Older People and Community Care

by Hughes

Older People and Community Care sets social and health care practice with older people firmly in the context of the new community care arrangements and the consequent organizational trends towards a market culture. However, it also questions the relative lack of attention given by professionals to issues of structural inequality in old age, compared for example to race and gender. Thus, the book tackles a double agenda: * How can community care practice...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0335191568
• ISBN13: 9780335191567
• Release Date: September 1995
• Publisher: Open University Press
• Length: 178 Pages
• Weight: 0.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"