Full Description
When this book was originally published in 1990, the policy of 'community care' occupied a central place in the development of health and social services in Britain. The elderly or mentally ill were being moved out from long-stay hospitals into the community. However, many problems arose from the planning-co-ordination and implementation of this policy and then, as now, community care is at a crisis point. In this book, workers from different areas of community care - the Health Service, voluntary bodies, politics, universities highlight the issues surrounding the run-down of long-stay institutions and make positive suggestions about how individual and agencies can provide effective community care. The contributors examine the political and historical context of community care and discuss whether the move towards care in the community actually improves the quality of life for patients. They look at planning services, and discuss examples of good practice in community care, encouraging practitioners to be more involved in the evaluation of community services.
The book will be of interest to a wide range of professionals and voluntary workers in all fields of community care.
Contents
Part 1: The Context of Care in the Community 1. The Political Context of Care in the Community: A Review of the Work of the Parliamentary Select Committee for Social Services Renée Short 2. Community Care: An Historical Overview Geoff Shepherd 3. Safeguarding Quality Roger Blunden 4. Community Care: In Pursuit of Quality and Excellence Chris Heginbotham Part 2: Planning Services 5. Designing Services with People Who Are Elderly Derek Thomas, Viv Holt, Mike Illingworth, Nick Maddocks and Edna Robinson 6. Community Care Means Never Having to Say You're Sorry: Avoiding Instituionalization in the Community Mark O' Callaghan 7. Implications For Staff: How Far Can Retraining Go? Frances Brown 8. Similarities and Differences Between Client Groups: Values and Myths Ian MacDonald Part 3: Examples of Good Practice 9. Individual Services to People with Profound Mental Handicaps and Challenging Behaviour Jan Hill-Tout 10. Evaluating Community Services: Social Network Analysis Philip Seed 11. From Communities to Neighbourhoods: Evaluation Steve Baldwin 12. Evaluation of Community Services: A Local Example Annette Hames 13. Need in the Community: A District Model Geoff Shepherd 14. Quality in Residential Services for Adults with Severe or Profound Mental Handicap: Lessons from a Development Project David Felce 15. The Evaluation of the All-Wales Strategy for People with a Mental Handicap Gerry Evans, Stuart Todd and Stephen Beyer 16. Conclusions and Implications Sara Barna
