Gender and Community Care by Jo Campling, Joan Orme - 9780333619896

Gender and Community CareSocial Work and Social Care Perspectives\nAuthor(s): Jo Campling, Joan Orme\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom\nImprint: Red Globe Press\nISBN-13: 9780333619896, 978-0333619896\nSynopsis\nAre there differences in the way that men and women care? Are the care needs of women and men perceived as being different? What do we mean by community? Is being cared for always a positive experience? How can social workers and social care workers work positively with individual differences?\n\nMuch has been written about both the formal and informal provision of community care, and women's role within this. However, less attention has been paid to the users of community care services. Usually described in terms of being old, disabled, or experiencing mental health problems, service users are assumed to fit into homogeneous groups, their race and gender made invisible by the needs or problems they present.\n\nThis book takes the experi.