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Services for elderly people : choice, participation and satisfaction / Isobel Allen ... [et al.].

By: Allen, Isobel.
Contributor(s): Hogg, Debra | Peace, Sheila M.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: London : Policy Studies Institute, c1992Description: 362 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. + pbk.ISBN: 0853745102 .Subject(s): Older people -- Long-term care | Older people -- CareDDC classification: 362.6
Contents:
Introduction -- Elderly people in the community: informal care -- Elderly people in the community: formal care -- Choice and participation in the package of care -- At the margin of residential care -- Elderly people in residential care: informal care -- Elderly people in residential care: formal care -- The move into residential care -- Living in a residential home -- The social work task in the community -- Getting into the system: the professional view -- Residential care: the professional view -- Views on the future of social work with elderly people -- Discussion of findings -- Policy implications of key findings.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 328-331).

Introduction -- Elderly people in the community: informal care -- Elderly people in the community: formal care -- Choice and participation in the package of care -- At the margin of residential care -- Elderly people in residential care: informal care -- Elderly people in residential care: formal care -- The move into residential care -- Living in a residential home -- The social work task in the community -- Getting into the system: the professional view -- Residential care: the professional view -- Views on the future of social work with elderly people -- Discussion of findings -- Policy implications of key findings.