Aged Care
Aged Care
Old Policies, New Problems
Diane Gibson, Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, Canberra
January 1998
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The aging of the population is a demographic phenomenon, a social problem and a policy issue. The numbers of aged and the cost of supporting and caring for them are increasing, as is the feminization of aging. Diane Gibson provides a broad overview of the issues and policy responses worldwide, and an in-depth study of Australia--a country with typical problems and some world-leading solutions. She also offers a more conceptual look at theoretical implications and practical consequences. This book will set new standards for aged care policy and practice worldwide.
- Clearly written in accessible, non-technical style
- Full of applications to and examples from a wide range of genuine public policy debates
- Multi-disciplinary, crossing sociology, political science, gerontology, policy science, philosophy
Product details
January 1998Paperback
9780521559577
266 pages
229 × 152 × 15 mm
0.4kg
3 b/w illus. 17 tables
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Table of Contents
- Part I. What's the Problem?:
- 1. The issues
- 2. The Australian policy response
- Part II. What's the Practice?:
- 3. De-institutionalisation and the aged care reform strategy
- 4. The feminisation of ageing
- 5. Regulating the quality of care
- 6. Implementing user rights strategies
- Part III. Reconceptualising Problems, Reorienting Solutions:
- 7. The 'problem of old women' redefined
- 8. The Gordian knot: Defining outcomes
- 9. Whose rights? Whose responsibility?
- 10. The problem of dependency: Construction and reconstruction
- 11. New problems, old solutions.
