Older people and community care : critical theory and practice / Beverly Hughes.
By: Hughes, Beverley
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BookSeries: Rethinking ageing series.Publisher: Buckingham ; Bristol, PA: Open University Press, 1995Description: xii, 162 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. + pbk.ISBN: 0335191568 .Subject(s): Community health services for older people -- Great Britain | AgeismDDC classification: 362.19897 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| General Lending | MTU Bishopstown Library Lending | 362.19897 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00069709 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
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.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 147-155) and index.
Introduction: Understanding the NHS and Community care act -- Part I: Knowledge and values -- Theories of ageing -- The social condition of older people -- Ageism and anti-ageist practice -- Part II: Skills -- Communicating with older people: The professional encounter -- Assessment -- Implementing and managing care -- Direct work with users and carers -- Protection -- Conclusion: Challenges and priorities.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Series editor's preface Understanding the NHS and community care act
- Part 1 Knowledge and values Theories of ageing
- The social condition of older people
- Ageism and anti-ageist practice
- Part 2 Skills Communication with older people the professional encounter
- Assessment Implementing and managing care Direct work with users and carers
- Protection Conclusion challenges and priorities
- Bibliography
- Index
Author notes provided by Syndetics
The AuthorBeverley Hughes is Senior Lecturer in Social Work and Head of the Department of Social Policy and Social Work at the University of Manchester. She has pioneered the development of anti-ageist teaching within social work education and has researched and published extensively on the subjects of gerontology, social policy and professional practice in relation to older people.