Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Care, welfare and community are three key concepts in contemporary social policy. This reader covers a wide range of topics associated with them and relevant to the delivery of care and support to adults. It includes a wide-ranging collection of articles by leading writers and researchers, some previously published, some newly commissioned. It also has first-hand accounts by users and providers of care and welfare in the community. Groups covered include people with mental health problems, homeless people, older people, people with learning difficulties and people with impairments. The focus throughout is on how policies and practice can be developed appropriately and sensitively through an understanding of current issues.
The 40 chapters are grouped into four sections, each with an introduction. Five of the chapters are made up of extracts from a wide range of documents and testimonies.
* Power and inequality
* Difference and identity
* Rights and risk
*Territories and boundaries
Most of the material relates to a diverse turn-of-the-century Britain, but this is set in a wider context enabling the student to explore the alternative realities of other countries and other times.
Understanding Care, Welfare and Community provides an integrated, multidisciplinary overview of the many different aspects of community care. It is appropriate for students and professionals following a wide range of courses in social work, nursing, care, health, social policy, medicine, voluntary work and welfare services. It will also be a valuable resource for carers and practitioners, teachers and policy makers.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Preface
• Part One Power and Inequality Introduction
• 1 Unsettled Lives (Extracts)
• 2 William and Teresa
• 3 The Effects of Poverty
• 4 Poverty and the Social Services
• 5 Witness to Welfare (Extracts)
• 6 The History of Community Care for People with Learning Difficulties
• 7 Multiple Oppression and the Disabled People's Movement
• 8 Campaigning and the Pensioners' Movement
• 9 Settling in and Moving On
• 10 Paying for Nursing Home Care
• Part Two Difference and Identity Introduction
• 11 Different Communities (Extracts)
• 12 The Regeneration of Communities
• 13 Social Change, Networks and Family Life
• 14 Problematizing Social Care Needs in Minority Communities
• 15 A Child's View of Care in the Community
• 16 Community and Stigma (Extracts)
• 17 Ageing, Learning Difficulties and Maintaining Independence
• 18 Whiteness and Emotions in Social Care
• 19 On Becoming a Disabled Person
• 20 Remind me who I Am, Again
• Part Three Rights and Risks Introduction
• 21 Risk and Dangerousness
• 22 Evaluating Self-Determination
• 23 Out of This World
• 24 The Prospect of Residential Care
• 25 Independence, Privacy and Risk
• 26 Malignant Social Psychology
• 27 Exposing Abuse in Care Homes
• 28 Regulating Informality: Small Homes and the Inspectors
• 29 Community Care Law and the Human Rights Act 1998
• 30 Self-Advocacy for People with Learning Difficulties
• Part Four Territories and Boundaries Introduction
• 31 Community Care in the Information Age
• 32 Providing Support (Extracts)
• 33 Carework and Bodywork
• 34 European Policies on Home Care Services Compared
• 35 The Boundaries Between Health and Social Care Assessment in Action
• 37 The Importance of Housing and Home
• 38 Partnership Between Disabled People and Service Providers
• 39 Care as a Commodity
• 40 Good Companions (Extracts)