Welcome to the companion website for

Foundations of Health and Social Care

Edited by Robert Adams

A resource site for lecturers and students

About this site

This site provides learning support and additional resources for all readers of this book, including students and lecturers. Over and above the material it offers students, there is additional material for lecturers in the form of extension activities and topics for a range of assignments, including essays.

The site is divided between material for lecturers and for students. Some of the material is open access for lecturers and students, whilst some is restricted access, for lecturers only.

About this book

Foundations of Health and Social Care is an essential new text that covers everything required to teach health and social care at the Foundation Degree level.

Especially written with FD students in mind, the book offers the right balance of theory, practice skills and learning support for the course and student group. The book has been developed in consultation with academics from both the health and social care fields and offers a comprehensive and rigorous introduction written and presented in a very accessible and engaging style.

Foundations of Health and Social Care is an essential tool in your students’ studies and quest for professional development, and it is also suitable for use across related health degree courses.

Foundations of Health and Social Care offers grounding in the basic material students and practitioners are likely to require when working in health and social care. The book provides both knowledge and skill-based material. Its primary aim is to provide material for students on Foundation Degree courses in aspects of health and social care. These courses have a range of titles, from Foundation Degree in Health and Social Care to Health and Social Care Management.

The book is structured so as to:

facilitate learning and study (Part 1)
set health and social care practice in various contexts, including policy, ethics, sociology and the physical and psychological basis for health and social care (Part II)
provide a knowledge base for health and social care (Part III)
extend practice skills through material about approaches and many practice studies illustrating how knowledge and skills are applied (Parts IV – VIII)
provide the jumping off point for continuing work, learning and personal and professional development (Part IX).

The structure of the book is progressive. That is, the material increases in complexity, presents more challenges and leaves more gaps for the reader to fill, as the book proceeds. One noteworthy feature in this respect is that the Resource Files in Part I contain basic learning and study material and guidance. This is intended to form the foundation for the student to prepare basic assignments. A further collection of Resource Files is located in Part VI. These provide further guidance on more challenging assignments: how to write essays, carry out reviews, writing critically, making presentations.