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Housing: the foundation of community care?
Author(s)	C Bochel, H Bochel, D Page
Journal title	Health & Social Care in the Community, vol 7, no 6, November 1999
Pages	pp 492-501
Keywords	Housing [elderly] ; Community care ; Needs [elderly] ; Social policy.
Annotation	Housing makes a major and growing contribution to community care, however, there appears to be no agreed vision of the benefits a housing orientation can bring to the quality of community care. This article critically examines the emergence and development of the idea of housing as a key component of community care, identifying some of the reasons why the housing dimension has risen from a marginalised position to the central role which it is now often suggested it should occupy. The authors suggest that community care users have consistently claimed that housing is the first essential components of community care. What is needed is for other participants in the community care process to endorse and develop an ordinary housing approach to community care, in which housing is genuinely accepted as the vital component and which can be translated into practice. (AKM).
Accession Number	CPA-000118207 A
Classmark	KE: PA: IK: TM2
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