Lenard W Kaye
Biographic Data
| ID | 4102409 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lenard W Kaye |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lenard W |
| FAMILY NAME | Kaye |
| SIGNATURE | KAYE L W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Bryn Mawr College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 18 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
A community methodological protocol of a multisector collective impact collaboration to address older adult isolation in a rural county in the U.S
In 2019, a community collaborative of nearly 30 health care, social service, philanthropic, and government organizations came together to construct a community-wide plan to reduce older adult isolation in Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania. Although such collaborations have been pursued before, the current one has exceeded expectations, launched a promising pilot, and formed exciting ripple effects throughout the region's aging services landscape. A…
Substance Abuse Exposure Among Youth Being Raised by Grandparents in Rural Communities
This research describes the experiences of grandparents and other relatives living in rural Maine raising children affected by substance abuse. Stories and practice strategies are presented in the context of program evaluation findings from a three-year data collection effort consisting of survey protocols administered to caregivers and professionals receiving project services and semistructured interviews conducted with relative caregivers. Care…
Principles of Clinical Practice with Older Men
Older men are much less likely to be aware of community services available to them and they are less likely to utilize services generally. This underutilization is affected by the way in which social services are organized and how practitioners function within them. Since there are greater numbers of elderly women and women utilize services more readily, practice tends to be female-centered. It is important that gender-sensitive intervention proc…
Early Intervention Screening for Family Caregivers of Older Relatives in Primary Care Practices
The Maine Primary Partners in Caregiving project provides a prime example of how disparate community health, social service, and higher education institutions can build a successful rural service alliance for the purposes of screening for family members experiencing stress during the provision of care to impaired older relatives. Community primary care practices are featured as prime sites for the early identification of elder caregivers experien…
Assessing the Efficacy of a Self-Help Support Group Program for Older Women
Social systems of support are considered crucial in providing a buffer against the negative consequences of aging. Given the significance, in particular, of natural helping networks for bolstering the personal lives of older persons, this paper reports on a study which assesses the efficacy and identifies the most likely beneficiaries of a formal self-help delivery model charged with reconstructing an older woman's social support system. Original…
Supporting Patient Autonomy
This study examines the policies and procedures that home health care agencies have developed to handle the incapacitated patient and life-sustaining treatment decisions. Data collected from a survey of 154 home health care agency directors and interviews with 92 local agency staff (including nurses and social workers) and 67 patients confirmed that directors, staff, and patients agree that patients are informed about their legal rights. When ask…
Parallel Service Delivery in Community Long-Term Care
Using data collected in a state-wide study of adult day care (ADC) in Pennsylvania and indices of technicality, routinization and service provision, this study examined the interventive relationship between ADC program staff (n = 59) and participant caregivers, (n = 67). The analysis found the relationship between formal and informal networks to be one of parallel service delivery rather than complementary roles with caregivers providing a wider …
A Social Work Administration Model Curriculum in Computer Technology and Information Management
This paper presents a model Master's curriculum in information management.* It integrates the special repertoire of computer technologies, management information system strategies, and theoretical principles of direct relevance for social welfare administrators of the future. Such expertise will be needed to effectively discharge administrative decision making functions within increasingly complex human service organizations
Men as elder caregivers
Results are presented from a study that examined the relationship between gender orientation and the unique stresses and gratifications for men who are engaged in caregiving tasks traditionally performed by women. The men report having found emotional gratification an important motivating factor, and they tended to ascribe to themselves many affective traits usually associated with the female role
The Technology of Social Planning and Program Development
This paper presents the rationale and conceptual framework for an advocacy training model geared to social work administrators, program planners, analysts, and evaluators. The two-staged sequence places central importance on the acquisition of a range of technological skills grounded in the advocacy ethic. Macropractice training tools and techniques in social service administration, community organization, social planning, and program development…
Men as elder caregivers
Factors Affecting Nursing Home Patient Participation in a Volunteer Grievance Resolution Service
Critical preconditions for effective program performance with vulnerable popula tions are service visibility and staff commitment. These factors may be especially important for patient representative programs serving the elderly in long term care institutions. Data collected from 210 residents in 14 skilled nursing and health- related facilities and 24 volunteer providers of nursing home ombudsman services suggest factors that may influence patie…
Home Care for the Aged
To what extent do the efforts of relatives, friends, and professional caregivers coalesce or clash in serving the home-bound elderly? This article presents data suggesting that the influence of natural support networks on formal service provision may be negative at times. Results indicate that one set of home care services may be provided more frequently and more effectively by relatives and friends and another set more appropriately by professio…
Long Term Care Advocacy Delivery Systems
