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Caring for older people: an assessment of community care in the 1990s
- Authors:
- BAULD Linda, et al
- Publisher:
- Ashgate
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 428p.,tables,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Aldershot
Aims to provide the detailed information necessary to understand and evaluate current practice in community care for older people, based on the PSSRU's Evaluating Care for the Elderly Project. Describes the development of community care from the post-war period to the present day. Describes the ECEP project and places its findings in a national context. Summarises the projects findings and reflects on their relevance to policy developments. Subsequent chapters describe the findings in detail with reference to the characteristics of the older people in the study, their carers, issues of care management, consistency in social care, and outcomes for users.