From Poor Law to community care
Regular price
€36.50
1939
1971
A01=Randall Smith
A01=Robin Means
Author_Randall Smith
Author_Robin Means
care
Category=JKSG
community
development
elderly
eq_bestseller
eq_isMigrated=1
eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
eq_society-politics
Poor Law
Product details
- ISBN 9781861340856
- Dimensions: 148 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 01 Sep 1998
- Publisher: Policy Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
Secure
checkout
Fast Shipping
Easy returns
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.
Robin Means is Associate Dean (Primary and Community Care) of the Faculty of Health and Social Care at the University of the West of England, Bristol.
Randall Smith is Senior Lecturer in the School for Policy Studies, University of Bristol.
