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3 See, for example, Glastonbury, B., Paying and Piper and Calling the Tune. B.A.S.W., London, 1979.
4 Abrams, P., Neighbourhood Care and Social Policy: A Research Perspective, The Volunteer Centre, London, 1979; Abrams, P., Social change, social networks, and neighbourhood care, Social Work Service, 22 (1980), 12–23; Abrams, P. and Bulmer, M., Policies to promote informal social care: some reflections on voluntary action, neighbourhood involvement, and neighbourhood care, Ageing and Society, 5 (1985), 1–18.
5 Leat, D., Limited Liability? A Report on Some Good Neighbour Schemes, The Volunteer Centre, London, 1979; Leat, D., Getting to Know the Neighbours, Policy Studies Institute, London, 1983.
6 Rosow, I., Old people: their friends and neighbours, American Behavioural Scientist, 14 (1970), 59–69; Jerome, D., The significance of friendship for women in later life, Ageing and Society, 1 (1981), 175–197; Matthews, S. H., Definitions of friendship and their consequences in old age, Ageing and Society, 3 (1983), 141–55; Wenger, C., The Supportive Network: Coping with Old Age, Allen & Unwin, London, 1984.
7 Finch, J. and Groves, D., Community care and the family, Journal of Social Policy, 9 (1980), 487–514; Equal Opportunities Commission, Caring for the Elderly and Handicapped, Equal Opportunities Commission, Manchester, 1982; Missel, M. and Bonnerjea, L., Family Care of the Handicapped Elderly: Who Pays?, Policy Studies Institute, London, 1982; Walker, A. (ed), Community Care: the Family, the State and Social Policy, Martin Robertson/Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1982; Finch, J. and Groves, D. (eds), A Labour of Love: Women, Work and Caring, Routledge and Kegan Paul, London, 1983.
8 Allan, G. A., Sociology of Friendship and Kinship. Allen & Unwin, London, 1979.
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10 Naegale, K., Friendship and acquaintances: An exploration of some social distinctions, Harvard Educational Review, 28 (1958), 232–252.
11 Lazarsfeld, P. and Merton, R., ‘Friendship as a social process’, in Berger, M., Abel, T. and Page, C. H. (eds). Freedom and Control in Modern Society. Van Nostrand, Princeton, 1954.
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13 Parker, R., ‘Tending and social policy’, in Goldberg, E. M. and Hatch, S. (eds). A New Look at the Personal Social Services. Policy Studies Institute, London, 1981.
14 Ungerson, C., ‘Women and caring: skills, tasks and taboos’, in Gamarnikow, E., Morgan, D., Purvis, J. and Taylorson, D. (eds). The Public and the Private, Heinemann, London, 1983.
16 Briggs, A. and Oliver, J. (eds), Caring: Experiences of Looking After Disabled Relatives, Routledge and Kegan Paul, London, 1985.
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18 Tomlinson, A., Leisure and Social Control, Brighton Polytechnic, Eastbourne, 1981; Deem, R., Women, leisure and inequality, Leisure Studies, 1 (1982), 29–46.
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20 A number of the carers in Briggs, A. and Oliver, J., op cit., testify to this by highlighting the help they received through becoming members of the Association of Carers.
21 Schneider, D., American Kinship: A Cultural Account, Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, N.J., 1968.
22 Matthews, S. H., op.cit.
