Kathryn A Ellis
Biographic Data
| ID | 4450625 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kathryn A Ellis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kathryn A |
| FAMILY NAME | Ellis |
| SIGNATURE | ELLIS K A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bedfordshire |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9097-9037 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 142 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Trauma, resilience, and distress in post-revolution Egypt
These findings suggest the high need for evidence-based care in Egypt for trauma-related psychopathology. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved)
Changing Care: Applying the Transtheoretical Model of Change to Embed Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Long-Term Care Research in Canada
Healthcare policy reform is evident when considering the past, present and future of long-term care (LTC) in Canada. Some of the most pressing issues facing the LTC sector include the changing demographic composition in Canadian LTC homes, minimal consideration for the role of intersectionality in LTC data collection and analysis, and the expanding need to engage diverse participants and knowledge users. Using the Transtheoretical Model of Change…
The Support Person's Preferences and Perspectives of Physical Activity Programs for Older Adults With Cognitive Impairment
Objectives: Physical activity (PA) is beneficial for older adults' cognition. There is limited research investigating perspectives of support persons (SPs) of next-of-kins (NOKs) with cognitive impairment. This exploratory study aimed to investigate perspectives of SPs of older adults with Alzheimer's Dementia (AD) or Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI). Methods: A telephone survey of 213 SPs of NOKs from the Australian Imaging, Biomarkers and Lifest…
Ethnic Differences in Barriers and Enablers to Physical Activity Among Older Adults
Despite its well-known health benefits, most older adults do not commit to undertaking sufficient physical activity (PA). In this study we aimed to examine the perceived benefits of and barriers and enablers to PA from the perspectives of older Caucasian and Chinese adults living in Australia. Individual and group interviews with 17 Caucasian (mean age: 72.8 years) and 47 Chinese adults (mean age: 74.0 years) were conducted and analysed using the…
Personalisation, ambiguity and conflict: Matland’s model of policy implementation and the ‘transformation’ of adult social care in England
The article draws on Matland’s (1995) modelling of policy implementation to investigate the personalisation of adult social care in England. The shift from policy formation to enactment by local authorities is linked to a move from ‘symbolic’ to ‘political’ implementation. Successive studies, however, highlight certain enduring features of local authorities as sites of contradiction and dissent in adult social care, particularly on the frontline.…
A conceptual framework for research on subjective cognitive decline in preclinical Alzheimer's disease
Professional Discretion and Adult Social Work: Exploring Its Nature and Scope on the Front Line of Personalisation
Drawing on studies spanning the restructuring of community care in the early 1990s, and subsequent addition of Direct Payments, through to the piloting of individual budgets and implementation of personalised support, this article seeks to tease out those lessons which may assist in understanding the exercise of front line discretion in adult social work within the new organisational environments created by personalisation. A typology of front li…
Clinical utility of the cogstate brief battery in identifying cognitive impairment in mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer’s disease
Results of this study suggest that the CogState learning/working memory composite score is reduced significantly in CI and AD, correlate well with measures of disease classification and are useful in identifying memory impairment related to MCI- and AD
Street‐level Bureaucracy’ Revisited: The Changing Face of Frontline Discretion in Adult Social Care in England
This reassessment of the continuing significance of Lipsky's (1980 ) work on ‘street‐level bureaucracy’ for frontline decision making is based on a retrospective review of the author's research on assessment practice in adult social care in England. The studies span the past two decades during which time successive governments have restructured and modernized social services departments. When these were established in 1970, they represented the h…
Direct Payments and Social Work Practice: The Significance of 'Street-Level Bureaucracy' in Determining Eligibility
Sponsored both by governments intent upon fiscal restraint and user movements keen to extend choice and control, ‘cash-for-care’ schemes are replacing direct services across mature welfare states. Recent legislation on direct payments, which has enacted the UK version of cash-for-care, has attracted considerable research interest in the UK. Previous studies point to a number of tensions for social workers in the implementation process which give …
Disability rights in practice: The relationship between human rights and social rights in contemporary social care
Using the contemporary arena of social care as an example, this article challenges the either/or dichotomy set up by some disability writers and activists between the favoured civil and human rights on the one hand and discredited social rights on the other. Rather, the article concludes, claims to these differing types of right are mutually reinforcing and can be mobilised strategically in disabled people’s struggles for greater social justice. …
Promoting rights or avoiding litigation? The introduction of the human rights act 1998 into adult social care in England
Rights to social care in England have traditionally been highly restricted. By placing positive obligations on social care agencies and practitioners to make provision for vulnerable adults, the incorporation of the European Convention on Human Rights into UK law through the Human Rights Act 1998 promised to extend their reach. Yet transforming a set of largely procedural rights into something more substantive requires the active intervention of …
