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Joint health and social services care for elderly: rhetoric and reality
- Authors:
- BEBBINGTON A.C., CHARNLEY H
- Publisher:
- University of Kent. Personal Social Services Research Unit
- Publication year:
- 1987
- Pagination:
- 15p., tables.
- Place of publication:
- Canterbury
With the growing trend towards maintaining highly dependent elderly people in their own homes, management arrangements for the delivery of health and social care services have been brought under the spotlight. Joint planning and the use of joint finance monies represent a top down approach to the question of inter-agency provision, and have received considerable attention in the research literature of the last decade. How such arrangements filter through to front-line practices has however received rather less attention. This paper examines joint working arrangements at field level for a group of elderly people receiving both community health and social services. It demonstrates how uncertainties at planning level are mirrored in the unco-ordinated management of individual cases, and concludes that despite hopes for positive achievements of joint planning, there has been not major impact on mainstream health and social services for elderly people living in the community.
Planning for the elderly: achieving a balance of care; designing successful studies in joint health and local authority planning
- Authors:
- McCLENAHAN John, et al
- Publisher:
- Kings Fund
- Publication year:
- 1987
- Pagination:
- 45p., tables.
- Place of publication:
- London
Describes work done by Arthur Anderson & Co. Management Consultants over a period of years into components which make up successful joint planning exercises. The five projects AAMC were involved with were :the DHSS Operational Research Service Balance of Care Model, pilot trials of that model in Wiltshire and East Sussex, Audit Commission value for money work in SSDs, Bath Health District, and Kingston and Esher Health District.