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Nothing personal : rationing social care for older people
— report produced for Help the Aged by the Nuffield Community Care Studies Unit of the University of Leicester | | Corporate Author | Help the Aged; Nuffield Community Care Studies Unit, University of Leicester |
| Publisher | Help the Aged, London, 2002 |
| Pages | 112 pp |
| Source | Help the Aged, 207-221 Pentonville Road, London N1 9UZ. |
| Keywords | Services ; Domiciliary services ; Social Services Departments ; Grant allocation ; Policy ; Reports. |
| Annotation | It is almost 10 years since the reform of community care, brought about by the NHS and Community Care Act 1990. This report looks at the ways in which underfunding of social care is undermining the original intentions of the Act. It describes an investigation into the policies and practices of six local authorities across England and Wales in determining how older people can access social care. It is based on interviews with local authority social services departments (SSDs), voluntary sector and independent providers of care services, and older people who use the services and their carers. The report examines what is being promised and what is being delivered by central and local government; outlines findings from SSDs about their budgets, resource constraints and structures; considers the impact of care management policy on practice and outcomes; and looks at how resource constraints affect services, choice and quality, and the impact of these on older people. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-020516002 B |
| Classmark | I: N: PF: QCG: QAD: 6K |
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