Managing vulnerability : the underlying dynamics of systems of care / Tim Dartington
- Author
- Dartington, T. (Tim)
- Published
- London : Karnac, [2010]
- Copyright Date
- ©2010
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (xxi, 234 pages) : illustrations
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- Series
- Contents
- Individual survival and organizational life. Thinking about systems of care ; The gang in the organization ; Self and identity : defences against vulnerability ; The question of dependency ; The pursuit of common unhappiness -- The survival of the unfittest. The management challenge ; The isolation of care services ; Mediating between systems ; The case for integration ; Human nature and organizational change ; True and false relationship in health and social care ; The costs of care -- The personal and the professional. An Alzheimer's case study ; My unfaithful brain : a journey into Alzheimer's Disease / Anna Dartington (with Rebekah Pratt) ; Learning to live with dementia ; Two weeks in 2006 ; The realities of care ; Postscript : learning from experience -- Conclusions. Reflections on partnership : can we allow systems to care?
- Summary
- Clinicians, managers and researchers - as well as politicians and religious leaders - are worrying about a lack of compassion and humanity in the care of vulnerable people in society. In this book Tim Dartington explores the dynamics of care. He argues that we know how to do it, but somehow we seem to keep getting it wrong. Poor care in hospitals and care homes is well documented, and yet it continues. Care for people in their own homes is seen as an ideal, but the reality can be cruel and isolating. Tim describes research over forty years in thinking why institutional and community care are bo.
- Subject(s)
- Medical care
- Medical ethics
- Social service—Moral and ethical aspects
- Social service
- National health services
- Social Work
- Ethics, Medical
- Health Services
- Patient Care
- Éthique médicale
- Service social—Aspect moral
- Service social
- Services de santé
- Soins médicaux
- POLITICAL SCIENCE—Public Policy—Social Services & Welfare
- POLITICAL SCIENCE—Public Policy—Social Security
- ISBN
- 9781849407304 (electronic bk.)
1849407304 (electronic bk.)
9781780492360 (electronic bk.)
1780492367 (electronic bk.)
9781855758889
1855758881 - Digital File Characteristics
- text file
- Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-226) and index.
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