Jill Wilson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3916141 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jill Wilson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jill |
| FAMILY NAME | Wilson |
| SIGNATURE | WILSON J |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Queensland |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5474-5871 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 40 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 79 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 40 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
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Developing a Prioritisation Framework for Social Work Referrals in Australian Hospitals
Negotiating the care convoys for a diverse group of older Australians living in rural communities
Whilst ageing in place is integral to international policy, there is less understanding of how individuals utilise formal services and informal supports in diverse rural environments to maintain their wellness and independence. Consequently, how older people negotiate their care within rural communities is subject to misconceptions. This paper draws on the convoy of care model to explore how older rural Australians negotiate their preferences and…
Examining Ensemble Requirements for Music Education Majors
To better understand existing ensemble requirements for music education majors at U.S. institutions, we conducted a content analysis of ensemble requirements for 1,021 degree programs at 465 colleges and universities accredited by the National Association of Schools of Music (NASM). The mean number of ensemble credits required for each degree program was 7.25 ( SD = 2.89), and the mean number of semester enrollments required was 7.86 ( SD = 1.95)…
The impact of culture and religion on pathways of help seeking and support among family carers of older adults with mental illness
This qualitative study explores the influence of Malay culture and religion in shaping the pathways of help seeking for family carers of older adults with mental health problems in rural Malaysia. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with family carers of older adults diagnosed with schizophrenia, depression and bipolar disorder. Thematic analysis was used to analyse patterns within the data. Based upon the perspectives of family carers, fin…
Lifecourse and housing careers of childless and poor older Malaysians
Secure, affordable housing is strongly linked to wellbeing in older age. This paper reports on a study of childless and poor older Malaysians who are potentially a vulnerable group in relation to accumulating such housing resources for older age. Childless is defined as a person without biological, step or adopted children, and poverty is defined following the national guideline. The research explores the cumulative advantages and disadvantages o…
Capabilities of Practitioners Supporting Young Men with Mild-to-Borderline Intellectual Impairment
This paper identifies key capabilities for practice identified by community practitioners who seek to support the re-entry and reintegration in community after imprisonment of young men with mild-to-borderline intellectual impairment. It is based on a recent qualitative study undertaken in south-east Queensland, Australia, drawing on in-depth and semistructured interviews with community practitioners working with this population group that is ove…
Qualitative interviewing of Malay caregivers
In many cultures, diagnoses of mental illness are commonly associated with stigmatisation. Negative attitudes and beliefs cause significant problems not only for people with mental illness but also for their caregivers. Such attitudes and beliefs are embedded in cultural, religious and social contexts. It is important therefore to understand experiences of stigma in a range of contexts. This article reports on a qualitative study of the experienc…
Cultural Considerations in Will-Making in Australia
This article explores the influence of cultural and religious beliefs and laws on how individuals make decisions about asset distribution through wills, drawing on a case study of Islamic will makers.Findings highlight diversity in beliefs and practices within Australian Islamic communities.When drafting a will people from culturally diverse backgrounds need to accommodate their religious and cultural values and local law.Implications of research…
The Space of Family Care-Giving in Australian Aged Care Facilities
While the importance of involving families in care provision in residential care facilities is recognised, how to achieve an inclusive care space that balances the needs of families, residents, staff and the sector's regulatory requirements remains problematic for social work and the aged care sector. In this paper, a spatial perspective is used to examine the role of family carers in residential care facilities. Information obtained from focus g…
Making and Changing Wills
Wills are important social, economic, and legal documents. Yet little is known about current will making practices and intentions. A comprehensive national database on the prevalence of will making in Australia was developed to identify who is or is not most likely to draw up a will and triggers for making and changing wills. A national survey of 2,405 adults aged above 18 years was administered by telephone in August and September 2012. Fifty-ni…
Perceptions and employment intentions among aged care nurses and nursing assistants from diverse cultural backgrounds
Understanding the influence of community characteristics on wellness for rural older adults
Opening up Options
Historically, social work has been aligned with those in society who are vulnerable or are dangerous to others. The ideal, if not always the reality, for the profession is to ensure that their view
When Families Relinquish Care of a Child with a Disability
This paper explores the experiences and perceptions of four mothers who relinquished care of their child with a disability to residential care in the child protection system in Queensland. Qualitative in-depth interviews were conducted with mothers who asked the statutory authority to assume care of their child. The mothers’ narratives put into sharp focus the socio-political nature of caring for a person with a disability, and the need for more …
