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From poor law to community care: the development of welfare services for elderly people 1939 - 1971
- Authors:
- MEANS Robin, SMITH Randall
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- Publication year:
- 1998
- Pagination:
- 378p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Bristol
Looks at the development of services for older people from 1939 to 1971. Contains chapters on: evacuation and older people in the Second World War; the emergence of 'reforms' in residential and domiciliary welfare services; the 1948 National Assistance Act and the provision of welfare services for older people; issues in residential care; the changing role of the state, family and voluntary organisations in helping older people avoid institutional care; the restructuring of welfare services for older people; and community care and older people.
From community care to market care: the development of welfare services for older people
- Authors:
- MEANS Robin, MORBEY Hazel, SMITH Randall
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 210p., bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- Bristol
Focuses on the interpretation and development of national policy at local authority level. The authors outline the development of welfare services for older people from 1971 to 1993, and explore whether service developments in this period were as inadequate as claimed by proponents of radical change. Drawing on debates during this time, the text illuminates contemporary issues such as rationing care, the health and social care divide, the changing role of residential care and the growing emphasis on provider competition. The continuities and changes in the pre and post 1990 NHS and Community Care Act systems of community care are also examined. Contents include: 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.
Working together for better community care
- Authors:
- SMITH Randall, et al
- Publisher:
- University of Bristol. School of Advanced Urban Studies
- Publication year:
- 1993
- Pagination:
- 250p.
- Place of publication:
- Bristol
Examines in detail 6 community care projects which use imaginative and innovative approaches to the planning, management and delivery of care services. Highlights how effective working together between provider and purchaser organisations, between health, housing and social care agencies, and between professionals and users and carers is fundamental to good quality services. Looks at empowerment, equal opportunities and quality of care in each project.
Policy and change
- Editors:
- SMITH Randall, RAISTRICK Jane
- Publisher:
- University of Bristol. School for Advanced Urban Studies
- Publication year:
- 1994
- Pagination:
- 450p.,tables,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- Bristol
Collection of papers drawing together recent research into changes in social policy over the last 10 years. Examines both the pressures for change and the impact that it has had on major policy areas. Chapters focus on urban policy, health and social care, housing, and labour markets. Also looks at: management in the public sector; quality and decentralisation; the changing role of the non-profit sector; information technology and organisational change; quasi-markets and social policy; privatisation and quasi-markets; the NHS and health care expenditure; user empowerment and older people; the housing market; and the Social Charter and Europeanisation of employment and social policy.