'What matters is what works'? How discourses of modernization have both silenced and limited debate on domiciliary care for older people

Critical Social Policy

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 5-30

  Scourfield, Peter ^a  

^a ANGLIA RUSKIN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Modernizing social services; Quasi markets

Indexed keywords

ELDERLY CARE; MODERNIZATION; SOCIAL POLICY;

EID: 33646234272     PISSN: 02610183     EISSN: 1461703X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0261018306059764     Document Type: Article

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