Caring in Crisis

The Search for Reasons and Post-Pandemic Remedies

Häftad, Engelska, 2023

AvGillian Dalley

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This book examines a familiar and contemporary social policy issue—the crisis besetting social care—but differs from usual accounts by including additional perspectives (philosophical, ethical and political) not often raised but nonetheless crucial to understanding the issue.

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Utgivningsdatum2023-05-29
Mått148 x 210 x undefined mm
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor225
FörlagSpringer Nature Switzerland AG
ISBN9783030980009

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Gillian Dalley is a social anthropologist and has been an independent researcher for more than a decade, completing most recently a project on the financial abuse of people lacking mental capacity, for Brunel University London, funded by the Dawes Trust. She is the author of Ideologies of Caring: Rethinking community and collectivism, and, in a long career, has worked for several London-based organisations including the King’s Fund, the Policy Studies Institute and the Centre for Policy on Ageing, as well as working as a senior NHS quality manager, and as a researcher at the former MRC Medical Sociology Unit in Aberdeen in the early 1980s.

Chapter 1.Social care: how did it come to this?.- Chapter 2.Ethics and ideologies of caring.- Chapter 3.The advent of the welfare state: institutions, professionals and activists.- Chapter 4.Health and social care: the purchaser/provider split.- Chapter 5.Opening the window on social care: contracts and quality control.- Chapter 6.An alternative view: public services in public hands.- Chapter 7.Catastrophe: the impact of Covid 19 and the consequences for social care.- Chapter 8.Social care: principle, policy and practice now and to come.

“Thoroughly researched and full of well-considered insights, I have given Gillian Dalley’s Caring in Crisis – The Search for Reasons and Post-Pandemic Remedies a permanent place among my reference works. But Caring in Crisis is much more than a reference work. In writing this very readable book, Dr Dalley has done social care a valuable service … .” (Geoff Hodgson, Care Commentary, care-commentary.co.uk, January 5, 2023)