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What about the wider social infrastructure of communities that affect the needs that people have? Who should be accountable for how well social care works in meeting people’s needs? These are questions about organisation and delivery.
Richard Humphries • Ending the Social Care Crisis: A New Road to Reform
It gives high priority to preventive health care and supporting activities that help people remain independent and socially engaged,
Richard Humphries • Ending the Social Care Crisis: A New Road to Reform
Sustaining policy-making momentum, securing buy-in and reaching agreement is complex and time-consuming.
Richard Humphries • Ending the Social Care Crisis: A New Road to Reform
In 2001, 179,171 payments totaling $425 million were issued to “claimant representatives,” attorneys mostly, who represented people applying for disability and other benefits. By 2019, 390,809 payments—totaling $1.2 billion—were issued.[19]
Matthew Desmond • Poverty, by America
National Care Service proposals in 2010
Richard Humphries • Ending the Social Care Crisis: A New Road to Reform
disability movements in the USA.
Richard Humphries • Ending the Social Care Crisis: A New Road to Reform
In truth, although older people – defined in this book as aged 65 and over (though whether 65 is really that old any more is another matter) – are the biggest group of people who use council-funded social care, the number has been falling in recent years, despite our ageing population.