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Residential versus community care — the role of institutions in welfare provision
Author(s)	Raymond Jack
Publisher	Macmillan, Basingstoke, 1998
Pages	229 pp
Source	Macmillan Distribution Limited, Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hants RG21 6XS.
Keywords	Care homes ; Community care ; Social policy ; Theory.
Annotation	A challenge is posed to a conventional wisdom that has emerged over the past 30 years amongst practitioners and policy makers in health and welfare, which at its most extreme asserts that residential care has "no significant role to play in a modern welfare system". The twelve essays in this book are by eminent authors in the field of health and welfare policy. They deal with many types of residential institutions: psychiatric hospitals, prisons, and monasteries, as well as residential and nursing homes. Contributions question the "literature of dysfunction" which has been very powerful in promoting the community care movement in the USA and Europe, and culminating in the community care policy enshrined in the National Health Service and Community Care Act, 1990. The authors share a conviction that there will always be a need for high-quality residential provision in caring communities. (RH).
Accession Number	CPA-990827001 B
Classmark	KW: PA: TM2: 4D
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