Clinicians, managers and researchers--as well as politicians and
religious leaders--are worrying about a lack of compassion and
humanity in the care of vulnerable people in society.In this book
Tim Dartington explores the dynamics of care. He argues that we
know how to do it, but somehow we seem to keep getting it wrong.
Poor care in hospitals and care homes is well documented, and yet
it continues. Care for people in their own homes is seen as an
ideal, but the reality can be cruel and isolating. Tim describes
research over forty years in thinking why institutional and
community care are both subject to processes of denial and fear of
dependency.His examples include children in hospital, people with
disabilities living in the community, and the care of older people
and those with dementia. He asks why there has been such a split
between health and social care and what underlying purpose this
split may have in a societal response to vulnerability and
long-term dependency. He also explores the implications of such
dynamics of care in a vivid case study, drawn from his own
experience, of the care as it developed over six years around a
vulnerable person living and dying at home.
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