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From poor law to community care
— the development of welfare services for elderly people 1939-1971 | | Author(s) | Robin Means, Randall Smith |
| Publisher | Policy Press, Bristol, 1998 |
| Pages | 371 pp |
| Source | Policy Press, University of Bristol, Rodney Lodge, Grange Road, Bristol BS8 4EA. |
| Keywords | Services ; Health services ; Community care ; Care homes ; Family care ; Social Services Departments ; Social policy ; United Kingdom. |
| Annotation | Recent community care changes have raised fundamental issues about the changing role of the public, voluntary and informal sectors in the provision of social care to older people. In addition, they have raised issues about the health and social care interface, rationing of services, and the respective roles of residential care and care at home. This updated edition sets these debates in the context of the historical growth of welfare services from the outbreak of the Second World War (WW2) through to the establishment of social services departments in 1971. The first part of the book is concerned with the conditions under which older people do or do not become a priority for service provision by the state. Topics covered include evacuation arrangements of older people during WW2, reform of domiciliary and residential services, and the 1948 National Assistance Act. The establishment of the National Corporation for the Care of Old People (NCCOP), later to become the Centre for Policy on Ageing (CPA), is also described. The second part looks at welfare service developments for older people in the period 1948-71, covering criticism of institutional care; family care; restructuring of services; and community care. (AKM). |
| Accession Number | CPA-981013209 B |
| Classmark | I: L: PA: KW: P6:SJ: PF: TM2: 8 |
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