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Community care for older people
— rights, remedies and finances | | Author(s) | Margaret Richards |
| Publisher | Jordans, Bristol, 1996 |
| Pages | 276 pp |
| Source | Jordan Publishing Ltd., 21 St Thomas Street, Bristol, BS1 6JS. |
| Keywords | Community care ; Care homes ; Rights [elderly] ; Finance [care] ; Law. |
| Annotation | Part III of the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 has given local authority social service departments the lead role in creating a new 'free market' in community care provision. This book is the first comprehensive account of how this works in practice, and how it has affected older people and their families. It concentrates on the Act's legal framework, detailing what services have to be provided, how individual need is assessed, the relationship between health and social care and NHS continuing care, contracts for care and quality assurance, and how local authority decisions can be challenged. It also looks at how older people should fund their care, outlining: how residential care fees are assessed; what happens to the family home and other assets; the system for charging for home-care services; how to use welfare benefits to pay for care; and ways of mitigating the costs of care. |
| Accession Number | CPA-961121208 B |
| Classmark | PA: KW: IKR: QC: VR |
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