The Essentials of Community Care: A Guide for Practitioners

The Essentials of Community Care: A Guide for Practitioners

by PeterSharkey (Author)

Synopsis

This is a basic guide to community care aimed at both health and social care practitioners. It offers a clear and reader-friendly introduction to policy and practice, covering both the background to, and the structure and dynamics of, contemporary policy and provision. Networks and boundaries of care are discussed, including formal and informal care and multiprofessional working, as are the skills of assessment and care management and issues such as user empowerment and abuse.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 192
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 08 May 2000

ISBN 10: 033377289X
ISBN 13: 9780333772898

Author Bio
PETER SHARKEY is Lecturer in the School of Law, Social Work and Social Policy, Liverpool John Moores University. He is the author of Introducing Community Care (Collins Educational, 1995). AE(00): Consultant Editor: Jo Campling