Community care as an alternative to state welfare

Marsland, David; Means, Robin; Langan, Joan

Abstract

This paper challenges prevailing notions of community and community care. It exposes some of the confusions associated with current thinking and offers a more realistic interpretation, drawing upon the roots of the idea of community. By this standard, genuine community care is to be regarded as an alternative to state welfare, which it might serve to replace or complement.

• Journal Article Type: Review
• Publication Date: Jan 1, 1996
• Journal: Social Policy and Administration
• Print ISSN: 0144-5596
• Publisher: Wiley
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 30
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 183-188
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9515.1996.tb00553.x
• Keywords: community care, elderly people, dementia
• Public URL: https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/1104259
• Publisher URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9515.1996.tb00553.x