Peter C. Bibby
Ashgate
Hardback
304
1996
This is an evaluation of an innovative service designed to enable frail elderly people, who would otherwise need long-stay hospital care, to remain in their own homes. Care managers with devolved budgets were located in a Geriatric Multi Disciplinary Team. They were responsible for coordinating packages of care and allocating the time of home care assistants, multi-purpose workers who assisted health care staff and undertook domestic and personal care tasks. The service spanned the health and social care divide.