Shelter with care and the community care reforms

Bleddyn Davies (1996)

in Raymond Jack (ed.) Residential Versus Community Care: The Role of Institutions in Welfare Provision Macmillan, London 71-111

Abstract

Bruce Vladeck wrote that the American nursing home was like the story of the mule in the settlement of the West. Without it, the history would have been different. But it was simply not the main focus for anyone, certainly not for those living through