Working With Older People and Their Families
Subtitle: Key Issues in Policy and Practice
Contributors: Mike Nolan (Editor); Sue Davies (Editor); Gordon Grant (Editor)
Publisher: Open University Press; Open University
Published: April 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780335205615
Subjects: Care of the elderly; Elderly; Family & relationships; Gerontology; Social Work; Social Science; Care; Family relationships; Older people; Social work with older people; Sociology
First sentence: Community care policy in the UK reflects contradictory aspirations (simultaneously) promoting resource efficiency and cost effectiveness while advocating a process of needs-led assessment, which provides time for individuals to make their own decisions (Wistow 1995).