Quick guide to community care practice and the law [[electronic resource] /] / Michael Mandelstam

• Autore: Mandelstam Michael <1956->
• Pubblicazione: London ; ; Philadelphia, : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2010
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (196 p.)
• Disciplina: 344.4103/16; 344.410313
• Soggetto topico: Community health services - Law and legislation - Great Britain; Public welfare - Law and legislation - Great Britain
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Quick guide to community care practice and the law
• ISBN: 1-283-90499-3; 0-85700-373-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910818419303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Quick Guides Social & Health Care Law & Practice