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Community care assessments: a brief word on language and older people
- Author:
- BARRETT David
- Journal article citation:
- Generations Review, 3(2), June 1993, pp.4-5.
- Publisher:
- British Society of Gerontology
Analysis of verbal language and its everyday usage can lead to a more enlightened view of the complexity of the community care assessment task. Explores some of the linguistic issues and arguments, making the connection with older people and their community care assessors. The latter is then explored in the context of some of the current processes and principles that underpin the present welfare state. When looked at from this perspective assessments are remarkably complex interactions - considers whether they are recognised as such.