The Essentials of Community Care: A Guide for Practitioners

This is a basic guide to community care aimed at both health and social care practitioners. It offers a clear and reader-friendly introduction to policy and practice, covering both the background to, and the structure and dynamics of, contemporary policy and provision. Networks and boundaries of care are discussed, including formal and informal care and multiprofessional working, as are the skills of assessment and care management and issues such as user empowerment and abuse.