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Dartington review on the future of adult social care: what can England learn from the experiences of other countries?
- Author:
- GLENDINNING Caroline
- Publisher:
- Research in Practice for Adults
- Publication year:
- 2010
- Pagination:
- 24p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Dartington
This paper examines the potential future funding and delivery of adult social care by investigating the experiences of other advanced welfare states, including Denmark, Netherlands and Japan. In 2008 the English Government announced consultation on the future funding and delivery of care and support for disabled adults and older people. A Green Paper was published which suggested a number of potentially radical changes to adult social care and a further period of consultation was announced. However, these debates are also much longer standing. Despite projections of demographic change, particularly future population ageing, this on-going consultation suggests that politically acceptable and economically sustainable solutions are hard to find. If central government becomes responsible for deciding on the levels of resources allocated to individual service users, then it would be unfair to expect local authorities to contribute resources from local council tax – central government would become responsible for raising all the resources for social care, from taxation and insurance mechanisms; a move entirely consistent with reform elsewhere in the world.
Rights and realities: comparing new developments in long-term care for older people
- Editor:
- GLENDINNING Caroline
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- Publication year:
- 1998
- Pagination:
- 179p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Bristol
Focuses on the shifting boundaries between health and social care, between services and money, and between public and private provision of care. Explores the experiences of a number of countries which have recently made changes in the organisation, funding or delivery of long term care services for frail older people.