From Poor Law to Community Care: The Development of Welfare Services for Elderly People 1939-1971

by Robin Means and Randall Smith

Recent community care changes have raised fundamental issues about the changing role of the public, voluntary and informal sectors in the provision of social care to older people. They have also raised issues about the health and social care interface, the extent to which services should be rationed and the respective roles of residential care and care at home. From Poor Law to community care sets these debates in the context of the historical growth...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1861340850
• ISBN13: 9781861340856
• Release Date: September 1998
• Publisher: Policy Press
• Length: 380 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.4"