Quick guide to community care practice and the law / Michael Mandelstam.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mandelstam, Michael, 1956-

Series:

Quick Guides Social & Health Care Law & Practice

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Community health services--Law and legislation--Great Britain.

Community health services.

Public welfare--Law and legislation--Great Britain.

Public welfare.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (196 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; Philadelphia : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This short guide cuts through the confusing mass of legislation to provide a concise and jargon-free explanation of current community care practice and the law. It is an essential resource for busy practitioners at all levels as well as managers in both the statutory and voluntary sectors, and policy-makers in local authorities and the NHS.

Contents:

FRONT COVER; Quick Guide to Community Care Practice and the Law; Contents; PREFACE; 1. Introduction; 2. How community care law and practice works; 3. When things go wrong; 4. Getting a community care assessment and getting services; 5. Community care services: care homes; 6. Community care services: help in people's own homes; 7. Informal carers; 8. Direct payments: giving people money; 9. Personalisation and safeguarding adults; 10. Asylum and immigration; 11. Ordinary residence; 12. Home adaptations; 13. The National Health Service; 14. NHS continuing health care

15. Mental capacity, human rights, and disability discrimination Chapter 16 Health and safety at work legislation, and the law of negligence; INDEX; back cover

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781283904995

1283904993

9780857003737

0857003739

OCLC:

699510391