Elderly People: Choice, Participation and Satisfaction
Isobel Allen, Debra Hogg and Sheila Peace
How much choice do elderly people have in the community care services they receive? How much say do they have in decisions about how, when and where the services are delivered and who provides them? And how satisfied are they with the result? This book examines these and other key questions by looking at the views and experience of 200 elderly people over 75, half of whom were living in the community and half of whom had recently entered residential care.
£19.95 paperback ISBN 0 85374 510 2
1992 320 pages 229 x 145mm
Report number 730
Contents:
2 Elderly people in the community: informal care
3 Elderly people in the community: formal care
4 Choice and participation in the package of care
5 At the margin of residential care
6 Elderly people in residential care: informal care
7 Elderly people in residential care: formal care
8 The move into residential care
9 Living in a residential home
10 The social work task in the community
11 Getting into the system: the professional view
12 Residential care: the professional view
13 Views on the future of social work with elderly people
15 Policy implications of key findings
Appendix 2 Sampling and methods
Appendix tables
