Author:
Ramsay Donald,Coid Donald R.
Abstract
A research partnership was formed between Fife Regional Council′s Social
Work Department, Fife Health Board and the Dementia Services Development
Centre and Social Work Research Centre of Stirling University, to
investigate the multi‐disciplinary dementia teams which operate in Fife.
The primary method of data collection was a series of group interviews
with the six dementia teams: the teams were autonomous coalitions of
professionals from various agencies and organizations who met together
voluntarily. The informal nature of the teams has permitted them to
operate without a defined set of purposes or objectives, enabling the
participants to work together with a degree of pragmatism according to
professional values and agency policies. There was wide agreement within
the teams that the co‐ordination of multi‐agency services to clients was
much improved and inter‐personal relations between different
professionals had become much better developed since the operation of
teams.
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