The Changing Geography of Care

A Companion to Health and Medical Geography

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 567-586

  Milligan, Christine ^a   Power, Andrew ^b  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Care and shifting welfare regimes; Changing geography of care; Changing place of care from institutional to community based care; Debate about state versus individual responsibilities to care; Ethics of care considered across spatial scale range; Experiencing changing geographies of care and experiences of voluntary sector; Future directions for a geography of care; Good care versus bad care; Human geography and emergence of wide ranging debate around care; Shift from care delivered by health professionals to social care, voluntary sector, and family

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889304671     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444314762.ch29     Document Type: Chapter

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