This text aims to provide a unique insight into the world of community care in the 1990s. It presents findings from a national study of social care from the perspective of the older service users, their carers and care managers. Descriptive findings from this longitudinal study - conducted by the PSSRU from 1994 and funded by the Department of Health - are set in the context of the history of community care and developments since the passage of the 1990 NHS and Community Care Act. The study's findings highlight important challenges for policy and practice development in the new millennium.

Caring for Older People: An Assessment of Community Care in the 1990s (Personal Social Services Research Unit (In Association With).)

Politics & Social Sciences

University of Kent at Canterbury Personal Social Services Research uni

Social Sciences

Ashgate Pub Ltd

The community care reforms of the 1990s were shaped in part by experiences in the 1980s. Whilst many problems emerged in that period, some important lessons were also gained from the Care in the Community Demonstration Programme. Each of 28 demonstration projects helped long-stay hospital residents move to the community. In many ways, the projects tested modes of working which were later to become national policy. "Care in the Community: Challenge and Demonstration" describes these projects, the people who made the momentous move from hospital, and the community care that was established. The book reports the wide-ranging evaluation of the Demonstration Programme, including accounts of client outcomes, costs, service systems, financing, joint working, staffing and case management.

Care in the Community: Challenge and Demonstration

Cambridge, Paul

Thomason, Cirinne

Beecham, Jennifer

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