Long-Term Care: Matching Resources and Needs - David Challis

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Résumé :
Improving equity and efficiency in the long-term care of older people is an international concern, with governments attempting to ensure that policies and practice develop so that resources are used to best effect. This requires good quality evidence founded on sound theory. This volume honours the outstanding contribution of Bleddyn Davies to this field, bringing together perspectives of scholars and practitioners from many countries including the UK, Australia, Hong Kong, Japan, Sweden and the USA. Contemporary policy dilemmas are considered, leavened by professional anecdote. A chapter from Davies himself, reflecting on the origins of the PSSRU (Personal Social Services Research Unit), concludes the volume that also features a full listing of his books and monographs, which will prove invaluable to those seeking to engage with his contribution to the field. This volume will greatly interest academics in social policy, social work, gerontology and social care as well as professionals in the field....

Biographie:
Contents: Introduction: Bleddyn Davies, Martin Knapp, Jos uis Fern?ndez, David Challis and Ann Netten. Long-term care in the United Kingdom: Long-term care for older people in the United Kingdom: structure and challenges, Adelina Comas-Herrera, Raphael Wittenberg and Linda Pickard...

Sommaire:
David Challis...