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Shelter with care and the community care reforms

Davies, Bleddyn P. (1998) Shelter with care and the community care reforms. In: Jack, Raymond, ed. Residential Versus Community Care: The Role of Institutions in Welfare Provision. Macmillan, London, pp. 71-111. ISBN 0-333-66518-X. (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:26506)

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Abstract

<p>Bruce Vladeck wrote that the American nursing home was like the story of the mule in the settlement of the West. Without it, the history would have been different. But it was simply not the main focus for anyone, certainly not for those living through it. An exaggeration perhaps. But during the years of reform, shelter-with-care (SWC) has received perhaps less attention in the British community care reforms than did nursing homes in Lyndon Johnson's introduction of Medicare and Medicaid. The reforms could provide a context which could evolve an even nobler family of beasts: not one or two species but several, all drawing genes from the same British SWC stock. This essay speculates about how that will happen, and about some of the pressures on the evolution which will influence the kind of beasts they will be.

Item Type: Book section
Divisions: Divisions > Division for the Study of Law, Society and Social Justice > School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research > Personal Social Services Research Unit
Depositing User: R. Bass
Date Deposited: 21 May 2011 01:26 UTC
Last Modified: 16 Nov 2021 10:04 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/26506 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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