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Realising Participation: Elderly People as Active Users of Health and Social Care

Realising Participation: Elderly People as Active Users of Health and Social Care

Roberts, Kathryn
Chapman, Tom

Paperback

Series: Routledge Revivals

General SociologyPoverty & Social Work

ISBN10: 1138631043
ISBN13: 9781138631045
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jan 28 2019
Pages: 264
Weight: 0.79
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
This title was first published in 2001: During the last twenty years government rhetoric in the UK has increasingly advocated that statutory health and social care services should regard and treat recipients as 'consumers' in the same way as companies and organizations in the private sector. This involves a considerable cultural change on the part of both service providers and their clients, and this timely study explores the extent to which such a cultural change is actually taking place in British society. The utilization of welfare services by a sample of people aged 70 and above on discharge from inpatient care and in a short period afterwards is examined as a critical testbed for key components of consumerism, including participation, representation, access, choice, information and redress. The book explores not only the extent to which opportunities are being provided for users to play an active role in their care, but also their degree of willingness to assume such a role.

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