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A new health and care system : escaping the invisible asylum / Alex Fox.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fox, Alex (CEO of Shared Lives Plus), author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- People with mental disabilities--Care.
- People with mental disabilities.
- People with disabilities--Care.
- People with disabilities.
- Life care planning.
- Human services.
- Social service.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 244 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Bristol, UK ; Chicago, IL, USA : Policy Press, 2018.
- Summary:
- "How do we find sustainable and human ways to care for people with long-term needs? This book reveals the ways in which public services squander the potential of people with long-term support needs and the creativity and caring capacity of front line workers"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- How we divide the world into community and asylum
- How we create problems by trying to fix them
- Why failure pays, but success costs
- Risk aversion and risk indifference
- The humanisation experiment
- Shared lives
- Designing a new national health and wellbeing service
- Delivering the national health and wellbeing service.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-233) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781447341673
- 1447341678
- OCLC:
- 1003821936
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