Vulnerable adults and community care / edited by Keith Brown.

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

This new text supports students undertaking post-qualifying social work awards in community care and working with vulnerable adults. Recent government policy has ensured this area has seen plenty of change and this is reflected in the choice of topics which include welfare policy, mental health in later life and adult protection for vulnerable adults. The book is made up of self contained chapters to support students′ learning, offering a number of differing and thought provoking viewpoints, enabling them to engage with the client group and to reflect upon their practice in a more meaningful way.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• About the authors
• Foreword to the Post-qualifying Social Work Practice series
• Introduction
• Achieving post-qualifying social work awards
• Welfare policy: Context of community care
• Community care: Assessing needs, risks and rights
• Performance management: Causes and effects and their impact on community care
• The older person's social care and the enabling service
• Intermediate care: Implications for service users
• Do Direct Payments offer people with learning disabilities greater choice and control?
• Caring for older people: Informal care and carers
• Promoting inclusiveness: Developing empowering practice with minority groups of older people - the example of older lesbian women and gay men
• Eclectic models in working with learning disabled people - an overview of some key issues concerning health and wellness
• Adult protection for community care/vulnerable adults
• References
• Index