Care in chaos : frustration and challenge in community care /: frustration and challenge in community care. ([1998?])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Roger Hadley and Roger Clough ; with a foreword by Helena Kennedy QC.
• Other Names: Hadley, Roger, 1931-2001; Clough, Roger
• Contents: Foreword; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; Part 1 Context; 1 Community care: the evolution of policy and practice; Part 2 Views from the field: the case studies; 2 Managers and generalists; Case study 1: Damage limitation: managing the community care changes in a metropolitan authority. An assistant director; Case study 2: 'We had done some excellent things'': the undermining of specialist services in a social services department. A senior manager; Case study 3: From moving spirit to managerial ethos: change in an independent child care charity. A middle manager. Case study 4: Order from chaos? Change in an inner city general practice. A general practitioner3 Working with older people; Case study 5: The politics of disintegration: the demise of a department of geriatric medicine. A geriatrician; Case study 6: Quicker and sicker: the impact of change on community nursing. A community nurse; Case study 7: ''Where else can I go?'' The effects of the Community Care changes on the regime of a nursing home. A qualified carer; Case study 8: The price of caring: from trust employee to private sector employer. A community psychiatric nurse. 4 Working with people with learning disabilitiesCase study 9: Resettlement in the community: fighting for principle-driven change in hospital and social services. A nurse manager; Case study 10: Learning disabilities: a service in jeopardy. A learning disabilities team leader; Case study 11: ''We''re being pushed into competing against each other'': change in a voluntary organization for adults with learning disabilities. The director of a voluntary organization; Case study 12: ''A merciful release'': the life and death of a gentle man. A guardian and a care assistant. 5 Working with people with mental illnessCase study 13: Change without leadership: a mental health team in a failing organization. A senior social worker; Case study 14: The death of excellence: the demise of a multi-disciplinary mental health team. An occupational therapist; Part 3 Analysis and discussion; 6 The worlds they have lost: providing community care before the changes; 7 Brave new world? Providing community care after the changes; 8 Emergent issues; 9 An extravagant An extravagant experiment? Change strategies in theory and practice; 10 Alternative futures; References. Appendix 1 The questionnaireAppendix 2 The background to community care: legislation and guidance; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y.
• Publisher Details: London : Continuum
• Publication Date: 1998
• Extent: 1 online resource (xii, 226 pages)
• Subjects: 361.941; Public welfare -- Great Britain; Human services -- Great Britain; POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Human Services; Human services; Public welfare; Social conditions; Social policy; Human services; Public welfare; Community Health Services; Public Policy; Great Britain -- Social policy -- 1979-; Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 1945-; Great Britain; United Kingdom; Electronic book
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781847142917; 1847142915
• Related ISBNs: 9780304335244; 030433524X; 9780304335251; 0304335258
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 212-215) and index.
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