Older people and community care
Subtitle: critical theory and practice
By: Beverly Hughes.
Series: Rethinking ageing series
Publisher: Bristol, PA; Open University Press
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Buckingham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 162
Subjects: Community health services for older people -- Great Britain.; Ageism.
Description: 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 be suffused with anti-ageist values and principles?

Addressing this question the book sets out the foundation knowledge and values which must underpin the development of anti-discriminatory community care practice and examines the implications for practitioners in terms of the essential skills and inherent dilemmas which arise.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [147]-155) and index.