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Empowerment in Community Care

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  1. Raymond Jack

    1. Anglia Polytechnic University, Cambridge, UK

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Table of contents (18 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vi
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Raymond Jack
      Pages 1-8

  3. Empowerment — Meanings and Motives

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 9-9
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    2. Empowerment in community care

      • Raymond Jack
      Pages 11-42

    3. Defining participative practice in health and welfare

      • David Shemmings, Yvonne Shemmings
      Pages 43-58

  4. Empowerment — Practical Experiences in Self-help and Mutual Aid

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 75-75
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    3. Self-help organizations in Germany: possibilities and constraints

      • Andrea Koch, Monika Reichert
      Pages 96-107

    6. Not too ‘grey’ power

      • Jack Thain
      Pages 145-156

    7. Pensioners’ forums — a voice for older people

      • Tony Carter, Caroline Nash
      Pages 157-169

    8. Gaining confidence — speaking out

      • Zelda Curtis
      Pages 170-183

  5. Empowerment — Professional Practice: Challenges and Opportunities

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 241-241
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    2. Effective support for self-help: some lessons from the experience of the Self-Help Alliance

      • Eric Miller, Fiddy Abraham, Dione Hills, Elizabeth Sommerlad, Elliot Stern, Barbara Webb
      Pages 243-257
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Editors and Affiliations

  • Anglia Polytechnic University, Cambridge, UK

    Raymond Jack

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Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Empowerment in Community Care

  • Editors: Raymond Jack

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-4507-5

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1995

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-0-412-59880-7Published: 01 January 1995

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4899-4507-5Published: 11 November 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VI, 314

  • Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Sociology, general

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