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  • Social Support

  • Mildred Blaxter
  • Journal:
    Ageing & Society / Volume 6 / Issue 3 / September 1986
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    14 November 2008, pp. 355-358
    Print publication:
    September 1986
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  • Health ‘On the Welfare’ – A Case Study

  • Mildred Blaxter
  • Journal:
    Journal of Social Policy / Volume 3 / Issue 1 / January 1974
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    20 January 2009, pp. 39-51
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    January 1974

  • A welfare benefit concerns a ‘need’ which a society has decided ‘ought’ to be met. What match is there between the system of welfare which has been laid down by legislation, and the way in which the members of society who are the potential recipients conceive of it? If, as Titmuss has said, definitions of needs are the interdependent manifestations ‘first, of society's wish to survive as an organic whole and, secondly, of the expressed wish of all the people to assist the survival of some people,’ how are these two objectives related, and how do the concepts of need held by ‘all the people’ match those held by the ‘some’? How in practice is the ‘need’ defined, and how do individuals define their own needs?