Contents Volume 2, Number 1, January 1994, pp. 1-68 The best laid plans... gang aft agley? Assessing population needs in Scotland Kirsten Stalker Primary health care provision for people with learning difficulties Jackie Rodgers De-institutionalization and ageing: some results from monitoring the effects in an area-based system of long-term care for elderly people with disabilities Marten Lagergren Contradictions of support and self-help: views from providers of community health and social services to families with young children Jeanette Edwards and Jennie Popay The process of managing the dietary regimen in elderly people with diabetes Judith Albright Short reports Book reviews Volume 2, Number 2, March 1994, pp. 69-132 69 A mother’s choice: the reasons women choose hospital stay over early discharge Alan Shiell, Sue Cameron, Patricia Kenny and Madeleine King Primary health care team effectiveness: developing a constituency approach Brenda C. Poulton and Michael West The cost of poor adjustment to chronic iliness: lessons from three studies Gina Browne, Jacqueline Roberts, Robin Weir, Amiram Gafni, Susan Watt and Carolyn Byrne Bridging the gap between professionals and the community in mental health services: findings and policy implications of two demonstration projects Jéré6me Guay Sharing care between hospital and the community: a critical review of developments in the UK Lis Bennet, Carl May and David J. Woolfson 113 Short reports 127 Book reviews Volume 2, Number 3, May 1994, pp. 133-202 133 Policy and practice: fundamental contradictions in the conceptualization of community care for elderly people Kerry Caldock The employment consequences of caring for older people Judith Philips What price theory if you cannot afford the bus fare: normalization and leisure services for people with learning difficulties Hilary Brown Parental adequacy, parenting failure and parents with learning difficulties Tim Booth and Wendy Booth Nurse practitioners, learning from the USA experience Sue Jordan Short reports Book reviews Volume 2, Number 4, July 1994, pp. 203-268 203 Independent hospice care in the community: two case studies David Clark and Brenda Neale 213 Needs and needs assessment: their components and definitions with reference to dementia George McWalter, Hugh Toner, Alison Corser, Jenny Eastwood, Mary Marshall and Tony Turvey Caring for elderly people with persistent pain in the community: a qualitative perspective on the attitudes of patients and nurses Janet M. Walker Funding and managing the adaptation of owner occupied homes for people with physical disabilities Sheila Mackintosh and Philip Leather Legacies of caring: the experience and circumstances of ex- carers Ejithne McLaughlin and Jane Ritchie Short reports Book reviews Volume 2, Number 5, September 1994, pp. 269-328 269 Working together lessons for collaboration between health and social services Ray Higgins, Christine Oldman and David J. Hunter Job satisfaction among practice nurses in a health district David Armstrong, Abdollah Tavabie and Sandra Johnston Assembling their own care care packages: payments for care by men and women in advanced old age Gail Wilson Primary health care and the Vietnamese community: a survey in Greenwich Tom Lam and Judith Green Service users’ perceptions of a psychiatric day hospital Patricia Ann Firby and Joanna M. Boothroyd Short reports Book reviews Volume 2, Number 6, November 1994, pp. 329-000 329 Women’s health: women’s voices Nickie Charles and Vivienne Walters 339 The price of taking students: an exploratory cost-benefit analysis in social work agencies Martin Davies and Jo Connolly 347 Achieving a strategy for user involvement in community care Marian Barnes and Gerald Wistow 357 Paid and unpaid carers: their role in and satisfaction with primary health care for people with learning disabilities Joan Langan, Michael Whitfield and Oliver Russell Short reports Book reviews Author Index Keyword Index