Product Description: Maps the effects of service inputs on benefits for users and carers and uses this knowledge to discuss policy propositions. The book has an unfolding logic and shows how the use of this new research approach transforms discussion of the policy issues formulated by Labour and the Royal Commission...read more

Product Description: This text aims to provide a unique insight into the world of community care in the 1990s. It presents findings from a national study of social care from the perspective of the older service users, their carers and care managers. Descriptive findings from this longitudinal study - conducted by the PSSRU from 1994 and funded by the Department of Health - are set in the context of the history of community care and developments since the passage of the 1990 NHS and Community Care Act...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: England and France have contrasting systems in community care for elderly persons as in other areas of social policy. The aims of this book are: the comparison of community care service and financing systems; the comparison of reform arguments and history over the last decade; the comparison of who uses how much of what services; and with what impact on their needs and the probability of having to enter institutions for long-term care...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Caring for Older People: Developing Specialist Practice addresses the care of older people in the community, nursing and residential homes, and in the hospital setting. This unique text charts the development of this nursing specialty and contains a broad range of up-to-date, evidence-based material covering aspects such as quality of life, mobility, social interaction, sexuality, community perspectives and the care of those with learning disabilities or mental health problems...read more

Product Description: This work from the "Personal Social Services Research Unit" looks back to the early stages of community care, comparing them with today's emerging policy with a view to improving community care still further. The book describes the first stages of the local development of the community care policy reforms laid out in the 1989 Caring for People white paper and the subsequent 1990 NHS and Community Care Act...read more

Product Description: This work both discusses current reform in community care in the UK and elsewhere, and also illustrates what the research evidence shows to be the nature of the problems and how much the reforms could contribute to solving them.

Product Description: Book by Ferlie, Ewan, Challis, David, Davies, Bleddyn