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Edgar, Don – Family Matters, 1992
This article presents an argument for reforming Australian public policy in favor of social care, rather than family, residential, or community care, for the elderly, sick, and disabled. After noting policy assumptions that families are the focus of caring and women are the natural caregivers, the paper describes changes in Australian family…
Descriptors: Adult Day Care, Caregivers, Child Caregivers, Community Programs
Neilson Associates Pty. Ltd., Melbourne (Australia). – 1988
This report recommends a 10-year plan for changes in services to people with intellectual disabilities in Victoria, Australia. Intended key outcomes of the plan include: increases in the numbers of clients receiving direct residential support in community-based accommodations; reductions in numbers of adult clients resident in large scale…
Descriptors: Adoption, Adult Day Care, Community Programs, Community Resources