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Future imperfect : report of the King's Fund Care and Support Inquiry

Author:

Henwood, Melanie and King's Fund

Publication date:

2001

Abstract:

This inquiry concludes that care and support for older and disabled people could collapse unless the Government allocates at least £700 million extra to social services each year. It shows that Britain's estimated one million care and support workers exist on low pay, with poor training, inadequate support from their ...
Through a glass darkly : community care and elderly people

Author:

King's Fund Institute (King Edward's Hospital Fund for London) and Henwood, Melanie

Publication date:

1992

Abstract:

The care of elderly people is a matter of both increasing urgency and major uncertainty. Community care policies have come under increasing scrutiny over the past decade, and three factors have been particularly influential: an awareness of an ageing population, allied with other demographic and social changes that are likely ...