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Defining difference: health and social care for older people in the 1990s
— [paper presented to the British Society of Gerontology Conference in September 1998] | | Author(s) | Gillian Dalley |
| Corporate Author | Centre for Policy on Ageing - CPA; British Society of Gerontology - BSG |
| Publisher | Centre for Policy on Ageing, London, 1998 |
| Pages | 16 pp (Centre for Policy on Ageing occasional paper, no 1) |
| Source | Centre for Policy on Ageing, 25-31 Ironmonger Row, London EC1V 3QP. |
| 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 paper 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. This paper forms the basis for a chapter in the book "Care services for later life: transformations and critiques" edited by Tony Warnes, Lorna Warren and Mike Nolan. (RH/KJ). |
| Accession Number | CPA-981012001 P |
| Classmark | L4: I: QK6: QAJ: 59: B:TOB * |
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