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Across the health-social care divide
— elderly people as active users of health care and social care | | Author(s) | Kathryn Roberts |
| Journal title | Health & Social Care in the Community, vol 9, no 2, March 2001 |
| Pages | pp 100-107 |
| Keywords | Health services ; Services ; Usage [services] ; Consumer ; Discharge [hospitals] ; Social surveys. |
| Annotation | Making health care more accessible in the UK does not appear to be easily attainable due to the monopoly provision of health care and the lack of direct purchasing power by potential users. The author discusses ways in which older people may assume an active role when using welfare services, based on findings from semi-structured interviews with 30 service users (aged 70+) after discharge from hospital and returning home. Differences between health and social care were manifest in users' accessing services, seeking information, exercising choice amd acting independently of service providers. Although contact points were more easily defined with regard to health care, users were more likely to exercise choice and act independently in securing social care. It is suggested that social care needs and appropriate service delivery are more easily recognised than making the link between perceived health care needs and appropriate services. It also appeared that informal and private providers are more widely available and accessible for social care. If comprehensive continuing care is to be provided, incorporating both health and social care elements, greater uniformity appears to be required across the welfare sector. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-010511211 A |
| Classmark | L: I: QLD: WY: LD:QKJ: 3F |
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