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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Original Title Page -- Original Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter One: The Nature of Innovation -- Chapter Two: Promoting Innovation - A District Medical Officer's View -- Chapter Three: How Local Government Funds Innovations in Social Services -- Chapter Four: Early Intervention in a General Practice -- Chapter Five: Extended Role of the Home Help Service -- Chapter Six: High-Rise Sheltered Housing -- Chapter Seven: Domiciliary Physiotherapy for the Elderly in South Birmingham -- Chapter Eight: The Volunteer Stroke Scheme -- Chapter Nine: A Continence Advisory Service -- Chapter Ten: Making a Geriatric Department Effective -- Chapter Eleven: Hollymoor Psychogeriatric Service -- Chapter Twelve: A Day Centre for the Elderly Mentally Infirm -- Chapter Thirteen: Residential Home for the Elderly Mentally Infirm -- Chapter Fourteen: Domiciliary Care of the Terminally Ill -- Chapter Fifteen: Education in Care of the Elderly -- Chapter Sixteen: The Societal Context of Innovation in Care of the Elderly -- List of Contributors -- Index.

No society or government can offer total care for all elderly people in the population - no matter how developed or wealthy the country is. The financial and manpower implications of doing so would be enormous.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Original Title Page -- Original Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Warning -- Foreword -- 1 Characteristics of the Elderly Mentally Infirm -- 2 An Outline of Mental Illness in the Elderly -- 3 The Symptoms of Brain Failure -- 4 Other Mental Illness -- 5 Normal and Abnormal Personality -- 6 The National Health Service and the Elderly Mentally Infirm -- 7 Demographic and Social Aspects of Old Age -- 8 Social Services for the Elderly -- 9 Communicating with Elderly People -- 10 Social Work Intervention -- 11 Needs of Relatives -- 12 A Better Future? -- Appendix 1: Legislation -- Appendix 2: Brief Legal Notes -- Appendix 3: Financial Concessions -- Appendix 4: Guidelines for Social Workers -- (a) Symptoms of Mild and Severe Intrinsic Brain Failure and of Extrinsic Brain Failure -- (b) Assessment of Elderly Client at Risk in the Community -- (c) Guidelines for Communicating with Elderly People -- (d) Problems Faced by Carers and Possible Solutions -- (e) Helping to Keep Old People in the Community -- Appendix 5: Key Addresses -- Appendix 6: Voluntary Social Services -- Appendix 7: Mrs Sarah Merton, Aged 87, A Client at Risk -- Appendix 8: Brief Case Studies for Discussion -- Appendix 9: Additional Tables -- Glossary -- References -- Index.