Publisher's Synopsis
This is the first of two books from the comparative study of community and social services for elderly people undertaken by the Personal Social Services Research Unit at the University of Kent at Canterbury. The work is the product of a welfare study; that is, it looks at the needs-related circumstances of consumers, resources allocated, and outcomes of evaluative importance in their own right. In particular, it analyses i) how the allocation of resources and their effects on outcomes vary between consumers in various circumstances and ii) how the allocations differed between the twelve small areas compared. The work combines statistical description and modelling with the analysis of the policy process based on interviews and documentary evidence. It also describes the important statistical relations of the production of welfare, how the production processes work, and why they take that form.
