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Author Peace, Sheila M.

Title Re-evaluating residential care / Sheila Peace, Leonie Kellaher and Dianne Willcocks
Published Buckingham ; Philadelphia : Open University Press, 1997

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Description xiv, 140 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Series Rethinking ageing series
Rethinking ageing series.
Contents Machine derived contents note: Series editor's preface
Summary If most older people want to remain in their own homes, then why does residential care persist? The authors of this timely book set out to answer this pressing question and offer an explanation as to what makes older people give up their homes. Residential care homes provide accommodation for over 300,000 older people in the UK, the majority of whom are in their mid-eighties. More than a quarter of the population over eighty-five live in institutional settings, most of them in residential care homes. This book offers readers a comprehensive review of the history of residential care, current provision, current practice and an analysis of its future role. Re-evaluating Residential Care will be invaluable to a wide range of practitioners involved in residential care, as well as students of nursing, social work, gerontology and social policy
Notes Bibliography: p124-135. _ Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [124]-135) and index
Subject Nursing homes -- Evaluation.
Old age homes -- Evaluation.
Older people -- Institutional care -- Evaluation.
Homes for the Aged.
Nursing Homes.
Author Kellaher, Leonie A.
Willcocks, Dianne M.
LC no. 96046517
ISBN 0335193927 (paperback)
0335193935
Other Titles Reevaluating residential care