Table of Contents:
  • 1. Welfare policy : context of community care
  • 2. Community care : assessing needs, risks and rights
  • 3. Performance management : causes and effects and their impact on community care
  • 4. The older person's social care and the enabling service
  • 5. Intermediate care : implications for service users
  • 6. Do direct payments offer people with learning disabilities greater choice and control?
  • 7. Caring for older people : informal care and carers
  • 8. Promoting inclusiveness : developing empowering practice with minority groups of older people - the example of older lesbian women and gay men
  • 9. Eclectic models in working with learning disabled people - an overview of some key issues concerning health and wellness
  • 10. Adult protection for community care/vulnerable adults.