Denise Tanner
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 4250198 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Denise Tanner |
| PRENOMES | Denise |
| SOBRENOME | Tanner |
| ASSINATURA | TANNER D |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Birmingham |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6944-7367 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 30 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 79 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 30 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1977 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
‘It Was About as Far at Odds With Our Provider Failure Protocol…as You Can Get’. Untangling Care Policy When Care Homes Close
This article takes an extreme case ‐ the emergency closure of a care home on a Friday evening ‐ to explore how a lack of coordination between national and local stakeholders led to a brutalising experience for frail residents and social care staff. Care home closures sit at the interface of multiple policy domains including funding, infrastructure, staffing, quality assurance and regulation. Drawing on interviews with managers and wider stakehold…
Continued Policy Drift on the Funding of Adult Social Care in England
In 2021 the UK Government announced charging reforms relating to adult social care in England. The reforms would have ended a prolonged period of policy drift but were postponed in 2022 and cancelled in 2024. This paper reports on how different stakeholder groups perceived the reforms (and their delay), how they had been preparing for the implementation of the reforms, and identifies lessons for the future. Semi‐structured interviews were conduct…
Being that hopeful person’
Drawing on the findings of research in adult teams in two local authorities in England, this article examines what social workers with older people do, how this contributes to older people’s well-being, and the impact of the social and organizational context of practice. Researchers observed social workers in their practice, interviewed social workers, older people, family carers, and other workers, analysed older people’s records, and examined s…
Understanding older people’s experiences of care home closure through the lenses of precarity and transition
This article addresses a gap in current evidence by examining the experiences of older people and families when care homes close. We adopt the dual lenses of the precarity of ageing and adaptation to transition to facilitate understanding of the structural and experiential dimensions of care home closure. We argue that the experiences of older people and their families of care home closure are a largely hidden example of the increasing precarity …
Access to Social Farms for People With Dementia Living at Home in England
While much of the care literature has focused on the benefits of social farms for people living with dementia, less research has examined the accessibility of this form of support. Conducted in England between 2023 and 2024, this study examined access to social farms by people living with dementia using Levesque’s conceptual framework of access as a navigational guide. We surveyed 32 social farm managers, held four online focus groups—two with ca…
When it comes to carers, you've got to be grateful that you've got a carer coming’
The number of older self-funders in England is growing in the context of tight eligibility criteria and fixed financial thresholds to access statutory adult social care. Older people who self-fund their social care fall largely under the radar of statutory services and of research. Our study aimed to listen closely to the stories that older people tell about finding, managing and paying for their care. We interviewed 65 older people living in the…
“Trying to Find People to Fit the Tech…”
Digital technology is expected to improve care and address significant service pressures within the National Health Service and social care though evidence on how their implementation might be optimised is lacking. This study explores how one such example, home-based sensors with artificial intelligence capabilities, was implemented in English social care to identify changes in behaviour that indicate the onset of potentially more serious issues.…
A Scoping Review of the Costs, Consequences, and Wider Impacts of Residential Care Home Closures in a UK Context
Background. Between 2015 and 2020, 1,578 care homes in the UK closed, displacing nearly 50,000 older and disabled people with very significant care and support needs. It is widely thought that relocation can have a significant impact on the health and well-being of older people. Yet, evidence is limited due to sensitivity and logistical difficulties with data collection. This study aimed to review the published literature in order to (i) identify…
Casting Light on the Distinctive Contribution of Social Work in Multidisciplinary Teams for Older People
The current policy emphasis in adult social care in England is on promoting independence, preventing or delaying the need for more intensive support and the provision of personalised services. However, there is little evidence available on how social workers (SWs) identify and meet the complex needs of older service users in practice. In this article, we present findings from a study of innovative social work practice with older adults in England…
Implementing Asset-Based Integrated Care