Will‐making prevalence and patterns in Australia
This article provides evidence of the prevalence of wills and the principles underpinning the intended distribution of estates in Australia. Intentions around wealth transfers and the social norms that underpin them occur in the context of predicted extensive intergenerational transfers from the ageing baby boomer generation, policies of self provision and user pays for care in old age, broader views on what constitutes ‘family’, the increased im…
Recognising and responding to financial abuse in residential aged care
Purpose Responding to suspected financial abuse in residential aged care provides particular challenges to care managers. This paper aims to explore responses to financial abuse by care managers and the knowledge, policies and principles that guide practice in this context. Design/methodology/approach The research is part of a larger project exploring financial asset management and financial abuse in residential aged care in Australia. The themat…
Professional development in social work
Janet Seden, Sarah Matthews, Mick McCormick and Alun Morgan, Routledge, Abingdon, 2011, 226 pp., £22.99 (pbk), ISBN 978-0-415-55336-0 This collection of 26 papers comes from the research and teachi
Social Work with Marginalised People Who have a Mild or Borderline Intellectual Disability
People with mild or borderline intellectual disabilities are a group of people who usually do not meet the eligibility criteria for specialist disability services, yet are high users of many generalist services, such as mental health, child protection, and criminal justice systems. They may traverse many services, often entering, exiting, and returning to the same service providers with few positive results. This article explores the practice app…
Making the Most of Field Placement
Effective Responses to Offenders with Intellectual Disabilities
Despite policies of deinstitutionalisation, many people with intellectual disabilities in developed western countries continue to live in mainstream institutional settings, such as correctional facilities, rather than in the community with support from disability services. This paper reports on the life stories of 10 people with intellectual disabilities, who had been imprisoned in adult correctional facilities in Queensland. The pathways taken b…
Managing older people's money
Current approaches to the assessment of cognitive capacity in many jurisdictions seek to balance older people's empowerment with their protection. These approaches incorporate a presumption of capacity, a decision-specific rather than global assessment of that capacity, and an obligation to provide the support needed for adults to make or communicate their own decisions. The implication is that older people are assisted to make decisions where po…
Life Story Work and Social Work Practice
In common with other professions social workers have the power to articulate certain ‘‘truths’’ about the people who use their services (Hare Mustin, 1994). These knowledge statements about people, often situated in case files may become the only background information of the lived experience for people with disability (Gillman, Swain, & Heyman, 1997). Social workers need to develop interviewing, assessment and recording practices that give prece…
Longevity and Social Change in Australia
Longevity and Social Change in Australia Allan Borowski, Sol Encel and Elizabeth Ozanne (Eds) Sydney, University of New South Wales Press, 2007 x + 397 pp., ISBN: 9780868408897, $59.95 (paperback)
Older People and Their Assets
Following a 10-year research program around assets and ageing, the present paper summarises the work done, and outlines the major findings from the perspectives of older people, carers, and service providers. The research has explored the roles and practices of family caregivers in managing older people's assets, the experiences of older people who receive such assistance, the factors associated with the financial abuse of older people with and w…
Understanding the influence of community characteristics on wellness for rural older adults
Older People and Their Assets
Following a 10-year research program around assets and ageing, the present paper summarises the work done, and outlines the major findings from the perspectives of older people, carers, and service providers. The research has explored the roles and practices of family caregivers in managing older people's assets, the experiences of older people who receive such assistance, the factors associated with the financial abuse of older people with and w…
Minding the money
Managing the assets of older people is a common and potentially complex task of informal care with legal, financial, cultural, political and family dimensions. Older people are increasingly recognised as having significant assets, but the family, the state, service providers and the market have competing interests in their use. Increased policy interest in self-provision and user-charges for services underline the importance of asset management i…
Access to assets
This paper draws upon findings from a secondary analysis of suspected financial abuse cases in files of the Guardianship and Administration Tribunal in Queensland, Australia. The paper explores the association between formal and semi‐formal asset management arrangements and suspected financial abuse cases. The role of families as formal asset managers is also considered
Life Story Work and Social Work Practice
In common with other professions social workers have the power to articulate certain ‘‘truths’’ about the people who use their services (Hare Mustin, 1994). These knowledge statements about people, often situated in case files may become the only background information of the lived experience for people with disability (Gillman, Swain, & Heyman, 1997). Social workers need to develop interviewing, assessment and recording practices that give prece…
I know I signed something
