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 issue...

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Author / Creator: Means, Robin.
Other Authors / Creators:Morbey, Hazel.
Smith, Randall, 1936-
Format: eBook Electronic
Language:English
Language notes:English.
Imprint: Bristol : Policy Press, 2002.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Access:Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time;
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Table of Contents:
  • Setting the scene
  • Community care and the modernisation of welfare
  • Targeting, rationing and charging for home care services
  • The changing role of local authority residential care
  • The shifting boundaries between health and social care
  • Towards a mixed economy of social care for older people?
  • Towards quasi-markets in community care
  • Developing community care for the future: lessons and issues from the past.