Transforming Community Care: A Distorted Vision? Author:Helen Gorman & Karen Postle complexity of racialization processes and

complexity of racialization processes and identity politics are addressed

greater user involvement in service provision and delivery is a key priority for many western governments

Yet this growth of social work internationally is taking place at a time where there is a widespread acceptance that social work in many Western countries is in crisis

the USA and Australia

Transforming Community Care: A Distorted Vision? Author:Helen Gorman & Karen Postle complexity of racialization processes andThe engine of community care is the professional practice of care management. However, its implementation in the managerialist 1990s frustrated the flexible implementation of community care. Gorman and Postle use their detailed research to show powerfully how a generation of social workers have been disillusioned by care management and they use their own practice experience with older people to demonstrate the continuing possibilities for social work