One Personal social services: developments in adult social care
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Caroline Glendinning
Abstract
This chapter examines policy developments in 2005 in social care for adults and older people, focusing on three key policy documents covering disabled people, adult social care and older people. It notes that the policies proposed seek to promote active citizenship, social inclusion, independence, an improved quality of life and enhance well-being. It explains that services relevant to these aims are envisaged as extending more broadly than those that have traditionally been considered the province of social care provision, including resources such as leisure, transport and housing support. It identifies a number of important problems in using individual consumer choice in quasi-markets as the means for ensuring equitable and appropriate social care provision. The chapter also identifies some important unresolved issues about the relationship between the direction of policy in relation to social care and current developments in the health service.
Abstract
This chapter examines policy developments in 2005 in social care for adults and older people, focusing on three key policy documents covering disabled people, adult social care and older people. It notes that the policies proposed seek to promote active citizenship, social inclusion, independence, an improved quality of life and enhance well-being. It explains that services relevant to these aims are envisaged as extending more broadly than those that have traditionally been considered the province of social care provision, including resources such as leisure, transport and housing support. It identifies a number of important problems in using individual consumer choice in quasi-markets as the means for ensuring equitable and appropriate social care provision. The chapter also identifies some important unresolved issues about the relationship between the direction of policy in relation to social care and current developments in the health service.
Chapters in this book
- Front Matter i
- Contents iii
- List of figures and tables v
- List of contributors vi
- Introduction 1
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Key areas of social policy
- Personal social services: developments in adult social care 15
- Creating a patient-led NHS: empowering ‘consumers’ or shrinking the state? 33
- A ‘pivotal moment’? Education policy in England, 2005 49
- Strategic pragmatism? The state of British housing policy 65
- Social security policies in 2005 83
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Health and well-being
- More than a matter of choice? Consumerism and the modernisation of health care 101
- Being well and well-being: the value of community and professional concepts in understanding positive health 121
- Happiness and social policy: barking up the right tree in the wrong neck of the woods 145
- Using health and subjective wellbeing for quality of life measurement: a review 165
- Community well-being strategy and the legacies of new institutionalism and New Public Management in third way New Zealand 193
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Ageing and employment
- Extending working life: problems and prospects for social and public policy 221
- Age discrimination in history 249
- Training and learning in the workplace: can we legislate against age discriminatory practices? 269
- Ageing and employment: looking back, looking forward 293
- Index 313
Chapters in this book
- Front Matter i
- Contents iii
- List of figures and tables v
- List of contributors vi
- Introduction 1
-
Key areas of social policy
- Personal social services: developments in adult social care 15
- Creating a patient-led NHS: empowering ‘consumers’ or shrinking the state? 33
- A ‘pivotal moment’? Education policy in England, 2005 49
- Strategic pragmatism? The state of British housing policy 65
- Social security policies in 2005 83
-
Health and well-being
- More than a matter of choice? Consumerism and the modernisation of health care 101
- Being well and well-being: the value of community and professional concepts in understanding positive health 121
- Happiness and social policy: barking up the right tree in the wrong neck of the woods 145
- Using health and subjective wellbeing for quality of life measurement: a review 165
- Community well-being strategy and the legacies of new institutionalism and New Public Management in third way New Zealand 193
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Ageing and employment
- Extending working life: problems and prospects for social and public policy 221
- Age discrimination in history 249
- Training and learning in the workplace: can we legislate against age discriminatory practices? 269
- Ageing and employment: looking back, looking forward 293
- Index 313
