Community Care

Fully updated throughout, the third edition of this textbook on care in the community assesses its impact on users and carers and the changing role of social services, health care and other professionals. Providing a balanced assessment of the achievements and failures to date of New Labour's modernization agenda, it offers systematiccoverage of contemporary issues and of likely future scenarios including the impact of care trusts. Strong emphasis is placed on the historical and international context especially the importance of the EU.