'Share the Care'
An Evaluation of a Family-Based Respite Care Service
Kirsten Stalker
Hardback: £25.00 / $49.95
1994, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 160pp
ISBN: 978-1-85302-038-4, BIC 2: JKS
The provision of respite care within families is a relatively new development and the ad hoc nature of individual schemes has resulted in a great variation in their character; relatively little research has been carried out into the policy and practice of this important development in community care. 'Share the Care' examines: the different ways in which respite care schemes operate, focusing in particular on the Share-the-Care service in Lothian; the experience of parents of children with learning difficulties of using the scheme; respite carers: who joins the scheme and why, their perceptions of its rewards and dissatisfactions, and their experience of social work support; the less positive effects of separation upon the children themselves; families facing an extended wait for respite; families who withdraw from the scheme.
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