Reconceptualising Work With 'Carers'
Subtitle: New Directions for Policy and Practice (Research Highlights in Social Work, 43)
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Published: November 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9781843101185
Subjects: Community care; Public Policy - Social Services & Welfare; Legal status, laws, etc.; Social Science; Politics / Current Events; Sociology; Social Work; Services for; Legal status, laws, etc; Caregivers; Great Britain
First sentence: This chapter aims to set the scene for the rest of the book, first, by exploring the development of 'carers' in social policy research and the different ways in which the term has been constructed, second, by reviewing key debates in the literature.