Welfare and Bodily Order: Theorizing Transitions in Corporeal Discourse
This chapter will use the fourfold taxonomy of bodily order developed by Bryan Turner (1996) as a framework for discussing the corporeal discourses of welfare with which this book is concerned. The first section outlines Turner’s approach and its relevance to social policy analysis. Subsequent sections deal in turn with each of the three discourses already outlined by Hartley Dean in the Introduction to this volume, namely ‘physical efficiency’, …
Needs Assessment, Street‐level Bureaucracy and the New Community Care
In the wake of the Seebohm reforms of the personal social services, a number of studies were carried out in the 1970s to explore the role of frontline professionals in identifying and meeting social need. A common finding was that social workers behaved like “street‐level bureaucrats”, using their discretionary authority defensively to manage an otherwise overwhelming workload. In the 1990s, top‐down assessment and care management systems were pu…
The Squint from the Chair’: Speaker Sir John Trevor, C. 1637–1717
Street‐level Bureaucracy’ Revisited: The Changing Face of Frontline Discretion in Adult Social Care in England
This reassessment of the continuing significance of Lipsky's (1980 ) work on ‘street‐level bureaucracy’ for frontline decision making is based on a retrospective review of the author's research on assessment practice in adult social care in England. The studies span the past two decades during which time successive governments have restructured and modernized social services departments. When these were established in 1970, they represented the h…
Direct Payments and Social Work Practice: The Significance of 'Street-Level Bureaucracy' in Determining Eligibility
Sponsored both by governments intent upon fiscal restraint and user movements keen to extend choice and control, ‘cash-for-care’ schemes are replacing direct services across mature welfare states. Recent legislation on direct payments, which has enacted the UK version of cash-for-care, has attracted considerable research interest in the UK. Previous studies point to a number of tensions for social workers in the implementation process which give …
Needs Assessment, Street‐level Bureaucracy and the New Community Care
In the wake of the Seebohm reforms of the personal social services, a number of studies were carried out in the 1970s to explore the role of frontline professionals in identifying and meeting social need. A common finding was that social workers behaved like “street‐level bureaucrats”, using their discretionary authority defensively to manage an otherwise overwhelming workload. In the 1990s, top‐down assessment and care management systems were pu…
Personalisation, ambiguity and conflict: Matland’s model of policy implementation and the ‘transformation’ of adult social care in England
The article draws on Matland’s (1995) modelling of policy implementation to investigate the personalisation of adult social care in England. The shift from policy formation to enactment by local authorities is linked to a move from ‘symbolic’ to ‘political’ implementation. Successive studies, however, highlight certain enduring features of local authorities as sites of contradiction and dissent in adult social care, particularly on the frontline.…
Professional Discretion and Adult Social Work: Exploring Its Nature and Scope on the Front Line of Personalisation
Drawing on studies spanning the restructuring of community care in the early 1990s, and subsequent addition of Direct Payments, through to the piloting of individual budgets and implementation of personalised support, this article seeks to tease out those lessons which may assist in understanding the exercise of front line discretion in adult social work within the new organisational environments created by personalisation. A typology of front li…
Disability rights in practice: The relationship between human rights and social rights in contemporary social care
Using the contemporary arena of social care as an example, this article challenges the either/or dichotomy set up by some disability writers and activists between the favoured civil and human rights on the one hand and discredited social rights on the other. Rather, the article concludes, claims to these differing types of right are mutually reinforcing and can be mobilised strategically in disabled people’s struggles for greater social justice. …
Promoting rights or avoiding litigation? The introduction of the human rights act 1998 into adult social care in England
Rights to social care in England have traditionally been highly restricted. By placing positive obligations on social care agencies and practitioners to make provision for vulnerable adults, the incorporation of the European Convention on Human Rights into UK law through the Human Rights Act 1998 promised to extend their reach. Yet transforming a set of largely procedural rights into something more substantive requires the active intervention of …
The Squint from the Chair’: Speaker Sir John Trevor, C. 1637–1717
Needs Assessment, Street‐level Bureaucracy and the New Community Care
In the wake of the Seebohm reforms of the personal social services, a number of studies were carried out in the 1970s to explore the role of frontline professionals in identifying and meeting social need. A common finding was that social workers behaved like “street‐level bureaucrats”, using their discretionary authority defensively to manage an otherwise overwhelming workload. In the 1990s, top‐down assessment and care management systems were pu…
Welfare and Bodily Order: Theorizing Transitions in Corporeal Discourse
This chapter will use the fourfold taxonomy of bodily order developed by Bryan Turner (1996) as a framework for discussing the corporeal discourses of welfare with which this book is concerned. The first section outlines Turner’s approach and its relevance to social policy analysis. Subsequent sections deal in turn with each of the three discourses already outlined by Hartley Dean in the Introduction to this volume, namely ‘physical efficiency’, …
