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Health and social work practitioners’ experiences of working with risk and older people

Christian Beech Orcid Logo, Fiona Verity

Journal of Integrated Care, Volume: 28, Issue: 2, Pages: 197 - 211

Swansea University Authors: Christian Beech Orcid Logo, Fiona Verity

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DOI (Published version): 10.1108/jica-08-2019-0036

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The purpose of this paper is to explore interprofessional and multidisciplinary working between health and social care practitioners providing services to older people through the prism of how risk is assessed and managed. It proposes that whilst interprofessional and multidisciplinary working is a...

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ISSN: 1476-9018 1476-9018
Published: Emerald 2020
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