Reflections on Community Development, Preventative Care, and Ageing

Fiona Verity, Frances H. Barker, Jonathan Richards, Simon Read and Mark Llewellyn
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Fiona Verity: School of Health and Social Care, Swansea University, UK / Department of Health Sciences, Brunel University, UK
Frances H. Barker: Solva Care, UK
Jonathan Richards: Welsh Institute for Health and Social Care, University of South Wales, UK
Simon Read: School of Health and Social Care, Swansea University, UK
Mark Llewellyn: Welsh Institute for Health and Social Care, University of South Wales, UK

Social Inclusion, 2024, vol. 12

Abstract: Recently there has been a chorus of demands to “re‐imagine” social care. Community and faith‐based organisations, policy, and academic communities are engaged in discussions on issues such as human rights for older populations, the future of residential care, how to better support family/community care, and strengthen local place‐based community development. Moreover, the Covid‐19 pandemic has added new urgency to this mission, galvanizing developments for change and collective action and exposing public troubles of endemic system failings, prevailing discourses of ageism, tensions with health systems, and limitations of market models of care and support. Prevention is a central social welfare principle in many countries. It is associated with policy and practices that aim to meet social care needs early and is explored in this thematic issue.

Keywords: ageing; community development; human rights; inclusion values; old age; preventive care; principles (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.17645/si.8007

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