This purpose of this paper is to report findings that older people are legally vulnerable when entering an aged care facility, that social workers lack knowledge of the legal aspects of this move and do not necessarily view this information as core to their practice. The structure of social work services mirror the disjuncture older people and their families experience at this time and this may, in part, explain social work's lack of attention to…
When Families Relinquish Care of a Child with a Disability
This paper explores the experiences and perceptions of four mothers who relinquished care of their child with a disability to residential care in the child protection system in Queensland. Qualitative in-depth interviews were conducted with mothers who asked the statutory authority to assume care of their child. The mothers’ narratives put into sharp focus the socio-political nature of caring for a person with a disability, and the need for more …
Ethical challenges of life story research with ex‐prisoners with intellectual disability
This paper outlines the ethical considerations when engaging in life story research with ex‐prisoners with intellectual disability. Based on a study conducted in Queensland, Australia, the authors explore some of the challenges that have arisen through the lens of principle‐based ethics. The significant disadvantage experienced by ex‐prisoners with intellectual disability warrants further attention by social researchers, and care must be taken no…
Understanding financial elder abuse in families
The aim of this paper is to stimulate theoretical thought about financial elder abuse within families, by exploring the potential of ‘routine activities theory’ for raising our understanding of, and response to, its occurrences. Research into financial elder abuse, defined as the illegal or improper use of a person's finances or property by another person, has tended to emphasise the abusive event and the associated risk factors. ‘Routine activit…
Negotiating the care convoys for a diverse group of older Australians living in rural communities
Whilst ageing in place is integral to international policy, there is less understanding of how individuals utilise formal services and informal supports in diverse rural environments to maintain their wellness and independence. Consequently, how older people negotiate their care within rural communities is subject to misconceptions. This paper draws on the convoy of care model to explore how older rural Australians negotiate their preferences and…
Capabilities of Practitioners Supporting Young Men with Mild-to-Borderline Intellectual Impairment
This paper identifies key capabilities for practice identified by community practitioners who seek to support the re-entry and reintegration in community after imprisonment of young men with mild-to-borderline intellectual impairment. It is based on a recent qualitative study undertaken in south-east Queensland, Australia, drawing on in-depth and semistructured interviews with community practitioners working with this population group that is ove…
Qualitative interviewing of Malay caregivers
In many cultures, diagnoses of mental illness are commonly associated with stigmatisation. Negative attitudes and beliefs cause significant problems not only for people with mental illness but also for their caregivers. Such attitudes and beliefs are embedded in cultural, religious and social contexts. It is important therefore to understand experiences of stigma in a range of contexts. This article reports on a qualitative study of the experienc…
Perceptions and employment intentions among aged care nurses and nursing assistants from diverse cultural backgrounds
Recognising and responding to financial abuse in residential aged care
Purpose Responding to suspected financial abuse in residential aged care provides particular challenges to care managers. This paper aims to explore responses to financial abuse by care managers and the knowledge, policies and principles that guide practice in this context. Design/methodology/approach The research is part of a larger project exploring financial asset management and financial abuse in residential aged care in Australia. The themat…
Research Note
Family involvement in managing the financial assets of older people is an area of policy and practice importance. This importance relates to the complexity of older people’s assets, systems of paying for care and concerns around substitute decision-making and financial abuse. Although a common task of informal care, little is known about older people’s experiences and wishes in relation to asset management. This paper reports on a qualitative stu…
A model of substitute decision-making
Substitute decisions are those made on behalf of people who are not able to make decisions for themselves. From an ethical point of view it is important that substitute decision-making involving another person's health and well-being be approached methodically. The decision-making model outlined in this article was developed during a study which investigated substitute menstrual management decision-making for young women who had intellectual disa…
Developing a Prioritisation Framework for Social Work Referrals in Australian Hospitals
Lifecourse and housing careers of childless and poor older Malaysians
Secure, affordable housing is strongly linked to wellbeing in older age. This paper reports on a study of childless and poor older Malaysians who are potentially a vulnerable group in relation to accumulating such housing resources for older age. Childless is defined as a person without biological, step or adopted children, and poverty is defined following the national guideline. The research explores the cumulative advantages and disadvantages o…
Cultural Considerations in Will-Making in Australia
This article explores the influence of cultural and religious beliefs and laws on how individuals make decisions about asset distribution through wills, drawing on a case study of Islamic will makers.Findings highlight diversity in beliefs and practices within Australian Islamic communities.When drafting a will people from culturally diverse backgrounds need to accommodate their religious and cultural values and local law.Implications of research…
The Space of Family Care-Giving in Australian Aged Care Facilities
