The future of social care : from problem to rights-based sustainable solution

The future of social care from problem to rights-based sustainable solution

"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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor Corporativo: Edward Elgar Publishing, publisher (publisher)
Otros Autores: Beresford, Peter, author (author), Slasberg, Colin, author
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Northampton : Edward Elgar Publishing 2023.
Edición:1st ed
Materias:
Social service > Great Britain.
Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009762706706719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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