Costs of Caring - Families With Disabled Children

First published in 1985, this book considers the financial consequences of parents and other relatives caring for severely disabled children at home, at the time. The volume interweaves hard statistical material about money with the detailed personal responses of parents. Although published originally in 1985, it references issues that are still important today and, whilst its main concern is families with disabled children, it will also be useful to anyone caring for other kinds of dependent people, such as the elderly.

List of contents

Acknowledgements; Introduction 1. Financial provision for disablement in children: emergence of the policy issue 2. Disabled children- rights to compensation? 3. Measuring the costs of disablement 4. The study- design and methods 5. Incomes 6. Expenditure 7. The overall effect- ways of coping and expectations of help 8. Conclusions; Appendix 1 Research methodology; Appendix 2 Case study: Andrew Cole; Notes and references; Index

About the author

Sally Baldwin

Product details

• Authors: Sally Baldwin, Baldwin Sally
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.03.2017
• EAN: 9781138951068
• ISBN: 978-1-138-95106-8
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: Routledge Library Editions: Children and Disability
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Sociology, MEDICAL / Health Care Delivery, Personal & public health, Social welfare & social services, Disability: social aspects, Medical Sociology, Personal and public health / health education, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disability, HEALTH & FITNESS / Children & Adolescents, Social welfare, social policy and social services