Radical Approaches to the Care Crisis
Solidarity, Community and a National Care Service
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Bristol University Press
Publishing:4th Apr '25
£24.99
This title is due to be published on 4th April, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
This book explores the critical issue of how to manage the ever-increasing demand for social care in Britain’s ageing society. With informal care, from family members and friends, now the dominant form of adult social care in the UK, this precarious system is struggling to provide enough support.
Exploring the relationship between formal and informal care, this book develops ideas for a ‘caring economy’, showing the potential to integrate paid-for and unpaid care within a framework of solidarity based on the strengths of the community, working to improve the quality and quantity of state-funded care provision while sharing unpaid support more widely as a community responsibility.
“An important and thought-provoking contribution to the vital debate about how we meet the growing care and support needs of an ageing population.” Richard Humphries, Health Foundation
“Drawing on COVID-19 experiences of mutual aid and other initiatives, Anne Gray skilfully presents solutions to the current UK care ‘crisis’. Her wide-ranging analyses, combined with multiple examples, go beyond care-related policies to community development, neighbourhood action and prevention of ill-health investments, as well as the economic and value-led rationales for taking action.” Jill Manthorpe CBE, The Policy Institute at King's College London (emerita)
“An impressive book that addresses how to manage the care needs of an ageing population through a combination of paid and unpaid care. An important resource for social care scholars, policy makers and practitioners.” Kelly Hall, University of Birmingham
ISBN: 9781447374084
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208 pages