The evidence presented in this paper demonstrates that the implementation of LAC, as with most complex service innovations, is dependent on the interplay of organisational and people-based components. In particular, successful implementation depends on maintaining a common vision of what an intervention will achieve and how it will work in practice, continual engagement with the political and organisational leaders of influence, positively addres…
Care Ethics, Democratic Citizenship and the State
From a political angle, the concept of care might contribute substantially more to democratic discourse and the creation of caring arrangements if different ideas and vocabularies of care – such as those represented by ‘affective equality’ (Lynch & Baker 2009), the ‘ethics of the flesh’ (Bacchi & Beasly 2004; Beasly & Bacchi 2012) and ‘social reproduction’ – were taken into account. While these approaches have a common political and moral objecti…
The Love That Dare Not Speak Its Name’
The concept of compassion has little prominence in social work literature or in social work curricula, in contrast with those of nursing. This is despite compassion being a valued attribute of social workers from the perspectives of service users. This article considers the meaning of compassion, possible reasons for its absence from social work parlance and its potential contribution to social work practice. Whereas empathy is seen as comprising…
Participatory research meets validated outcome measures
Funding for care service research is increasingly subject to the satisfaction of two requirements: public involvement and adoption of validated outcome tools. This study identifies competing paradigms within these requirements and reveals significant challenges faced by researchers who seek to satisfy them. The focus here is on a study co‐produced between academic researchers and people with experience of adult social care services. It examines t…
Opening communicative space
Current participatory research literature describes different approaches to involving service users in research, draws out lessons to be learned from the process and begins to address the difficult question of the impact of service user involvement on the research outcomes. However, very limited attention has been given to analysing in detail 'what goes on' in interviews carried out by service users or considering what difference their interactio…
Paying our own way’
Adult social care policy in England is premised on the concept of personalisation that purports to place individuals in control of the services they receive through market-based mechanisms of support, such as direct payments and personal budgets. However, the demographic context of an ageing population and the economic and political context of austerity have endorsed further rationing of resources. Increasing numbers of people now pay for their o…
Making It Real’
Service user and carer involvement (SUCI) in social work education in England is required by the profession's regulator, the Health and Care Professions Council. However, a recent study of eighty-three Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) in England reported that, despite considerable progress in SUCI, there is no evidence that the learning derived from it is being transferred to social work practice. In this article, we describe a study that exa…
Understanding and Improving Older People's Experiences of Service Transitions
This paper examines the concept of transition and its centrality to later life experiences. It considers how an enhanced and more user-centred understanding of transitions can be harnessed to improve older people's experiences of moving into and between health and social care services. It focuses, in particular, on the neglected dimension of subjective experiences of transition and considers how social workers can engage with older people's emoti…
Gerontological Social Work
Over the last twenty years, successive welfare policies have undermined gerontological social work as a specialist area of social work practice. The UK's ageing population offers an opportunity for gerontological social work to rebuild itself. Increasing numbers of older people with long-term conditions, significant growth in the population of family carers and enhanced community-based living for people with long-term needs combine to reposition …
On the Edge of a New Frontier
This article explores the readiness of gerontological social work in the UK for meeting the challenges of an ageing society by investigating the focus on work with older people in social work education and the scope of gerontological social work research. The discussion draws on findings from two exploratory studies: a survey of qualifying master's programmes in England and a survey of the content relating to older people over a six-year period i…
Look after yourself
The idea of active ageing retains a broad appeal and has a global reach, particularly through the influence of the World Health Organisation (WHO). However, in practice it has been the subject of criticism. In this article, it is argued that the incorporation of active ageing into the policy agendas of the welfare systems for older people should be understood by reference to the perceived effects of demographic trends on demand for services. In t…
Identity, selfhood and dementia
Dementia has been identified as a policy priority area for the European Union (EU). Given projected figures on the global increase in dementia over the next few decades, working with people with dementia is likely to become an even more prominent area of activity for social workers in older people's services. Recent research has begun to engage with the subjective experiences of people with dementia and there is considerable focus within nursing …
For the Sake of their Health
