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Confusion reigns
- Author:
- HARDING Tessa
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 8.5.97, 1997, p.21.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
The law relating to the provision of social services for elderly and disabled people is inadequate. A ruling which means that local authorities will be able to refuse to provide residential care to older people solely because they have a little money in the bank has shocked older people and thrown government policy into disarray. Calls for an immediate change to the law so that older people continue to receive the financial support they have been promised.
Questions of tomorrow
- Author:
- HARDING Tessa
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 30.11.95, 1995, p.21.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Inspired visions of life for elderly people have been noticeably absent from the debate between health and social services about continuing care. Considers the future of community care for older people.
Into the wilderness
- Author:
- HARDING Tessa
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 27.4.95, 1995, p.20.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
The debate in Britain about long-term care policies echoes controversy in the USA where fear of growing old is compounded by fear of being too poor to afford care. Discusses the cost of needing long term care.