be undertaken on a significant scale in the 1970s and 1980s, mainly in the ...of vulnerable adults has many parallels with ...
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There to help: ensuring provision of appropriate adults for mentally vulnerable adults detained or interviewed by police
... mentally vulnerable adults – thereby aligning the Act with the Codes of Practice, and removing any ambiguity about whether AA provision for vulnerable adults is a requirement or matter of ...
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No secrets: Guidance on developing and implementing multi-agency policies and procedures to protect vulnerable adults from abuse
... 5.4 Commissioning of services and contract monitoring. Service commissioners, at both national and local level, should ensure that all documents, such as service specifications, invitations to tender and service ...
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Assessment: Financial crime against vulnerable adults
... Financial institutions have not traditionally been involved with adult safeguarding, but have nevertheless recognised that financial crime can be a problem for vulnerable adults. For example, the Building ...
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Safeguarding Adults – report on the Consultation on the review of “ No secrets: Guidance on developing and implementing multi-agency policies and procedures to protect vulnerable adults from abuse”
... that it allowed the practitioner to elicit a patient’s experience of the topic chosen for auditing and for the patient and their carer to be part of the action-planning group for change thereby empowering frontline staff ...
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A synthesis of the evidence on peer research with potentially vulnerable adults: how this relates to dementia
... Methods Electronic searches Given the paucity of studies on peer-research with people with dementia, to supplement our data we extended our investigation to studies reporting peer-resear[r] ...
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Systematic review of the evidence on housing interventions for ‘housing-vulnerable’ adults and its relationship to wellbeing
... homelessness service provider organisations in the areas where the study was conducted aimed to ensure that the project was designed to meet the needs of homeless people in these communities. The study interviewed the ...
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A designated centre for people with disabilities operated by RehabCare, Cavan
... protecting vulnerable adults did not name a person to whom an allegation should be reported and an individual was not named if staff wished to bring a matter to the attention of a more senior member of the ...
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY OF THE SERIOUS CASE REVIEW OVERVIEW REPORT FOR THE SOUTHAMPTON ADULT SAFEGUARDING BOARD JULY 2012
... 3.6 The lack of authority of the sleeping in staff who appear to have disregarded the behaviour of some of the residents, or to have summoned the police to deal with matters which were really their responsibility. In the ...
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Turning the Key: Portraits of low literacy amongst people with experience of homelessness
... A further pitfall of trying to distinguish dyslexia from other causes of low literacy in vulnerable adults is typified by studies conducted in prisons. Some of these have been criticised for their ...
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Safeguarding vulnerable groups
... with vulnerable adults, do not gravitate to working for direct payment services instead, finding employment directly with vulnerable people who know absolutely nothing about their ...with ...
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Support for vulnerable defendants:
... entitled to support from an AA, as are vulnerable adults. However, while in law still a child, a 17 year old is not automatically entitled to the support of an AA. Although in theory a ‘vulnerable’ ...
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Different models of best practice for transition to adulthood and adult services
... Access to transition services/support Better mental health support during transition Provision of timely and accurate information Inclusive ‘vulnerable adults’ teams in adult social care[r] ...
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Older people's experiences of changed medication appearance due to generic prescribing: a qualitative study
... The implications for the roles of those who prescribe or dispense medicines, or those who have caring responsibilities for older people such as district nurses and those from partner agencies such as Local Authorities ...
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Vulnerable within the vulnerable : protection of orphaned children heading households in Tanzania
... MM is a new initiative which is neither provided by law nor is it customary. The MM concept depicts the role of an aunt (Mother’s elder sister or mother’s friend) and is an informal fostering scheme for the care and ...
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Higher levels of tumor necrosis factor β are associated with frailty in socially vulnerable community-dwelling older adults
... in vulnerable areas, most people living in these zones are users and are registered on the SUS ...older adults (60 years and over) were selected, who were registered in the SUS database in a region with a ...
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Policing vulnerable people
... a vulnerable population, with young people in this category specifically viewed as being “at-risk” of victimization and/or legally ...but vulnerable as the assumption is they will experience victimisation ...
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Cognition and dual-task performance in older adults with Parkinson's and Alzheimer's disease
... Older adults with Parkinson’s disease (PD) and Alzheimer’s disease (AD) may suffer from both motor and cognitive impairments, making them espe- cially vulnerable to poor dual-task ...
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