Equipment for Older or Disabled People and the Law

Michael Mandelstam

Paperback: £34.95 / $62.95

1996, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 600pp
ISBN: 978-1-85302-352-1, BIC 2: JKSN JKS JKSG LNTJ

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PART I: 1. Introduction 2. Main themes of the book 3. Overview of provision of equipment in practice. 4. Equipment and awareness of the law. 5. When things go wrong. 6. What statutory services and their staff can and can't do. PART II: 7. Provision of equipment by social services departments. 8. Provision of equipment by the NHS. 9. Provision of equipment in residential and nursing homes. 10. Provision of home adaptations by housing authorities and social services departments. 11. Provision of equipment for pupils and students with special educational needs. 12. Provision of equipment and adaptations for work. 13. War pensioners: provision of equipment and adaptations. PART III: 14. Negligence. 15. Product liability, safety and legislative requirements. 16. Buying equipment and making contracts 17. Challenging the decisions of statutory services about equipment provision: judicial review. 18. Breach of duties in relation to equipment: criminal and civil liability. PART IV: AZ List of types of equipment and its availability through statutory services.

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Author information

• Michael Mandelstam

Subject areas

• Disability
• Health, Social Work and Social Care

Keywords

• disability,
• disability law,
• older people,
• social work law

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