While the importance of involving families in care provision in residential care facilities is recognised, how to achieve an inclusive care space that balances the needs of families, residents, staff and the sector's regulatory requirements remains problematic for social work and the aged care sector. In this paper, a spatial perspective is used to examine the role of family carers in residential care facilities. Information obtained from focus g…
Making and Changing Wills
Wills are important social, economic, and legal documents. Yet little is known about current will making practices and intentions. A comprehensive national database on the prevalence of will making in Australia was developed to identify who is or is not most likely to draw up a will and triggers for making and changing wills. A national survey of 2,405 adults aged above 18 years was administered by telephone in August and September 2012. Fifty-ni…
Opening up Options
Historically, social work has been aligned with those in society who are vulnerable or are dangerous to others. The ideal, if not always the reality, for the profession is to ensure that their view
Will‐making prevalence and patterns in Australia
This article provides evidence of the prevalence of wills and the principles underpinning the intended distribution of estates in Australia. Intentions around wealth transfers and the social norms that underpin them occur in the context of predicted extensive intergenerational transfers from the ageing baby boomer generation, policies of self provision and user pays for care in old age, broader views on what constitutes ‘family’, the increased im…
Professional development in social work
Janet Seden, Sarah Matthews, Mick McCormick and Alun Morgan, Routledge, Abingdon, 2011, 226 pp., £22.99 (pbk), ISBN 978-0-415-55336-0 This collection of 26 papers comes from the research and teachi
Managing older people's money
Current approaches to the assessment of cognitive capacity in many jurisdictions seek to balance older people's empowerment with their protection. These approaches incorporate a presumption of capacity, a decision-specific rather than global assessment of that capacity, and an obligation to provide the support needed for adults to make or communicate their own decisions. The implication is that older people are assisted to make decisions where po…
Understanding Network Intervention
Various approaches to network intervention outlined in the literature are described and related to practice experiences. A theoretical base addressing reasons for some of the perceived outcomes of network intervention is presented
Mapping Murky Waters
This paper describes an exploratory study designed to develop descriptive categories of supervisory behaviours and content in formal one-to-one supervisory sessions. These categories are used as tools to measure supervisory practice across fields and methods. The results are discussed and some implications for practice are made
Developing and Using Evaluation Guidelines for Final Practicum
This article describes the development and use of new evaluation guidelines which specify required performance levels on practicums. Their usefulness is presented in terms of defining learning agendas for placement and in distinguishing between passing and unsatisfactory performances. The relationship of the specific guidelines to the global assessment usually made by field educators is discussed. Problems still remain in using these guidelines t…
Social Work with the Elderly
The literature on social work practice with elderly people gives recognition to the social processes which constrain older people, but there is little attempt to identify the connections among socio-economic and political organisation, power relationships and disadvantage in old age. This paper asserts that social work with older people must begin with an analysis that focuses on the impact of class, gender and power relationships in structuring …
A model of substitute decision-making
Substitute decisions are those made on behalf of people who are not able to make decisions for themselves. From an ethical point of view it is important that substitute decision-making involving another person's health and well-being be approached methodically. The decision-making model outlined in this article was developed during a study which investigated substitute menstrual management decision-making for young women who had intellectual disa…
Framing the Rational in Fieldwork
Participation and Older People
Increasing older people's participation in society is important in ageing policies worldwide. There is a need to understand the challenges for health professionals of transforming policy on participation into liberating social change practices on the ground. This paper explores the meaning, theory and practice of participation. It uses the example of a “work in progress” project that has attempted to address structural barriers to older people's …
I know I signed something
This purpose of this paper is to report findings that older people are legally vulnerable when entering an aged care facility, that social workers lack knowledge of the legal aspects of this move and do not necessarily view this information as core to their practice. The structure of social work services mirror the disjuncture older people and their families experience at this time and this may, in part, explain social work's lack of attention to…
Minding the money
Managing the assets of older people is a common and potentially complex task of informal care with legal, financial, cultural, political and family dimensions. Older people are increasingly recognised as having significant assets, but the family, the state, service providers and the market have competing interests in their use. Increased policy interest in self-provision and user-charges for services underline the importance of asset management i…
Access to assets
This paper draws upon findings from a secondary analysis of suspected financial abuse cases in files of the Guardianship and Administration Tribunal in Queensland, Australia. The paper explores the association between formal and semi‐formal asset management arrangements and suspected financial abuse cases. The role of families as formal asset managers is also considered
Managing older people’s assets
