ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the provision and use of elderly care services through consideration of the policy framework within which care is offered to elderly people from minority ethnic groups. In 1992 Strathclyde Regional Council produced its first Community Care Plan in which it was asserted that community involvement was already an essential dimension of service delivery. In November 1994 a Consultation Draft of the next Joint Community Care Plan was produced and circulated. The need for elderly day care services in Govanhill was so great that within four years the small lunch club had become a thriving day care centre with 500 members. The new project would provide day care services including a lunch club, group activities, arts and crafts, welfare rights advice, health promotion and advice, housing advice, a library, films and a separate prayer facility. Residential care was considered the least important service for elderly people.
