Evaluating Services and the Consumer's Perspective, Jacqueline Atkinson and Laurie Elliott; EPIC - A Scottish Case Management Experience, Rosemary Bland; Case Management and Community Care: The Issues Reviewed, David Challis; The Role of the Voluntary Sector in the New Community Care, Ann Connor; Recent Developments in Health Services Policy: Impact of NHS Reforms on Community Care, David Hunter; Developing Dementia Services, Jan Killeen; The Best Move I've Made: The Role of Housing for Those with Mental Health Problems, Alison Petch; Care Planning and Case Management Strategies, Denis Rowley; Developments for Adults with Learning Difficulties, Philip Seed; Moving Chronically Mentally Ill Persons from Hospital to the Community, Paul Siniic; Caring for People in the Community, Michael Titterton. Housing and Community Care, Michael Titterton and Susan Purdon; Issues in Community Mental Health, Ian Weddle; Community Care Futures: Inter-Agency Perspectives, Gerald Wistow.
Critically examines the new agenda of welfare and assesses the implications for change for policy makers, formal and informal carers, and consumers. The book should be of interest to policy makers, health, local authority and voluntary sector managers and their staff, teachers and students, and others concerned with the development of community care. It includes critical surveys of new policy developments in care in the community; assessments of recent trends in patterns of care for priority groups; examinations of key topics such as care management and interagency collaboration; and evaluations of service developments and innovations.