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| Public preferences for the care of dependency groups | | Author(s) | Patrick West, Raymond Illsley, Howard Kelman |
| Journal title | Social Science Medicine, vol 18, no 4, 1984 |
| Pages | pp 287-295 |
| Keywords | Services ; Family care ; Community care ; Management [care] ; Social surveys ; Scotland. |
| Annotation | In the context of the continuing care debate on how responsibility for the care of the disabled, chronically sick and older people (termed dependency groups) should be allocated between family and state and informal and formal caring agencies, this paper reports the main findings of a survey of care preferences advocated by the public in three locations in Scotland: an urban metropolis, a large city, and a small town in a rural setting. Results show that there is little difference in preference patterns between the locations; but the public is discriminating in its support for care arrangements for patient/client groups with age-related, physical and mental impairment. Overall, there is considerable support for a range of services termed community based professional care: day care centres, day hospitals, and sheltered housing. Residential care is less often preferred, except in cases of senile dementia. Similarly, there is only limited support for informal care without professional involvement. It seems that the public is not inclined to allocate major responsibility for the care of dependency groups to the family and close kin, preferring instead a continuing partnership between informal care systems and the welfare state. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-990423202 A |
| Classmark | I: P6:SJ: PA: QA: 3F: 9A * |
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