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Community care : new agendas and challenges from the UK and overseas / edited by David Challis, Bleddyn Davies and Karen Traske.

Title
Community care : new agendas and challenges from the UK and overseas / edited by David Challis, Bleddyn Davies and Karen Traske.
Publication
Aldershot : Arena, 1994.

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Additional Authors
  • British Society of Gerontology
  • Challis, David, 1948-
  • Davies, Bleddyn
  • Stewart, Karen
  • University of Kent at Canterbury. Personal Social Services Research Unit
Description
viii, 332 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
Summary
Discusses current reforms in the UK and elsewhere and illustrates what the research evidence shows about the nature of the problems of community care and how much the reforms could contribute to solving them. Key issues discussed include empowerment and choice; the failings of the old system; support of carers; care management and assessment and the financing of community and continuing care.
Series Statement
PSSRU studies series
Uniform Title
PSSRU studies series.
Subject
  • Caregivers [MESH]
  • Community Health Services [MESH]
  • Community organization > Great Britain
  • Geriatric Nursing [MESH]
  • Health Services for the Aged [MESH]
  • Respite Care [MESH]
  • Social case work > Management
  • Social service > Great Britain
  • Welfare services
Note
  • On t.p.: PSSRU University of Kent at Canterbury and BSG.
  • "Published in the PSSRU studies series in association with the British Society of Gerantology."
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
ISBN
1857422082
LCCN
gb^94068234^
OCLC
31169493
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library