This paper reports the results of a national comparative study of nursing home ombudsman programs for the institutionalized elderly. Of recent origin, patient representative programs have received little critical assessment as to their success in improving the quality of life of America's most vulnerable aged. At the same time, anticipated increases in the number of institutionalized aged coupled with current austerity measures in the health and …
Community Monitoring of Nursing Home Care
Data obtained from a national population of state representatives of non-profit and proprietary nursing home associations (N =55) are used to identify normative stances taken by longterm care spokespersons. Findings fail to confirm the idea of community surveillance of patient care by nursing home ombudsmen on the part of proprietary long-term care association representatives. Non-profit spokespersons were significantly more likely to agree that …
Resolving Grievances in the Nursing Home
1. Antecedents of the Ombudsman Program 2. Structuring Quality Assurance Mechanisms for the Elderly in Long-Term Care 3. Study Methodology 4. The Ombudsman and the Complaint Grievance Process 5. What Do Ombudsmen Do? 6. Do Ombudsman Programs Get Results? 7. The Future of the Ombudsman
Volunteers as Ombudsmen for the Aged in Long-Stay Institutions
Community Representation and Empowerment in Long Term Care Settings
It is widely recognized that regulatory efforts outside of the nursing home have had relatively limited success in monitoring patient care complaints (New York State Moreland Act Commission, 1975; Weatherby, 1975). As a result, the public at large and an increasing number of policy analysts have aggressively called for the initiation of alternative long term care monitoring strategies (Regan, 1977; Linnane, 1977; Vladeck, 1980). One such recently…
Home Care for the Aged
To what extent do the efforts of relatives, friends, and professional caregivers coalesce or clash in serving the home-bound elderly? This article presents data suggesting that the influence of natural support networks on formal service provision may be negative at times. Results indicate that one set of home care services may be provided more frequently and more effectively by relatives and friends and another set more appropriately by professio…
Supporting Patient Autonomy
This study examines the policies and procedures that home health care agencies have developed to handle the incapacitated patient and life-sustaining treatment decisions. Data collected from a survey of 154 home health care agency directors and interviews with 92 local agency staff (including nurses and social workers) and 67 patients confirmed that directors, staff, and patients agree that patients are informed about their legal rights. When ask…
Men as elder caregivers
Substance Abuse Exposure Among Youth Being Raised by Grandparents in Rural Communities
This research describes the experiences of grandparents and other relatives living in rural Maine raising children affected by substance abuse. Stories and practice strategies are presented in the context of program evaluation findings from a three-year data collection effort consisting of survey protocols administered to caregivers and professionals receiving project services and semistructured interviews conducted with relative caregivers. Care…
Parallel Service Delivery in Community Long-Term Care
Using data collected in a state-wide study of adult day care (ADC) in Pennsylvania and indices of technicality, routinization and service provision, this study examined the interventive relationship between ADC program staff (n = 59) and participant caregivers, (n = 67). The analysis found the relationship between formal and informal networks to be one of parallel service delivery rather than complementary roles with caregivers providing a wider …
A Social Work Administration Model Curriculum in Computer Technology and Information Management
This paper presents a model Master's curriculum in information management.* It integrates the special repertoire of computer technologies, management information system strategies, and theoretical principles of direct relevance for social welfare administrators of the future. Such expertise will be needed to effectively discharge administrative decision making functions within increasingly complex human service organizations
The Technology of Social Planning and Program Development
This paper presents the rationale and conceptual framework for an advocacy training model geared to social work administrators, program planners, analysts, and evaluators. The two-staged sequence places central importance on the acquisition of a range of technological skills grounded in the advocacy ethic. Macropractice training tools and techniques in social service administration, community organization, social planning, and program development…
Community Representation and Empowerment in Long Term Care Settings
It is widely recognized that regulatory efforts outside of the nursing home have had relatively limited success in monitoring patient care complaints (New York State Moreland Act Commission, 1975; Weatherby, 1975). As a result, the public at large and an increasing number of policy analysts have aggressively called for the initiation of alternative long term care monitoring strategies (Regan, 1977; Linnane, 1977; Vladeck, 1980). One such recently…
Volunteers as Ombudsmen for the Aged in Long-Stay Institutions
Long Term Care Advocacy Delivery Systems
This paper reports the results of a national comparative study of nursing home ombudsman programs for the institutionalized elderly. Of recent origin, patient representative programs have received little critical assessment as to their success in improving the quality of life of America's most vulnerable aged. At the same time, anticipated increases in the number of institutionalized aged coupled with current austerity measures in the health and …
Community Monitoring of Nursing Home Care
Data obtained from a national population of state representatives of non-profit and proprietary nursing home associations (N =55) are used to identify normative stances taken by longterm care spokespersons. Findings fail to confirm the idea of community surveillance of patient care by nursing home ombudsmen on the part of proprietary long-term care association representatives. Non-profit spokespersons were significantly more likely to agree that …
Resolving Grievances in the Nursing Home
1. Antecedents of the Ombudsman Program 2. Structuring Quality Assurance Mechanisms for the Elderly in Long-Term Care 3. Study Methodology 4. The Ombudsman and the Complaint Grievance Process 5. What Do Ombudsmen Do? 6. Do Ombudsman Programs Get Results? 7. The Future of the Ombudsman