Facilitating older service users’ requirements for access to or re-engagement in social networks following hospital discharge is recognized in social care analysis and policy as critically important. This is because of the associated benefits for restoring physical health and psychological well-being. However, it tends to be a neglected dimension of current social care/intermediate care. Our paper draws on a qualitative study of voluntary sector …
Promoting the well-being of older people
Traditional assumptions of old age as a time of need and dependency are increasingly being replaced by more positive constructions of older people as active agents and resources for, rather than recipients of, welfare. The emphasis of social policy has shifted from an almost exclusive concern with meeting ‘high-level’ need and responding to crisis to broader concerns with promoting quality of life and enhancing well-being. This article considers …
MacDonald's Party
Journal Article MacDonald’s Party: Labour Identities and Crisis, 1922–1932 Get access Duncan Tanner Duncan Tanner Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 119, Issue 480, February 2004, Pages 153–155, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/119.480.153 Published: 01 February 2004
Older People and Access to Care
Journal Article Older People and Access to Care Get access Denise Tanner Denise Tanner Denise Tanner is a Senior Lecturer in Social Work at Coventry University and a member of Coventry Centre for Social Justice. Correspondence to Denise Tanner, School of Health and Social Sciences, Coventry University, Priory Street, Coventry CV1 5FB, UK. E‐mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The …
Look after yourself
The idea of active ageing retains a broad appeal and has a global reach, particularly through the influence of the World Health Organisation (WHO). However, in practice it has been the subject of criticism. In this article, it is argued that the incorporation of active ageing into the policy agendas of the welfare systems for older people should be understood by reference to the perceived effects of demographic trends on demand for services. In t…
Gerontological Social Work
Over the last twenty years, successive welfare policies have undermined gerontological social work as a specialist area of social work practice. The UK's ageing population offers an opportunity for gerontological social work to rebuild itself. Increasing numbers of older people with long-term conditions, significant growth in the population of family carers and enhanced community-based living for people with long-term needs combine to reposition …
Sustaining the self in later life
This paper emanates from a small-scale qualitative study, currently in progress, looking at the implications for older people of decisions made by a social services department that they are ineligible for service provision. While the operation of eligibility criteria in the UK has been shown to exclude an increasing number of prospective users from receiving a service, little is known about how those refused a service contend with their difficult…
Empowerment and care management
This paper is concerned with the policy and practice of care management, that is, the system for assessing care needs and arranging services to meet them, developed under the legislative framework of National Health Service (NHS) and Community Care Act 1990. The paper takes as its starting point the contrast between the rhetoric of service user empowerment in professional training, particularly of social workers, with the disempowering realities …
On the Edge of a New Frontier
This article explores the readiness of gerontological social work in the UK for meeting the challenges of an ageing society by investigating the focus on work with older people in social work education and the scope of gerontological social work research. The discussion draws on findings from two exploratory studies: a survey of qualifying master's programmes in England and a survey of the content relating to older people over a six-year period i…
The Love That Dare Not Speak Its Name’
The concept of compassion has little prominence in social work literature or in social work curricula, in contrast with those of nursing. This is despite compassion being a valued attribute of social workers from the perspectives of service users. This article considers the meaning of compassion, possible reasons for its absence from social work parlance and its potential contribution to social work practice. Whereas empathy is seen as comprising…
Older People and Access to Care
Journal Article Older People and Access to Care Get access Denise Tanner Denise Tanner Denise Tanner is a Senior Lecturer in Social Work at Coventry University and a member of Coventry Centre for Social Justice. Correspondence to Denise Tanner, School of Health and Social Sciences, Coventry University, Priory Street, Coventry CV1 5FB, UK. E‐mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The …
Participatory research meets validated outcome measures
Funding for care service research is increasingly subject to the satisfaction of two requirements: public involvement and adoption of validated outcome tools. This study identifies competing paradigms within these requirements and reveals significant challenges faced by researchers who seek to satisfy them. The focus here is on a study co‐produced between academic researchers and people with experience of adult social care services. It examines t…
Opening communicative space
