Community Care Services for the Mentally Ill: Consumers' Views

Geraldine Macdonald and Brian Sheldon
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Geraldine Macdonald: Royal Holloway Cochrane Research Fellow, Green College, Oxford
Brian Sheldon: Department of Social Policy & Social Science, Royal Holloway, University of London

International Journal of Social Psychiatry, 1997, vol. 43, issue 1, 35-55

Abstract: In this study a broadly representative sample of clients in the City of Westminster, receiving Care in the Community for reasons of mental ill-health, were interviewed regarding their experiences of, and levels of satisfaction with, services provided. The results reveal the vulnerability of services users, the benefits of community care, the high regard the majority have for their helpers, the limitations imposed by scarce resources, and the negative effects of only loose co-ordination between health and social services. Respondents also provide a rich source of data on how services might be improved.

Date: 1997
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DOI: 10.1177/002076409704300104

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