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Care of Older People in the Community. In this essay I want to carefully examine a broad range of issues concerning elderly people in contemporary British society today. In particular I will want to focus on community care policy and the issue of long-term care. I will want to pay attention to informal care and be able to assess how problematic that this form of care can be in contemporary society. I will also suggest changes that could be made in social policy that could help advantage retired and elderly people in this the twenty-first century. Community care policies can be traced back to the 1950's in British society and had grown as a result of the closure of large-scale institutions that had housed people with mental health problems and the mentally handicapped. This led to the emergence of smaller type homes and hostels for people who could not return to their...

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