# Share the Care’

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- Authors: [Kirsten Stalker](https://www.bookquiver.com/kirsten-stalker)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 1994-01-01

## Description

The provision of respite care within families is a relatively new development and the ad hoc nature of individual schemes has resulted in a great variation in their character; relatively little research has been carried out into the policy and practice of this important development in community care. 'Share the Care' examines: the different ways in which respite care schemes operate, focusing in particular on the Share-the-Care service in Lothian; the experience of parents of children with learning difficulties of using the scheme; respite carers: who joins the scheme and why, their perceptions of its rewards and dissatisfactions, and their experience of social work support; the less positive effects of separation upon the children themselves; families facing an extended wait for respite; families who withdraw from the scheme.

## Editions

### Share the Care’

- Publisher: jessica_kingsley_publishers
- ISBN: 978-18-5302-038-4
- Pages: 1
- Published: 1994-01-01
- Language: en_GB