OLDER PEOPLE AND COMMUNITY CARE by Beverly Hughes ( 9780335191567 )

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OLDER PEOPLE AND COMMUNITY CARE

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Paperback

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ISBN 10:

0335191568

ISBN 13:

9780335191567

Publisher:

OPEN UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

1 September, 1995

Pages:

176

Description:

Addresses the question, How can community care practice be suffused with anti-ageist values and principles? This book sets out the foundation knowledge and values that underpin the development of anti-discriminatory community care practice and examines the implications for practitioners in terms of the skills and dilemmas which arise.

Synopsis:

Older People and Community Care sets social and health care practice with older people firmly in the context of the new community care arrangements and the consequent organizational trends towards a market culture. However, it also questions the relative lack of attention given by professionals to issues of structural inequality in old age, compared for example to race and gender. Thus, the book tackles a double agenda: * How can community care practice be suffused with anti-ageist values and principles?Addressing this question the book sets out the foundation knowledge and values which must underpin the development of anti-discriminatory community care practice and examines the implications for practitioners in terms of the essential skills and inherent dilemmas which arise.Older People and Community Care is essential reading for all those working with and managing services to older people, and who aspire to make empowerment for older people a reality.

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bibliography, index

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Open University Press

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OLDER PEOPLE AND COMMUNITY CARE

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