Description:
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.
Review Quotes: "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, The Policy Institute at King's College London (emerita)