From Poor Law to Community Care: The Development of Welfare Services for Elderly People 1939-1971

ISBN-13: 9781861340856 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 380 str.

Robin Means

Opis

Recent community care changes have raised fundamental issues about the changing role of the public, voluntary and informal sectors in the provision of social care to frail elderly people. They have also raised issues about the health and social care interface, how to ration services and the respective roles of residential care and care at home. The purpose of this book is to set these debates in the context of the historical growth of welfare services from the outbreak of the Second World War through to the establishment of social services departments in April 1971.