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KMID : 0379220150350010079
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Journal of Korea Gerontological Society
2015 Volume.35 No. 1 p.79 ~ p.98
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Process of Development and Its Issues of Community Care Policy for Older People in the UK: Focused on a Mixed Economy of Care
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Kong Seon-Hee
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Abstract
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This article examines the origin and development of community care policy for older people in the UK and to draw out some of the policy implications of community care in Korea. During ’consensus politics’ between the Conservative and the Labour, community care was major objectives of social policy and the public sector played main role in health and social care provision. Since the mid-1970s, the welfare system was restructured and the Conservatives pushed extensive neoliberal reforms. Consequently, during ’conflict politics’ of Thatcherism, despite the fact that community care was further emphasized for the purpose of economic benefits, it happened a massive growth of private sector residential and nursing homes in the 1980s and early 1990s. This irony was partly caused by Thatherite politics to curtail the role of local authorities and to keep down the influence of the Labour into them. The ’new’ market-led community care allowed under the 1990 Act resulted in strengthening care gap and inequality of care resources. It suggests that the role of the public sector should be expanded to meet the social care needs of frail elders and the fostering of social capital at the local level will be needed to develop community care in Korea.
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KEYWORD
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community care policy , UK , elder care , welfare pluralism , mixed economy of care , neoliberalism
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