With a policy shift towards personalisation of adult social care in England, much attention
has focused on individualised support for older people with care needs. This article reports …

2.1 Background The World Health Organisation estimates that 15% of the world's population
live with a disability and that this number will continue to grow into the future, but with the …

Background: Exercising choice and control over decisions is central to quality of life. The
Mental Capacity Act 2005 (England and Wales) provides a legal framework to safeguard the …

The article evaluates marketization and its effects on elderly-care policies in Finland, where
the welfare state has been the most important mechanism in mitigating failures caused by …

The first part of the paper argues that the care relationship is crucial to securing care quality,
which has implications for the way in which quality is achieved and measured. However, for …

Alternatives to criminalization for the simple possession of illicit drugs are increasingly of
interest to policy makers. But there is no existing theoretically based, empirically tested …

The Australian National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) will allocate funding packages
to people with disability who are assessed as needing paid support. The NDIS is an …

The objective of this article is to analyse whether the increased reliance on marketisation in
the provision of social care challenges the universality of eldercare in Sweden, Denmark …

Background Efforts to uphold and promote the human rights of people with intellectual
disabilities (ID) are being affected by the increasing emphasis on 'choice'in the delivery of …

Cash-for-care schemes offering cash payments in place of conventional social services are
becoming commonplace in developed welfare states; however, there is little evidence about …