Care in Chaos

by Roger Hadley; Roger Clough

• ISBN13: 9780304335244
• ISBN10: 030433524X
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1998-09-01
• Publisher: Bloomsbury UK

Summary

This text-book examines the policy and organizational context for community care, and consists of interviews and case studies, showing how community care is (or is not) working within the areas of care for the elderly, learning disabilities, mental health and physical disabilities

Table of Contents

Foreword
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction	p. 1
Context	p. 5
Community care: the evolution of policy and practice	p. 7
Views from the field: the case studies	p. 21
Managers and generalists	p. 23
Working with older people	p. 61
Working with people with learning disabilities	p. 100
Working with people with mental illness	p. 140
Analysis and discussion	p. 161
The worlds they have lost: providing community care before the changes	p. 163
Brave new world? Providing community care after the changes	p. 173
Emergent issues	p. 184
An extravagant experiment? Change strategies in theory and practice	p. 198
Alternative futures	p. 206
References	p. 212
Appendix 1 The questionnaire	p. 216
Appendix 2 The background to community care: legislation and guidance	p. 219
Index	p. 223
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