The future of social care : : from problem to rights-based sustainable solution / / Peter Beresford and Colin Slasberg.

"In the face of major global demographic change, social care policy and practice are in urgent need of radical reform and reassessment. Rising poverty, inequality and pressure on local communities internationally, are also increasing the urgent need for reform. Drawing on the crisis-ridden UK e...

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Place / Publishing House:Northampton : : Edward Elgar Publishing,, 2023.
Year of Publication:2023
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (218 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • About the authors
  • Acknowledgements
  • Foreword
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction to The Future of Social Care
  • PART I Social care in the UK: how it works and how it got here
  • 1. Social care: the policy progress forgot
  • 2. Sowing the seeds of dysfunction: the 1948 settlement
  • 3. Rising awareness and falling achievement
  • 4. The modern era, part one: the truth about eligibility
  • 5. The modern era, part two: smoke, mirrors and elixirs
  • 6. The social care funding fiasco
  • PART II An agenda for social care change
  • 7. Towards person-centred practice
  • 8. A paradigm for an international approach to a rights-based system
  • 9. Blueprint for a person-centred system to deliver the rights-based paradigm
  • 10. Resistance to change
  • PART III A changing world driving change in social care
  • 11. Renewing social care
  • 12. Towards sustainable social care and independent living
  • References
  • Index.