Beschreibung:
This important book examines issues and policy responses at national, international and conceptual levels.
Part I. What's the Problem?: 1. The issues; 2. The Australian policy response; Part II. What's the Practice?: 3. De-institutionalisation and the aged care reform strategy; 4. The feminisation of ageing; 5. Regulating the quality of care; 6. Implementing user rights strategies; Part III. Reconceptualising Problems, Reorienting Solutions: 7. The 'problem of old women' redefined; 8. The Gordian knot: Defining outcomes; 9. Whose rights? Whose responsibility?; 10. The problem of dependency: Construction and reconstruction; 11. New problems, old solutions.