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If they would listen...: an evaluation of the Fife User Panels
- Authors:
- BARNES Marian, BENNETT-EMSLIE Gaynor
- Publisher:
- Age Concern
- Publication year:
- 1997
- Pagination:
- 70p.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
Evaluation of a project which seeks to ensure that older people in Scotland have a voice in community care planning. Looks at: the panel model; panel members views of being involved; and the response of statutory agencies to the user panel.
Care, communities and citizens
- Author:
- BARNES Marian
- Publisher:
- Longman
- Publication year:
- 1997
- Pagination:
- 213p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Harlow
Looks at the policy of community care for disabled people and older people in the context of transformations in health and social care systems over the last decade. Focuses on the challenges presented to providers of services by users of services and examines the growth of user movements, the self-organisation of carers, and the voices of services users. Explores potential conflicts and differences in priorities which become evident when users and carers are enabled to contribute to policy and service development. Also looks at conceptual, policy and practice developments which need to be made of community care is to be experienced as an empowering service option.