Building the National Care Service
Author: Great Britain. Department of Health
Publisher: The Stationery Office
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 164
ISBN-13: 9780101785426
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Retooling for an Aging America
Author: Institute of Medicine
Publisher: National Academies Press
Published: 2008-08-27
Total Pages: 316
ISBN-13: 0309131952
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAs the first of the nation's 78 million baby boomers begin reaching age 65 in 2011, they will face a health care workforce that is too small and woefully unprepared to meet their specific health needs. Retooling for an Aging America calls for bold initiatives starting immediately to train all health care providers in the basics of geriatric care and to prepare family members and other informal caregivers, who currently receive little or no training in how to tend to their aging loved ones. The book also recommends that Medicare, Medicaid, and other health plans pay higher rates to boost recruitment and retention of geriatric specialists and care aides. Educators and health professional groups can use Retooling for an Aging America to institute or increase formal education and training in geriatrics. Consumer groups can use the book to advocate for improving the care for older adults. Health care professional and occupational groups can use it to improve the quality of health care jobs.
Strengthening Young Bodies, Building the Nation
Author: Vassiliki Theodorou
Publisher: Central European University Press
Published: 2019-07-18
Total Pages: 376
ISBN-13: 9633862795
DOWNLOAD EBOOKStimulated by the development of childhood studies and the social history of medicine, this book lays out the historical circumstances that led to the medicalization of childhood in Greece from the end of the nineteenth century until World War Two. For this span of fifty years, the authors explore how the national question was bound up with concerns raised about the health of children. They also investigate the various connotations of child health and maternity care in the context of liberal and authoritarian governments, as well as the wider social and cultural changes that took place in this period. Drawing on a wide array of primary and secondary sources, the authors look into the role of doctors, social thinkers and civil servants in the shaping of health policy; the impact of the medical paradigm from Western Europe; and the gradual professionalization of health care in Greece. Theodorou and Karakatsani describe an increasing intervention of the state in the medical supervision of childhood, the relationship between the philanthropic organizations and the state, as well as the impact of the national rivalries and wars on efforts to improve child health.
Social Care in the UK’s Four Nations
Author: Catherine Needham
Publisher: Policy Press
Published: 2024-03-12
Total Pages: 226
ISBN-13: 1447364651
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe devolution of social care policy has led to key differences emerging between the UK’s four care systems. This book presents research on the perspectives of social care policy makers within the UK’s four care systems, concluding that when given equal capacity to reform, the systems in each nation may take radically different shapes.
Transforming Adult Social Care
Author: Gray, Ann Marie
Publisher: Policy Press
Published: 2013-04-10
Total Pages: 246
ISBN-13: 1447309774
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAdult social care has emerged as a distinct policy area in the UK and one which has come under increasing scrutiny by government and other bodies. With the expectation that in future many more adults will need care and support, ideas have emerged about a ‘transformation’ of adult social care. The focus of this wide-ranging book is on the major themes in policy and provision including personalisation, integration, user participation, the cost of long term care, risk and safeguarding, care quality and workforce issues and is one of the first texts to deal with adult social care as a distinct entity and is an up-to-date source on contemporary government policies, debates and research.The book encourages readers to think critically about decisions being made and about the direction of future policy. The accessible book will be a valuable resource for undergraduate students in Social Policy, Health and Social Care, and Social Work, those taking advanced vocational qualifications in social care and practitioners.
Social Work and Human Development
Author: Karin Crawford
Publisher: SAGE
Published: 2010-06-25
Total Pages: 194
ISBN-13: 1844457443
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIt is necessary for social work students to understand fully how people develop and how the different stages of life, from birth to older adulthood, require them to use different skills and approaches. Covering all stages of the life course, this essential guide looks at the ways in which people develop before birth, as babies and children, through to adolescence and on to young, middle and older adulthood. With this knowledge embedded, social workers are able to establish and maintain effective partnerships with both service users and other professionals.
Critical Discourses of Old Age and Telecare Technologies
Author: Gizdem Akdur
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2020-04-19
Total Pages: 130
ISBN-13: 1000075451
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book makes an enquiry into policies surrounding old age and telecare. It contextualises telecare within the wider history of health and social care in England to build the case that there are grand narratives of old age embedded in policies. Divided into four sections, the book covers: • Connecting old age with telecare • A general review of old age and telecare • A critical enquiry into discourses and the identity of old age • Conclusions and future directions. The author highlights the manifestation of old age discourses in care policies, how they have been perpetuated yet also transformed in the context of telecare, and what this means about older people. The book will be of interest to students and academics in the fields of gerontology, sociology, old age studies, philosophy, social policy, health and social care policy, information systems, and critical theoreticians
Social Policy
Author: John Baldock
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2011-09-22
Total Pages: 587
ISBN-13: 0199570841
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDesigned for use by undergraduates on social policy, social work and sociology courses and by students on vocational training courses (including postgraduate), this textbook covers all the main topics of social policy.
A Revolution in Family Policy
Author: Henricson, Clem
Publisher: Policy Press
Published: 2012-09-26
Total Pages: 198
ISBN-13: 144730862X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book offers a radical rethink of family policy in the UK. Clem Henricson, the family policy expert, analyses in detail the major shift in the role of the state viz a viz personal relationships in recent years, with its aspirations to reduce child poverty, increase social mobility and deliver social cohesion.Brought in by New Labour and carried forward, albeit in diluted form, by the Coalition, Henricson asks whether this philosophy of social betterment through manipulating the parent-child relationship is appropriate for family policy. She challenges the thinking behind the expectation that you can change a highly unequal society through the family route.Instead the argument is made for a family policy with its own raison d'etre, free of other government agendas. A premium is set on the need to manage the multiple core tensions in families of affection, empathy and supportiveness on the one hand and aggression, deception and self interest on the other. A set of coherent support and control polices for family relations are developed which endorse this awareness and embrace a fundamental shift in perspective for future progressive governments.
The Future of Families to 2030
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Published: 2011-12-22
Total Pages: 283
ISBN-13: 9264168362
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis report explores likely future changes in family and household structures in OECD countries; identifies the main forces shaping the family landscape to 2030; discusses the longer-term challenges; and suggests policy options for managing the challenges.