This paper explores some of the issues relating to asset management for older people in non-urban Australia using data from a research program that is seeking to gain improved understanding of the prevalence and nature of asset management practices on behalf of older Australians. It recognises the relevant issues in relation to rurality identified in the literature, some of the complexities of succession planning and managing rural assets, partic…
Understanding financial elder abuse in families
The aim of this paper is to stimulate theoretical thought about financial elder abuse within families, by exploring the potential of ‘routine activities theory’ for raising our understanding of, and response to, its occurrences. Research into financial elder abuse, defined as the illegal or improper use of a person's finances or property by another person, has tended to emphasise the abusive event and the associated risk factors. ‘Routine activit…
Research Note
Family involvement in managing the financial assets of older people is an area of policy and practice importance. This importance relates to the complexity of older people’s assets, systems of paying for care and concerns around substitute decision-making and financial abuse. Although a common task of informal care, little is known about older people’s experiences and wishes in relation to asset management. This paper reports on a qualitative stu…
Ethical challenges of life story research with ex‐prisoners with intellectual disability
This paper outlines the ethical considerations when engaging in life story research with ex‐prisoners with intellectual disability. Based on a study conducted in Queensland, Australia, the authors explore some of the challenges that have arisen through the lens of principle‐based ethics. The significant disadvantage experienced by ex‐prisoners with intellectual disability warrants further attention by social researchers, and care must be taken no…
Outcomes of training in supervision
There is little controlled research on the impact of supervisor training on supervision. The current study examined the effects of supervision training in a sample of 46 supervisor–supervisee pairs of mental health practitioners. It compared Immediate 2-day workshop training of the pair, a wait-list control in which workshop training was delayed 3 months, and a condition in which supervisors were trained 3 months before their partners (Split). Be…
Longevity and Social Change in Australia
Longevity and Social Change in Australia Allan Borowski, Sol Encel and Elizabeth Ozanne (Eds) Sydney, University of New South Wales Press, 2007 x + 397 pp., ISBN: 9780868408897, $59.95 (paperback)
Older People and Their Assets
Following a 10-year research program around assets and ageing, the present paper summarises the work done, and outlines the major findings from the perspectives of older people, carers, and service providers. The research has explored the roles and practices of family caregivers in managing older people's assets, the experiences of older people who receive such assistance, the factors associated with the financial abuse of older people with and w…
Life Story Work and Social Work Practice
In common with other professions social workers have the power to articulate certain ‘‘truths’’ about the people who use their services (Hare Mustin, 1994). These knowledge statements about people, often situated in case files may become the only background information of the lived experience for people with disability (Gillman, Swain, & Heyman, 1997). Social workers need to develop interviewing, assessment and recording practices that give prece…
Effective Responses to Offenders with Intellectual Disabilities
Despite policies of deinstitutionalisation, many people with intellectual disabilities in developed western countries continue to live in mainstream institutional settings, such as correctional facilities, rather than in the community with support from disability services. This paper reports on the life stories of 10 people with intellectual disabilities, who had been imprisoned in adult correctional facilities in Queensland. The pathways taken b…
Managing older people's money
Current approaches to the assessment of cognitive capacity in many jurisdictions seek to balance older people's empowerment with their protection. These approaches incorporate a presumption of capacity, a decision-specific rather than global assessment of that capacity, and an obligation to provide the support needed for adults to make or communicate their own decisions. The implication is that older people are assisted to make decisions where po…
Professional development in social work
Janet Seden, Sarah Matthews, Mick McCormick and Alun Morgan, Routledge, Abingdon, 2011, 226 pp., £22.99 (pbk), ISBN 978-0-415-55336-0 This collection of 26 papers comes from the research and teachi
Social Work with Marginalised People Who have a Mild or Borderline Intellectual Disability
People with mild or borderline intellectual disabilities are a group of people who usually do not meet the eligibility criteria for specialist disability services, yet are high users of many generalist services, such as mental health, child protection, and criminal justice systems. They may traverse many services, often entering, exiting, and returning to the same service providers with few positive results. This article explores the practice app…
Making the Most of Field Placement
Recognising and responding to financial abuse in residential aged care
Purpose Responding to suspected financial abuse in residential aged care provides particular challenges to care managers. This paper aims to explore responses to financial abuse by care managers and the knowledge, policies and principles that guide practice in this context. Design/methodology/approach The research is part of a larger project exploring financial asset management and financial abuse in residential aged care in Australia. The themat…
Perceptions and employment intentions among aged care nurses and nursing assistants from diverse cultural backgrounds
Psychology (29 works) · Political science (26 works) · Medicine (25 works) · Sociology (25 works) · Public relations (17 works) · Business (15 works) · Gerontology (11 works) · Healthcare innovation and challenges (10 works) · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving (10 works) · Psychiatry (10 works)