Current participatory research literature describes different approaches to involving service users in research, draws out lessons to be learned from the process and begins to address the difficult question of the impact of service user involvement on the research outcomes. However, very limited attention has been given to analysing in detail 'what goes on' in interviews carried out by service users or considering what difference their interactio…
Identity, selfhood and dementia
Dementia has been identified as a policy priority area for the European Union (EU). Given projected figures on the global increase in dementia over the next few decades, working with people with dementia is likely to become an even more prominent area of activity for social workers in older people's services. Recent research has begun to engage with the subjective experiences of people with dementia and there is considerable focus within nursing …
Paying our own way’
Adult social care policy in England is premised on the concept of personalisation that purports to place individuals in control of the services they receive through market-based mechanisms of support, such as direct payments and personal budgets. However, the demographic context of an ageing population and the economic and political context of austerity have endorsed further rationing of resources. Increasing numbers of people now pay for their o…
Promoting the well-being of older people
Traditional assumptions of old age as a time of need and dependency are increasingly being replaced by more positive constructions of older people as active agents and resources for, rather than recipients of, welfare. The emphasis of social policy has shifted from an almost exclusive concern with meeting ‘high-level’ need and responding to crisis to broader concerns with promoting quality of life and enhancing well-being. This article considers …
Casting Light on the Distinctive Contribution of Social Work in Multidisciplinary Teams for Older People
The current policy emphasis in adult social care in England is on promoting independence, preventing or delaying the need for more intensive support and the provision of personalised services. However, there is little evidence available on how social workers (SWs) identify and meet the complex needs of older service users in practice. In this article, we present findings from a study of innovative social work practice with older adults in England…
Understanding and Improving Older People's Experiences of Service Transitions
This paper examines the concept of transition and its centrality to later life experiences. It considers how an enhanced and more user-centred understanding of transitions can be harnessed to improve older people's experiences of moving into and between health and social care services. It focuses, in particular, on the neglected dimension of subjective experiences of transition and considers how social workers can engage with older people's emoti…
The jeopardy of risk
The concept of risk occupies a pivotal position in current social work practice, yet there is surprisingly little written on the subject. This is particularly so in relation to social work with adults, with the exception of two recent volumes edited by Kemshall and Pritchard (1996 and 1997). This paper seeks to add to the literature in a way that will assist practitioners to understand the emphasis on risk in current practice, to appreciate the p…
When it comes to carers, you've got to be grateful that you've got a carer coming’
The number of older self-funders in England is growing in the context of tight eligibility criteria and fixed financial thresholds to access statutory adult social care. Older people who self-fund their social care fall largely under the radar of statutory services and of research. Our study aimed to listen closely to the stories that older people tell about finding, managing and paying for their care. We interviewed 65 older people living in the…
Implementing Asset-Based Integrated Care
The evidence presented in this paper demonstrates that the implementation of LAC, as with most complex service innovations, is dependent on the interplay of organisational and people-based components. In particular, successful implementation depends on maintaining a common vision of what an intervention will achieve and how it will work in practice, continual engagement with the political and organisational leaders of influence, positively addres…
Making It Real’
Service user and carer involvement (SUCI) in social work education in England is required by the profession's regulator, the Health and Care Professions Council. However, a recent study of eighty-three Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) in England reported that, despite considerable progress in SUCI, there is no evidence that the learning derived from it is being transferred to social work practice. In this article, we describe a study that exa…
For the Sake of their Health
Facilitating older service users’ requirements for access to or re-engagement in social networks following hospital discharge is recognized in social care analysis and policy as critically important. This is because of the associated benefits for restoring physical health and psychological well-being. However, it tends to be a neglected dimension of current social care/intermediate care. Our paper draws on a qualitative study of voluntary sector …
MacDonald's Party
Journal Article MacDonald’s Party: Labour Identities and Crisis, 1922–1932 Get access Duncan Tanner Duncan Tanner Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 119, Issue 480, February 2004, Pages 153–155, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/119.480.153 Published: 01 February 2004
