Radical Approaches to the Care Crisis: Solidarity, Community and a National Care Service

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Anne Gray (Families & Social Capital, South Bank University)

Radical Approaches to the Care Crisis

Solidarity, Community and a National Care Service

Anne Gray (Families & Social Capital, South Bank University)

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English

Policy Press
04 April 2025

Care of the elderly; Public administration; Human rights; Civil rights & citizenship

This book explores the critical issue of how to manage the ever-increasing demand for social care in Britain's ageing society. With informal care, from family members and friends, now the dominant form of adult social care in the UK, this precarious system is struggling to provide enough support.

Exploring the relationship between formal and informal care, this book develops ideas for a 'caring economy', showing the potential to integrate paid-for and unpaid care within a framework of solidarity based on the strengths of the community, working to improve the quality and quantity of state-funded care provision while sharing unpaid support more widely as a community responsibility.

By: Anne Gray (Families & Social Capital South Bank University)
Imprint: Policy Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 140mm,
ISBN: 9781447374084
ISBN 10: 1447374088
Pages: 208
Publication Date: 04 April 2025
Audience: Professional and scholarly , General/trade , Undergraduate , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Anne M. Gray, now retired from London South Bank University, has authored academic papers on older people's social capital, sheltered housing, and loneliness. She is also a campaigning activist for better services for seniors.

Reviews for Radical Approaches to the Care Crisis: Solidarity, Community and a National Care Service

“An important and thought-provoking contribution to the vital debate about how we meet the growing care and support needs of an ageing population.” Richard Humphries, Health Foundation “Drawing on COVID-19 experiences of mutual aid and other initiatives, Anne Gray skilfully presents solutions to the current UK care ‘crisis’. Her wide-ranging analyses, combined with multiple examples, go beyond care-related policies to community development, neighbourhood action and prevention of ill-health investments, as well as the economic and value-led rationales for taking action.” Jill Manthorpe CBE, The Policy Institute at King's College London (emerita)