Articles on Medical Diseases and Conditions

‘Community care’ is the general name given to services provided to help people with an illness or disability to continue to live in their own homes. At the same time, there has been an associated policy to provide sheltered housing and residential and nursing homes in ‘the community’ for such people who cannot continue to […]

The variety of care is very substantial. In fact the word ‘care’ is used in such a range of ways that, to a degree, it has lost much of its original and particular meaning. In this chapter we focus on ‘care’ in the sense of the formal provision of services by mainly statutory health or […]