Understanding Self-Neglect by Roy Antrobus - 9781032352428

Understanding Self-NeglectA Guide for Health and Social Care Professionals\nAuthor(s): Roy Antrobus\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781032352428, 978-1032352428\nSynopsis\nThis book will assist health and social care professionals to improve and open up further awareness of the characteristics of self-neglect.\n\nThe perspectives of professionals and public, associated policy, legal and practice is presented in a relevant and accessible format. By taking the reader on a series of self-neglecting journeys from past to present, it explores conversations, both between professionals and members of the public. At any given time, anyone could be assessed as self-neglecting and thus becoming a self-neglecter. The aim and expectation seeks to enable the reader to get closer to this health and social care category. Human rights issues, the best practice principles around personalization and capacity, reflection on intervent.