Transforming Community Care: A Distorted Vision? Author:Helen Gorman & Karen Postle Edited by: Hefin Gwilym &

Edited by: Hefin Gwilym & Charlotte Williams

Ailsa Stewart

Whereas other work concentrates on the law of Scotland as it relates to adults at risk

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Transforming Community Care: A Distorted Vision? Author:Helen Gorman & Karen Postle Edited by: Hefin Gwilym &The engine of community care is the professional practice of care management. However, its implementation in the managerialist 1990s frustrated the flexible implementation of community care. Gorman and Postle use their detailed research to show powerfully how a generation of social workers have been disillusioned by care management and they use their own practice experience with older people to demonstrate the continuing possibilities for social work