Unshared care : parents and their disabled children

Title
  1. Unshared care : parents and their disabled children / Caroline Glendinning.
Published by
  1. London ; Boston : Routledge & K. Paul, 1983.
Author
  1. Glendinning, Caroline, 1950-

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Description
  1. ix, 256, 15 pages; 22 cm.
Summary
  1. The vast majority of the 100,000 or so children with serious mental or physical disabilities in Britain today live at home with their families. A series of in-depth interviews carried out with a number of parents enabled the author to describe the extensive physical, practical and emotional demands made on those looking after their disabled child at home. In their own words, parents report how and when they learnt about their child's disability; the sheer physical work and mental effort of daily care which more often than not fall unremittingly on the child's mother; the feelings of isolation and the lack of information which are often relieved only by talking with parents of other disabled children. Unshared Care examines the community services available, revealing that, from the parents' point of view, the rhetoric of public concern is only barely matched by the practical support available. It shows that services are, all too often, insufficiently specialized and lacking in coherence.
Series statement
  1. International library of social policy
Uniform title
  1. International library of social policy.
Subject
  1. Developmentally disabled children > Family relationships > Great Britain
  2. Developmentally disabled children > Services for > Great Britain
  3. Developmentally disabled children > Care > Great Britain
  4. Child health services
  5. Social service
  6. Child Health Services
  7. Developmental Disabilities
  8. Family
  9. Social Work
  10. Social service
  11. Child health services
  12. Developmentally disabled children > Care
  13. Developmentally disabled children > Family relationships
  14. Developmentally disabled children > Services for
  15. Kind
  16. Behinderung
  17. Eltern
  18. Geestelijk gehandicapte kinderen
  19. Children with disabilities > Family relationships > Great Britain
  20. Children with disabilities > Care > Great Britain
  21. Children with disabilities > Services for > Great Britain
  22. Parents of children with disabilities > Great Britain
  23. United Kingdom
  24. Great Britain
  25. Großbritannien
Owning institution
  1. Princeton University Library
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references and index.