Rational Choice and British Politics
Curriculum Design
The jeopardy of risk
The concept of risk occupies a pivotal position in current social work practice, yet there is surprisingly little written on the subject. This is particularly so in relation to social work with adults, with the exception of two recent volumes edited by Kemshall and Pritchard (1996 and 1997). This paper seeks to add to the literature in a way that will assist practitioners to understand the emphasis on risk in current practice, to appreciate the p…
Empowerment and care management
This paper is concerned with the policy and practice of care management, that is, the system for assessing care needs and arranging services to meet them, developed under the legislative framework of National Health Service (NHS) and Community Care Act 1990. The paper takes as its starting point the contrast between the rhetoric of service user empowerment in professional training, particularly of social workers, with the disempowering realities …
Sustaining the self in later life
This paper emanates from a small-scale qualitative study, currently in progress, looking at the implications for older people of decisions made by a social services department that they are ineligible for service provision. While the operation of eligibility criteria in the UK has been shown to exclude an increasing number of prospective users from receiving a service, little is known about how those refused a service contend with their difficult…
Rational Choice and British Politics
Older People and Access to Care
Journal Article Older People and Access to Care Get access Denise Tanner Denise Tanner Denise Tanner is a Senior Lecturer in Social Work at Coventry University and a member of Coventry Centre for Social Justice. Correspondence to Denise Tanner, School of Health and Social Sciences, Coventry University, Priory Street, Coventry CV1 5FB, UK. E‐mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The …
MacDonald's Party
Journal Article MacDonald’s Party: Labour Identities and Crisis, 1922–1932 Get access Duncan Tanner Duncan Tanner Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 119, Issue 480, February 2004, Pages 153–155, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/119.480.153 Published: 01 February 2004
Promoting the well-being of older people
Traditional assumptions of old age as a time of need and dependency are increasingly being replaced by more positive constructions of older people as active agents and resources for, rather than recipients of, welfare. The emphasis of social policy has shifted from an almost exclusive concern with meeting ‘high-level’ need and responding to crisis to broader concerns with promoting quality of life and enhancing well-being. This article considers …
For the Sake of their Health
Facilitating older service users’ requirements for access to or re-engagement in social networks following hospital discharge is recognized in social care analysis and policy as critically important. This is because of the associated benefits for restoring physical health and psychological well-being. However, it tends to be a neglected dimension of current social care/intermediate care. Our paper draws on a qualitative study of voluntary sector …
Identity, selfhood and dementia
Dementia has been identified as a policy priority area for the European Union (EU). Given projected figures on the global increase in dementia over the next few decades, working with people with dementia is likely to become an even more prominent area of activity for social workers in older people's services. Recent research has begun to engage with the subjective experiences of people with dementia and there is considerable focus within nursing …
Look after yourself
The idea of active ageing retains a broad appeal and has a global reach, particularly through the influence of the World Health Organisation (WHO). However, in practice it has been the subject of criticism. In this article, it is argued that the incorporation of active ageing into the policy agendas of the welfare systems for older people should be understood by reference to the perceived effects of demographic trends on demand for services. In t…
On the Edge of a New Frontier
This article explores the readiness of gerontological social work in the UK for meeting the challenges of an ageing society by investigating the focus on work with older people in social work education and the scope of gerontological social work research. The discussion draws on findings from two exploratory studies: a survey of qualifying master's programmes in England and a survey of the content relating to older people over a six-year period i…
Understanding and Improving Older People's Experiences of Service Transitions
This paper examines the concept of transition and its centrality to later life experiences. It considers how an enhanced and more user-centred understanding of transitions can be harnessed to improve older people's experiences of moving into and between health and social care services. It focuses, in particular, on the neglected dimension of subjective experiences of transition and considers how social workers can engage with older people's emoti…
Gerontological Social Work
Over the last twenty years, successive welfare policies have undermined gerontological social work as a specialist area of social work practice. The UK's ageing population offers an opportunity for gerontological social work to rebuild itself. Increasing numbers of older people with long-term conditions, significant growth in the population of family carers and enhanced community-based living for people with long-term needs combine to reposition …