Promoting rights or avoiding litigation? The introduction of the human rights act 1998 into adult social care in England
Rights to social care in England have traditionally been highly restricted. By placing positive obligations on social care agencies and practitioners to make provision for vulnerable adults, the incorporation of the European Convention on Human Rights into UK law through the Human Rights Act 1998 promised to extend their reach. Yet transforming a set of largely procedural rights into something more substantive requires the active intervention of …
Disability rights in practice: The relationship between human rights and social rights in contemporary social care
Using the contemporary arena of social care as an example, this article challenges the either/or dichotomy set up by some disability writers and activists between the favoured civil and human rights on the one hand and discredited social rights on the other. Rather, the article concludes, claims to these differing types of right are mutually reinforcing and can be mobilised strategically in disabled people’s struggles for greater social justice. …
Direct Payments and Social Work Practice: The Significance of 'Street-Level Bureaucracy' in Determining Eligibility
Sponsored both by governments intent upon fiscal restraint and user movements keen to extend choice and control, ‘cash-for-care’ schemes are replacing direct services across mature welfare states. Recent legislation on direct payments, which has enacted the UK version of cash-for-care, has attracted considerable research interest in the UK. Previous studies point to a number of tensions for social workers in the implementation process which give …
Street‐level Bureaucracy’ Revisited: The Changing Face of Frontline Discretion in Adult Social Care in England
This reassessment of the continuing significance of Lipsky's (1980 ) work on ‘street‐level bureaucracy’ for frontline decision making is based on a retrospective review of the author's research on assessment practice in adult social care in England. The studies span the past two decades during which time successive governments have restructured and modernized social services departments. When these were established in 1970, they represented the h…
Clinical utility of the cogstate brief battery in identifying cognitive impairment in mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer’s disease
Results of this study suggest that the CogState learning/working memory composite score is reduced significantly in CI and AD, correlate well with measures of disease classification and are useful in identifying memory impairment related to MCI- and AD
A conceptual framework for research on subjective cognitive decline in preclinical Alzheimer's disease
Professional Discretion and Adult Social Work: Exploring Its Nature and Scope on the Front Line of Personalisation
Drawing on studies spanning the restructuring of community care in the early 1990s, and subsequent addition of Direct Payments, through to the piloting of individual budgets and implementation of personalised support, this article seeks to tease out those lessons which may assist in understanding the exercise of front line discretion in adult social work within the new organisational environments created by personalisation. A typology of front li…
Personalisation, ambiguity and conflict: Matland’s model of policy implementation and the ‘transformation’ of adult social care in England
The article draws on Matland’s (1995) modelling of policy implementation to investigate the personalisation of adult social care in England. The shift from policy formation to enactment by local authorities is linked to a move from ‘symbolic’ to ‘political’ implementation. Successive studies, however, highlight certain enduring features of local authorities as sites of contradiction and dissent in adult social care, particularly on the frontline.…
The Support Person's Preferences and Perspectives of Physical Activity Programs for Older Adults With Cognitive Impairment
Objectives: Physical activity (PA) is beneficial for older adults' cognition. There is limited research investigating perspectives of support persons (SPs) of next-of-kins (NOKs) with cognitive impairment. This exploratory study aimed to investigate perspectives of SPs of older adults with Alzheimer's Dementia (AD) or Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI). Methods: A telephone survey of 213 SPs of NOKs from the Australian Imaging, Biomarkers and Lifest…
Ethnic Differences in Barriers and Enablers to Physical Activity Among Older Adults
Despite its well-known health benefits, most older adults do not commit to undertaking sufficient physical activity (PA). In this study we aimed to examine the perceived benefits of and barriers and enablers to PA from the perspectives of older Caucasian and Chinese adults living in Australia. Individual and group interviews with 17 Caucasian (mean age: 72.8 years) and 47 Chinese adults (mean age: 74.0 years) were conducted and analysed using the…
Trauma, resilience, and distress in post-revolution Egypt
These findings suggest the high need for evidence-based care in Egypt for trauma-related psychopathology. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved)
Changing Care: Applying the Transtheoretical Model of Change to Embed Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Long-Term Care Research in Canada
Healthcare policy reform is evident when considering the past, present and future of long-term care (LTC) in Canada. Some of the most pressing issues facing the LTC sector include the changing demographic composition in Canadian LTC homes, minimal consideration for the role of intersectionality in LTC data collection and analysis, and the expanding need to engage diverse participants and knowledge users. Using the Transtheoretical Model of Change…
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