Care Management in Social and Primary Health Care - The Gateshead Community Care Scheme

This title was first published in 2003: The Gateshead Community Care Scheme marked a unique departure in the development Community Care for older people. This book charts the impact of the scheme, which devolved resource control to individual social workers acting as care managers, with defined caseloads and expenditure.

List of contents

Contents: Care management, co-ordinated and integrated care; Service context and research design; Care management in the social care scheme; The role of helpers and their experience of the scheme; Responding to particular needs; Outcomes for older people; Outcomes for carers; Costs and outcomes of care; Integrated provision: bringing together social care and primary health care; Intensive care management and community care; References; Indices.

Summary

This title was first published in 2003: The Gateshead Community Care Scheme marked a unique departure in the development Community Care for older people. This book charts the impact of the scheme, which devolved resource control to individual social workers acting as care managers, with defined caseloads and expenditure.

Product details

• Authors: David Challis, David Chesterman Challis, John Chesterman, Chesterman John, Rosemary Luckett, Luckett Rosemary, Karen Stewart, Stewart Karen
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9781138737679
• ISBN: 978-1-138-73767-9
• No. of pages: 262
• Series: Routledge Revivals
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Social structure research; SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, Social issues & processes, Social and ethical issues