Home Care for the Aged
To what extent do the efforts of relatives, friends, and professional caregivers coalesce or clash in serving the home-bound elderly? This article presents data suggesting that the influence of natural support networks on formal service provision may be negative at times. Results indicate that one set of home care services may be provided more frequently and more effectively by relatives and friends and another set more appropriately by professio…
Factors Affecting Nursing Home Patient Participation in a Volunteer Grievance Resolution Service
Critical preconditions for effective program performance with vulnerable popula tions are service visibility and staff commitment. These factors may be especially important for patient representative programs serving the elderly in long term care institutions. Data collected from 210 residents in 14 skilled nursing and health- related facilities and 24 volunteer providers of nursing home ombudsman services suggest factors that may influence patie…
Men as elder caregivers
Results are presented from a study that examined the relationship between gender orientation and the unique stresses and gratifications for men who are engaged in caregiving tasks traditionally performed by women. The men report having found emotional gratification an important motivating factor, and they tended to ascribe to themselves many affective traits usually associated with the female role
The Technology of Social Planning and Program Development
This paper presents the rationale and conceptual framework for an advocacy training model geared to social work administrators, program planners, analysts, and evaluators. The two-staged sequence places central importance on the acquisition of a range of technological skills grounded in the advocacy ethic. Macropractice training tools and techniques in social service administration, community organization, social planning, and program development…
Men as elder caregivers
A Social Work Administration Model Curriculum in Computer Technology and Information Management
This paper presents a model Master's curriculum in information management.* It integrates the special repertoire of computer technologies, management information system strategies, and theoretical principles of direct relevance for social welfare administrators of the future. Such expertise will be needed to effectively discharge administrative decision making functions within increasingly complex human service organizations
Parallel Service Delivery in Community Long-Term Care
Using data collected in a state-wide study of adult day care (ADC) in Pennsylvania and indices of technicality, routinization and service provision, this study examined the interventive relationship between ADC program staff (n = 59) and participant caregivers, (n = 67). The analysis found the relationship between formal and informal networks to be one of parallel service delivery rather than complementary roles with caregivers providing a wider …
Assessing the Efficacy of a Self-Help Support Group Program for Older Women
Social systems of support are considered crucial in providing a buffer against the negative consequences of aging. Given the significance, in particular, of natural helping networks for bolstering the personal lives of older persons, this paper reports on a study which assesses the efficacy and identifies the most likely beneficiaries of a formal self-help delivery model charged with reconstructing an older woman's social support system. Original…
Supporting Patient Autonomy
This study examines the policies and procedures that home health care agencies have developed to handle the incapacitated patient and life-sustaining treatment decisions. Data collected from a survey of 154 home health care agency directors and interviews with 92 local agency staff (including nurses and social workers) and 67 patients confirmed that directors, staff, and patients agree that patients are informed about their legal rights. When ask…
Early Intervention Screening for Family Caregivers of Older Relatives in Primary Care Practices
The Maine Primary Partners in Caregiving project provides a prime example of how disparate community health, social service, and higher education institutions can build a successful rural service alliance for the purposes of screening for family members experiencing stress during the provision of care to impaired older relatives. Community primary care practices are featured as prime sites for the early identification of elder caregivers experien…
Principles of Clinical Practice with Older Men
Older men are much less likely to be aware of community services available to them and they are less likely to utilize services generally. This underutilization is affected by the way in which social services are organized and how practitioners function within them. Since there are greater numbers of elderly women and women utilize services more readily, practice tends to be female-centered. It is important that gender-sensitive intervention proc…
Substance Abuse Exposure Among Youth Being Raised by Grandparents in Rural Communities
This research describes the experiences of grandparents and other relatives living in rural Maine raising children affected by substance abuse. Stories and practice strategies are presented in the context of program evaluation findings from a three-year data collection effort consisting of survey protocols administered to caregivers and professionals receiving project services and semistructured interviews conducted with relative caregivers. Care…
A community methodological protocol of a multisector collective impact collaboration to address older adult isolation in a rural county in the U.S
In 2019, a community collaborative of nearly 30 health care, social service, philanthropic, and government organizations came together to construct a community-wide plan to reduce older adult isolation in Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania. Although such collaborations have been pursued before, the current one has exceeded expectations, launched a promising pilot, and formed exciting ripple effects throughout the region's aging services landscape. A…
Business (13 works) · Medicine (13 works) · Political science (13 works) · Nursing (12 works) · Psychology (12 works) · Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes (10 works) · Public relations (8 works) · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving (7 works) · Gerontology (5 works) · Service (business (5 works)