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| Defining difference: health and social care for older people | | Author(s) | Gillian Dalley |
| Corporate Author | British Society of Gerontology - BSG |
| Journal title | IN: Care services for later life: transformations and critiques edited by Tony Warnes, Lorna Warren, Mike Nolan, 2001 |
| Publisher | Jessica Kingsley, London, 2001 |
| Pages | pp 103-118 |
| Source | Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 116 Pentonville Road, London N1 9JB. |
| Keywords | National Health Service ; Services ; Interaction [welfare services] ; Coordination ; Quality ; Ageism. |
| Annotation | Health and social services have been subject to constant definition and re-definition since the inception of the NHS (National Health Service) in 1948. Boundaries have been drawn between services, between client groups, between locations (community and hospital), between professions, and between agencies and sectors. This chapter looks at some of the more recent boundary disputes, and considers their consequences for older people, the largest client group involved. Three areas of concern are identified and discussed: the quality of services; the health-social care divide; and the tendency for older people to be excluded from the health system, by discrimination on grounds of age. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-010523202 A |
| Classmark | L4: I: QK6: QAJ: 59: B:TOB |
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