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Community social work, older people and informal care: a romantic illusion?
- Authors:
- GORDON David, DONALD Sheena
- Publisher:
- Avebury
- Publication year:
- 1993
- Pagination:
- 186p.,tables,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Aldershot
Questions the nature of the relationship between the informal and formal worlds of care for older people and the practical question of whether community based social workers can materially change the relationship. Focuses on the work of the Aberdeen Informal Support and Care Project which was set up to develop a local interweaving of the two worlds to produce more effective care.
Older people and community care: an examination of information sources in relation to levels of dependency and care in the community
- Author:
- CAREY Siobhan
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Office of Population Censuses and Surveys
- Publication year:
- 1993
- Pagination:
- 15p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Uniting generations: studies in conflict and co-operation
- Editor:
- HORN Barbara
- Publisher:
- Age Concern
- Publication year:
- 1993
- Pagination:
- 160p.,tables.
- Place of publication:
- London
Explores the controversy surrounding targeting of income maintenance benefits and rationing of work, health and social care on the basis of age rather than need. Provides an historical context, assesses the present situation and suggests ways forward. Also looks at a number of practical schemes in which young and old people are working together for their own benefit as well as making common cause in Europe and beyond.
Family and friends in old age, and the implications for informal support: evidence from the British Social Attitudes Survey of 1986
- Author:
- JARVIS Claire
- Publisher:
- Age Concern Institute of Gerontology
- Publication year:
- 1993
- Pagination:
- 24p.,tables,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Paying for care: lessons from Europe
- Authors:
- GLENDINNING Caroline, McLAUGHLIN Eithne
- Publisher:
- HMSO/Great Britain. Social Security Advisory Committee
- Publication year:
- 1993
- Pagination:
- 169p.,tables,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Comparative study looking at financial support for informal carers which has been introduced in some developed countries in the light of demographic trends experienced across Europe.
Perspectives on later life
- Editor:
- DAY Peter R.
- Publisher:
- Whiting and Birch
- Publication year:
- 1993
- Pagination:
- 177p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Papers emphasising the conceptual shift from problem-focused stereotyped old age to the diverse contributions and needs of individual people. Contains chapters on: practice and service implications of new understandings of later life; aspects of development in later life; later life in a social context; housing and services; difficulties in adjustment; loss and bereavement; informal care; and the contributions and needs of formal or paid carers.
Community care: findings from Department of Health funded research 1988-1992
- Editor:
- ROBBINS Diana
- Publisher:
- HMSO/Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 1993
- Pagination:
- 413p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Contains 6 chapters: managing and delivering services; elderly people; informal care and carers; mental health; learning disabilities; and physical disabilities and sensory impairment. Also contains a section on HIV/AIDS and substance misuse.