Michele Foster

Practitioners' Documentation of Assessment and Care Planning in Social Care: The Opportunities for Organizational Learning (2008)

Foster, Michele, Harris, Jennifer, Jackson, Karen, Glendinning, Caroline

This paper analyses practitioners’ documentation of social care assessments and care plans for disabled adults of working age. The data were collected in the course of an innovative project that...

Health care practice in Australia : policy, context and innovations / (2007)

Taylor, Sandra., Taylor, Sandra., Foster, Michele., Flemming, Jennifer.

"'Health Care Practice in Australia' analyses the challenges faced by contemporary Australian health professionals, proposes principles for contemporary health care practice, and provides examples of...

Personalised social care for adults with disabilities : a problematic concept for frontline practice. (2006)

Morgan, Hannah, Foster, Michele, Glendinning, Caroline, Harris, Jennifer, Jackson, Karen

This paper explores the complexities and contradictions of frontline practice that pose problems for personalised social care through enhanced choice. It draws on semi-structured interviews with...

Spinal cord injury and family caregivers: A description of care and perception of service need (2005)

Foster, Michele, Amsters, Delena, Carlson, Glenys

As survival ratesand life expectancies ofindividuals experiencing acquired disabilities such as spinal cord injury improve, greater demands are placed on health, rehabilitation and longterm care...

An organizational perspective on goal setting in community-based brain injury rehabilitation (2005)

Simpson, Grahame, Foster, Michele, Kuipers, Pim, Kendall, Melissa, Hanna, Joe

Purpose. To use a taxonomy of goal content, developed in community-based brain injury rehabilitation to examine and compare the content of goals set within two different service settings; and to...

An organizational perspective on goal setting in community-based brain injury rehabilitation (2005)

Simpson, Grahame, Foster, Michele, Kuipers, Pim, Kendall, Melissa, Hanna, Joe

Purpose. To use a taxonomy of goal content, developed in community-based brain injury rehabilitation to examine and compare the content of goals set within two different service settings; and to...

Professional Claims, Uncertainty and the Politics of Care: Impact on Referral and Equitable Care in Traumatic Brain Injury (2004)

Foster, Michele

Rising healthcare expenditure and more explicit rationing of healthcare resources is a central feature of healthcare systems globally. In Australia, reform efforts have targeted the high cost areas...

Participation and chronic disease self.management: Are we risking inequitable resource allocation? (2003)

Foster, Michele, Kendall, Elizabeth, Dickson, Paul, Chaboyer, Wendy, Hunter, Beth, Gee, Travis

The Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion supported the empowerment of individuals to participate in their health care and have control over their health. For older adults with chronic conditions, the...