This comprehensive book explains the provision, both law and
practice, of equipment and home adaptations to assist older or
disabled people in daily living. Characterised by ill-defined
statutory responsibilities and terminology, and an under-developed
consumer retail market, the system of provision has long been
recognised as chaotic and confusing for professionals and public
alike. This is despite the fact that equipment and adaptations are
meant to be a central plank of community care. Necessarily
wide-ranging but maintaining its focus, the book aims critically to
describe the system and thereby promote better practice. By
exploring boundaries and breaking points of the system, it will
also assist people to understand the law when things go wrong -
from negligence to judicial review, and from contract to product
safety legislation. Providing both overviews and extensive details,
and so capable of use on various levels, the book will be
indispensable to managers and practitioners in statutory services
(social services, the NHS, housing, education and employment),
advice agencies, voluntary organisations, manufacturers and
suppliers, educational institutions, and lawyers. The range of
items covered is great, from alarms to artificial limbs, baths to
bedrooms, chopping boards to crutches, electronic toothbrushes to
environmental controls, hearing aids to hoists, incontinence pads
to ironing equipment, rails to ramps, speech aids to stairlifts,
and walking frames to wheelchairs. Part I summarises provision and
picks out main themes - including conflicts, contradictions and
anxieties - emerging from a complex web of legislation, common law,
guidance, everyday practices, complaints procedures, ombudsmen,
formal legal remedies, broader welfare and consumer issues, and
interaction of the public, private and voluntary sectors. It is
pointed out that the rationing and fragmentation of welfare
services, proliferation of community care legislation and guidance,
and implementation of European Community Directives have merely
added to the complexity. Part II explains systematically and in
detail how, and on what legal basis, equipment and adaptations are
provided by statutory services for people's social care, health
care, housing, education and employment needs. Also covered is
provision for people in residential and nursing homes. Spanning
disparate areas of law, Part III illustrates what happens when
things go wrong - outlining the law of negligence, and contractual
issues arising about price, quality and `fitness of purpose' when
people buy their own equipment. It discusses increasingly prominent
European Community Directives and UK Regulations which impose legal
liability in relation to defective products, lifting and handling,
medical devices and general product safety. Both judicial review by
the law courts and investigations by the ombudsmen are described,
crucial remedies when people challenge - or statutory services
defend - assessments, service delivery and rationing. Finally, Part
IV lists, A-Z, equipment types from Air beds to Writing equipment,
detailing what they are, how they are provided and by whom.
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