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Redefining community care social work
— needs or risk led? | | Author(s) | Jan Waterson |
| Journal title | Health & Social Care in the Community, vol 7, no 4, July 1999 |
| Pages | pp 276-279 |
| Keywords | Community care ; Social work ; Needs [elderly] ; At risk ; Evaluation. |
| Annotation | This reflective paper assesses whether the focus of community care social work is shifting from responding to needs to reducing or containing risks. Whilst public response to unacceptable risk has instigated major developments in health and welfare services and an overt concern with risk management is a key feature in elder abuse and mental health work, notions of risk have featured less explicitly in the community care literature. As containing risk becomes criteria for rationing scarce resources, this paper suggests that community care assessment is increasingly concerned with risk management. In addition, such emphasis on only the negative connotations of risk and the need for protection may constrain empowering service users to define their own positive risks. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-990826252 A |
| Classmark | PA: IG: IK: CA3: 4C |
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