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Negotiating access to community care assessments
— perspectives of front-line workers, people with a disability and carers | | Author(s) | Kirstein Rummery, Kathryn Ellis, Ann Davis |
| Journal title | Health & Social Care in the Community, vol 7, no 4, July 1999 |
| Pages | pp 296-300 |
| Keywords | Physical disabilities ; Informal care ; Community care ; Evaluation. |
| Annotation | Evidence is presented from a study of how people with a disability and their carers gain access to community care assessments following implementation of the NHS and Community Care Act 1990. The authors found that the way in which practitioners and managers responded to shortfalls between the needs and resources had a significant impact on the way in which people with a disability and carers gained access to assessments. The results of the study also indicate that older people face additional barriers in negotiating access to assessments. The authors conclude that particular attention needs to be paid to the provision of accessible information to people with a disability and carers about the criteria and procedures used in community care assessments. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-990826253 A |
| Classmark | BN: P6: PA: 4C |
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