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Handbook on Aging and Place
Edited by Malcolm Cutchin, Graham D. Rowles
Moving away from studies of aging in place, this forward-looking Handbook focuses on aging and place, offering a broader scope and more nuanced, complex and enlightening understanding of these two intertwined universals of human experien... -
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Single Parents and Child Support Systems
Edited by Kay Cook, Thomas Meysen, Adrienne Byrt
Taking a novel approach to child support policy analysis, Single Parents and Child Support Systems locates the transfer of payments between separated parents within a wider social policy ecosystem and compares the political, institutiona... -
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A Research Agenda for Ageing and Social Policy
Edited by Kai Leichsenring, Alexandre Sidorenko
Foreword by Alan Walker, Professor of Social Policy and Social Gerontology, University of Sheffield, UK Written by a global collective of scholars from a wide variety of backgrounds, including health studies, psychology and economics as... -
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The Future of Social Care
Peter Beresford, Colin Slasberg
This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 License. It is free to read, download and share on Elgaronline.com. Foreword by David Brindle In the face of major global demographic change, social care polic... -
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A Research Agenda for Public Attitudes to Welfare
Edited by Femke Roosma, Tijs Laenen
Bringing together contributions from a diverse range of international scholars, A Research Agenda for Public Attitudes to Welfare draws upon past and contemporary research methods used to study citizens’ attitudes to welfare. It highligh...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Teaching Social Work
Neil Thompson
There are particular challenges involved in teaching social work. As with other professional disciplines, it is not simply a matter of passing on the key elements of the knowledge base; there is also the need to equip students to be able...eBook:Find out more$37.60
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Care Homes in a Turbulent Era
Edited by Pat Armstrong, Susan Braedley
This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 License. It is free to read, download and share on Elgaronline.com. This thoughtful book provides a refreshing, comparative perspective on the future of care ho...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Research Handbook on Disability Policy
Edited by Sally Robinson, Karen R. Fisher
Examining how policy affects the human rights of people with disabilities, this topical Handbook presents diverse empirical experiences of disability policy and identifies the changes that are necessary to achieve social justice.eBook:Find out more$65.00
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Home Care for Ageing Populations
Martha Doyle, Virpi Timonen
This book presents an up-to-date comparative analysis of domiciliary care policies for the older populations of Denmark, the United States and Germany with a particular focus on similarities and differences between these care regimes. -
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Regulating Aged Care
John Braithwaite, Toni Makkai, Valerie Braithwaite
This book is a major contribution to regulatory theory from three members of the world-class regulatory research group based in Australia. It marks a new development in responsive regulatory theory in which a strengths-based pyramid comp...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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THE VOLUNTARY SECTOR, THE STATE AND SOCIAL WORK IN BRITAIN
Jane Lewis
The Voluntary Sector, the State and Social Work in Britain offers a different perspective which shows that Britain has always had a mixed economy of welfare with the voluntary sector playing a major role. This book traces the ideas and ... -
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Environmental Problems in the Shortage Economy
Ann-Mari S. Åhlander
Environmental Problems in the Shortage Economy is one of the first books to analyse environmental disruption under the Soviet economic system. Using original Soviet data the author shows that considerable damage has been done to the envi...
