Care Management in Social and Primary Health Care

Name: Care Management in Social and Primary Health Care
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

This title was first published in 2003: The Gateshead Community Care Scheme marked a unique departure in the development Community Care for older people. This book charts the impact of the scheme, which devolved resource control to individual social workers acting as care managers, with defined caseloads and expenditure. > This title was first published in 2003: This book provides an evaluation of the Gateshead Community Care Scheme which was devised as an alternative to residential and hospital care for frail elderly people. An important feature of the scheme was the decentralization of control of resources to individual social workers acting as care managers, with defined caseloads and expenditure limits to ensure accountability. The initial social social care scheme was subsequently extended to provide both health and social care to clients from a large general practice based in a health centre. The social care team was enlarged to include a nurse care manager and part-time docn