Making It Real’
Service user and carer involvement (SUCI) in social work education in England is required by the profession's regulator, the Health and Care Professions Council. However, a recent study of eighty-three Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) in England reported that, despite considerable progress in SUCI, there is no evidence that the learning derived from it is being transferred to social work practice. In this article, we describe a study that exa…
Paying our own way’
Adult social care policy in England is premised on the concept of personalisation that purports to place individuals in control of the services they receive through market-based mechanisms of support, such as direct payments and personal budgets. However, the demographic context of an ageing population and the economic and political context of austerity have endorsed further rationing of resources. Increasing numbers of people now pay for their o…
Participatory research meets validated outcome measures
Funding for care service research is increasingly subject to the satisfaction of two requirements: public involvement and adoption of validated outcome tools. This study identifies competing paradigms within these requirements and reveals significant challenges faced by researchers who seek to satisfy them. The focus here is on a study co‐produced between academic researchers and people with experience of adult social care services. It examines t…
Opening communicative space
Current participatory research literature describes different approaches to involving service users in research, draws out lessons to be learned from the process and begins to address the difficult question of the impact of service user involvement on the research outcomes. However, very limited attention has been given to analysing in detail 'what goes on' in interviews carried out by service users or considering what difference their interactio…
Care Ethics, Democratic Citizenship and the State
From a political angle, the concept of care might contribute substantially more to democratic discourse and the creation of caring arrangements if different ideas and vocabularies of care – such as those represented by ‘affective equality’ (Lynch & Baker 2009), the ‘ethics of the flesh’ (Bacchi & Beasly 2004; Beasly & Bacchi 2012) and ‘social reproduction’ – were taken into account. While these approaches have a common political and moral objecti…
The Love That Dare Not Speak Its Name’
The concept of compassion has little prominence in social work literature or in social work curricula, in contrast with those of nursing. This is despite compassion being a valued attribute of social workers from the perspectives of service users. This article considers the meaning of compassion, possible reasons for its absence from social work parlance and its potential contribution to social work practice. Whereas empathy is seen as comprising…
Implementing Asset-Based Integrated Care
The evidence presented in this paper demonstrates that the implementation of LAC, as with most complex service innovations, is dependent on the interplay of organisational and people-based components. In particular, successful implementation depends on maintaining a common vision of what an intervention will achieve and how it will work in practice, continual engagement with the political and organisational leaders of influence, positively addres…
Casting Light on the Distinctive Contribution of Social Work in Multidisciplinary Teams for Older People
The current policy emphasis in adult social care in England is on promoting independence, preventing or delaying the need for more intensive support and the provision of personalised services. However, there is little evidence available on how social workers (SWs) identify and meet the complex needs of older service users in practice. In this article, we present findings from a study of innovative social work practice with older adults in England…
“Trying to Find People to Fit the Tech…”
Digital technology is expected to improve care and address significant service pressures within the National Health Service and social care though evidence on how their implementation might be optimised is lacking. This study explores how one such example, home-based sensors with artificial intelligence capabilities, was implemented in English social care to identify changes in behaviour that indicate the onset of potentially more serious issues.…
A Scoping Review of the Costs, Consequences, and Wider Impacts of Residential Care Home Closures in a UK Context
Background. Between 2015 and 2020, 1,578 care homes in the UK closed, displacing nearly 50,000 older and disabled people with very significant care and support needs. It is widely thought that relocation can have a significant impact on the health and well-being of older people. Yet, evidence is limited due to sensitivity and logistical difficulties with data collection. This study aimed to review the published literature in order to (i) identify…
When it comes to carers, you've got to be grateful that you've got a carer coming’
The number of older self-funders in England is growing in the context of tight eligibility criteria and fixed financial thresholds to access statutory adult social care. Older people who self-fund their social care fall largely under the radar of statutory services and of research. Our study aimed to listen closely to the stories that older people tell about finding, managing and paying for their care. We interviewed 65 older people living in the…
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