ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book describes community-oriented practice is derived partly from juxtaposing formal and informal care and analysing the interaction between them at a conceptual level. It reviews a number of mechanisms for linking informal and formal care. The book discusses interrelationships at the local level between the economy, patterns of land use, physical infrastructure and industry, as well as the interrelatedness of global, national, regional and local market forces. It examines the dialectic interaction of other counterpoised frameworks informs the technological issues. The book presents a number of other service models designed to manage interaction between central and peripheral organisations. It provides to manage the interaction between practitioners and local community structures and processes. The book explores the purpose of social care was defined in terms of human rights and the distribution of power and resources.
