In answer to popular demand from students and practitioners alike, Braye and Preston-Shoot have produced a guide to understanding the complex area of community care. What are the core components of the Government's community care policy?What do terms like partnership, anti-discriminatory and anti-op…
Change has come rapidly and radically to the NHS in recent years, but the day-today work of clinical departments and the priority of patient care remain. The impact of managing change has fallen on health care staff, who face conflicting demands, rising expectations, policy changes and cost pressur…
Ageism has appeared in the media increasingly over the last twenty years.What is it?How are we affected?How does it relate to services for older people?This book builds bridges between the wider age-conscious culture within which people live their lives and the world of the caring professions. In t…
