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Nothing personal: rationing social care for older people
- Author:
- HELP THE AGED
- Publisher:
- Help the Aged
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 112p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Local authorities are rationing social services in an effort to manage limited services. The strategies include waiting lists eligibility criteria and charging for home care services. As a result social services departments can help only the most dependant people. This book looks at the ways in which chronic underfunding of social care is undermining the original intentions of the NHS and Community Care Act 1990.