This new edition has been updated to reflect recent shifts in community and social care whilst still providing the authoritative account of its historical development. Particular attention is paid to partnerships between health and social care, the regulation of social care, direct payments and individual budgets and user/carer empowerment.

Community Care: Policy and Practice (Public Policy and Politics, 19)

Politics & Social Sciences

Means, Robin

Social Sciences

Red Globe Press

Community Care: Policy and Practice (Public Policy and Politics)

Smith, Randall

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Macmillan

Community Care: Policy and Practice

Palgrave HE UK

<p>At the heart of all policies of supporting people to live and thrive into old age lies the concept of home. Yet there is a vacuum where policies concerning housing issues should be, and such policies as exist are profoundly ageist and often based on a medical model of disability. The authors of this volume share a commitment to see the issues of later life and housing re-thought to address more adequately the diverse needs and preferences of a group who constitute around one quarter of the population. The book has three strands; to uncover the theoretical origins of accepted practice; to present a critique of the present policies and to consider new theories, ideas and methodologies for achieving user centred changes. The central aim of the book is to reduce the present dissonance between older people's needs and preferences and those of policy makers and practitioners.<br><br>It has been written for students and researchers of social and public policy, social work, health care, community care, housing studies and social gerontology; and for professionals involved with older people such as social and community care workers.</p>

Housing And Home In Later Life (Rethinking Ageing Series)

Haywood, Frances

Oldman, Christine

Sociology

Open University Press

Re-thinking housing issues with the needs of older people in mind, this book unearths the theoretical origins of current practices, critiques present policies, and promotes new theories, ideas, and methodologies for change. It also reviews empirical studies of housing decisions, independence, communal living, and other related matters. The book focuses particularly on the policies and practices of the United Kingdom. The authors are scholars of social policy and social care. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Housing and Home in Later Life (Rethinking Ageing Series)

Heywood, Frances

Open Univ Pr

The Development of Welfare Services for the Elderly

Routledge& Kegan Paul

This workbook provides a practical guide and reference for care managers and practitioners in housing, health and social services. Separate modules cover mapping your locality; housing and care management; home improvement and adaptation; primary healthcare and hospital admission and discharge.

Making partnerships work in community care: A guide for practitioners in housing, health and social services

Harrison, Lyn

Brenton, Maria

Policy Press

From Poor Law to Community Care: The Development of Welfare Services for Elderly People 1939-1971

Recent community care changes have raised fundamental issues about the changing role of the public, voluntary and informal sectors in the provision of social care to older people. They have also raised issues about the health and social care interface, the extent to which services should be rationed and the respective roles of residential care and care at home.From Poor Law to community care sets these debates in the context of the historical growth of welfare services from the outbreak of the Second World War through to the establishment of social services departments in 1971. Based on extensive research on primary sources, such as the Public Records Office and interviews with key actors, the book considers the changing perceptions of the needs of elderly people, the extent to which they have been a priority for resources and the possibilities for a policy which combines respect for elderly people with an avoidance of the exploitation of relatives.This is an updated second edition of The development of welfare services for elderly people, first published by Croom Helm, 1985. It is essential reading for practitioners and policy makers interested in gerontology, policy studies, community care and postgraduate students studying and training in a range of health and social care related professions.

From Poor Law to community care: The development of welfare services for elderly people 1939-1971

From community care to market care?: The development of welfare services for older people

This study reflects a growing recognition of the contribution that studies of the post-war 'welfare state' can make to contemporary debates about the restructuring of welfare. Drawing on the community care debates from 1971 to 1993, it illuminates contemporary concerns about such key issues as rationing care, the health and social care divide, the changing role of residential care and the growing emphasis on provider competition.From community care to market care focuses on the interpretation and development of national policy at local authority level in four contrasting local authorities. The results of the study will make a significant contribution to our understanding of the community care provision of older people.

Morbey, Hazel

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