Understanding Care, Welfare and Community

Preface Part One: Power and Inequality Introduction 1. Unsettled Lives (Extracts) 2. William and Teresa 3. The Effects of Poverty 4. Poverty and the Social Services 5. Witness to Welfare (Extracts) 6. The History of Community Care for People with Learning Difficulties 7.Multiple Oppression and the Disabled People's Movement 8. Campaigning and the Pensioners' Movement 9. Settling in and Moving On 10. Paying for Nursing Home Care Part Two: Difference and Identity Introduction 11. Different Communities (Extracts) 12. The Regeneration of Communities 13. Social Change, Networks and Family Life 14. Problematizing Social Care Needs in Minority Communities 15. A Child's View of Care in the Community 16. Community and Stigma (Extracts) 17. Ageing, Learning Difficulties and Maintaining Independence 18. Whiteness and Emotions in Social Care 19. On Becoming a Disabled Person 20. Remind me who I Am, Again Part Three: Rights and Risks Introduction 21. Risk and Dangerousness 22. Evaluating Self-Determination 23. Out of This World 24. The Prospect of Residential Care 25. Independence, Privacy and Risk 26. Malignant Social Psychology 27. Exposing Abuse in Care Homes 28. Regulating Informality: Small Homes and the Inspectors 29. Community Care Law and the Human Rights Act 1998 30. Self-Advocacy for People with Learning Difficulties Part Four: Territories and Boundaries Introduction 31. Community Care in the Information Age 32. Providing Support (Extracts) 33. Carework and Bodywork 34. European Policies on Home Care Services Compared 35. The Boundaries Between Health and Social Care Assessment in Action 37. The Importance of Housing and Home 38. Partnership Between Disabled People and Service Providers 39. Care as a Commodity 40. Good Companions (Extracts)