This unit is from our archive and it is an adapted extract from Understanding Health and Social Care (K100) which is no longer in presentation. if you wish to study formally at The Open University, you may wish to explore the courses we offer in this curriculum area.
In this unit we explore questions of access to community services. To make what might be quite a dry task more challenging we use a fictionalised case study of two people for whom access to community services is particularly problematic. Jim and Marianne are both long-term heroin addicts. Additional problems associated with their addiction are homelessness and physical illness. Their situation raises both practical questions, about how services can be accessed, and moral questions, about entitlement to resources when their problems can be regarded as at least in part self-inflicted.
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