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Beecham, Jennifer, Astin, Jack, Mummery, Kathryn (2001) Linking datasets, people and resources. Personal Social Services Research Unit (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:27216)

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Abstract

<p>Successive Government policy documents have stressed the objective of caring for older people in the community rather<p><p>than in residential settings. One of the key objectives of the White Paper, Caring for People, published in 1989 was “ to promote the development of domiciliary, day and respite services to enable people to live in their own homes whenever feasible and sensible” (Secretaries of State 1989). This objective was subsequently reflected in the NHS and Community Care Act, passed in 1990. In the late 1990s, following the election of the Labour Government in May 1997, the White Paper, Modernising Social Services, reiterated this objective, with its aim “to enable adults assessed as needing social care support to live as safe, full and as normal a life as possible in their own homes whenever feasible” (Department of Health 1998).

<p><p><p>The aim of the current paper is to look at patterns of care for frail older people living at home using data from the 1998/9<p><p>General Household Survey (GHS). Patterns of care include both packages of care provided by formal services and care<p><p>provided by informal carers.

Item Type: Research report (external)
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 01:37 UTC
Last Modified: 16 Nov 2021 10:05 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/27216 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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