1st Edition
Care Management in Social and Primary Health Care The Gateshead Community Care Scheme
274 Pages
by
Routledge
274 Pages
by
Routledge
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This title was first published in 2003: This book provides an evaluation of the Gateshead Community Care Scheme which was devised as an alternative to residential and hospital care for frail elderly people. An important feature of the scheme was the decentralization of control of resources to individual social workers acting as care managers, with defined caseloads and expenditure limits to ensure... Read more
Contents: Care management, co-ordinated and integrated care; Service context and research design; Care management in the social care scheme; The role of helpers and their experience of the scheme; Responding to particular needs; Outcomes for older people; Outcomes for carers; Costs and outcomes of care; Integrated provision: bringing together social care and primary health care; Intensive care management and community care; References; Indices.
Biography
Challis, David; Chesterman, John; Luckett, Rosemary; Stewart, Karen
