- 256 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About This Book
How do we find sustainable and human ways to care for people with long-term needs?
This book reveals the ways in which public services squander the potential of people with long term support needs and the creativity and caring capacity of front line workers.
Drawing on the ethos, practices and economics of human focused initiatives such as Shared Lives, this book outlines a new model for public services to replace the 'invisible asylum.' This approach, focused on achieving and maintaining wellbeing, rather than on reacting to crisis or attempting to 'fix' people, would both ask of us and offer us more. Responsibilities, resources, and risks would be more fairly and transparently shared. The book offers steps which we all â citizens, front line services, and government â could take to achieve this vision.
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Table of contents
- Coverpage
- Title page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Prologue
- Introduction
- one How we divide the world into community and asylum
- two How we create problems by trying to fix them
- three Why failure pays, but success costs
- four Risk aversion and risk indifference
- five The humanisation experiment
- six Shared Lives
- seven Designing a new national health and wellbeing service
- eight Delivering the national health and wellbeing service
- Can we escape?
- Notes
- References