From community care to market care? : : The development of welfare services for older people / / Robin Means, Hazel Morbey, Randall Smith.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Bristol University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-1995
• VerfasserIn: Means, Robin,; Morbey, Hazel,; Smith, Randall,
• Place / Publishing House: Bristol : : Policy Press, , [2002]; ©2002
• Year of Publication: 2002
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (212 p.)

This study reflects a growing recognition of the contribution that studies of the post-war 'welfare state' can make to contemporary debates about the restructuring of welfare. Drawing on the community care debates from 1971 to 1993, it illuminates contemporary concerns about such key issues as rationing care, the health and social care divide, the changing role of residential care and the growing emphasis on provider competition. From community care to market care focuses on the interpretation and development of national policy at local authority level in four contrasting local authorities. The results of the study will make a significant contribution to our understanding of the community care provision of older people.

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- Contents -- List of tables and figures -- Advisory Group members -- Acknowledgements -- Setting the scene -- Community care and the modernisation of welfare -- Targeting, rationing and charging for home care services -- The changing role of local authority residential care -- The shifting boundaries between health and social care -- Towards a mixed economy of social care for older people? -- Towards quasi-markets in community care -- Developing community care for the future: lessons and issues from the past -- References -- Index