Social Policy and Elderly People : The Role of Community Care Book

	Introduction : Community care and elderly people in the 1990s
1	Challenging invisibility of carers: Mapping informal care nationally	1
2	Eldercare and the labour market: Combining care and work	30
3	Respite care: Factors influencing consumer perceptions of quality and acceptability	49
4	Neighbourhood support units: A new approach to the care of older people	74
5	Domiciliary services and dependency: A meaningful relationship?	96
6	Elderly living at home: The relation of social and material resources to service use	112
7	Case management	137
8	Measuring consumer satisfaction with the community nursing service: An evaluation of two questionnaires	163
9	Using housing to fund care	183
10	Care and repair	200
11	Residential and nursing homes for elderly people: One sector or two?	216
12	Institutional care	245
13	Do we need institutional care?	259
	Acknowledgements	276
	List of contributors	277