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When home is best
— [older people's rights and their preferences about where to live] | | Author(s) | Jacqueline Wiles |
| Journal title | Nursing Times, vol 96, no 1, 6 January 2000 |
| Pages | pp 48-50 |
| Keywords | Rights [elderly] ; Independence ; Living patterns ; Admission [nursing homes]. |
| Annotation | Not all patients are willing or able to adapt to life in a nursing home, and consequently fail to thrive. Nurses need to consider some basic human rights when acting as advocates for such people. The author cites evidence from a Centre for Policy on Ageing (CPA) publication, "Living dangerously: risk-taking, safety and older people", by Deirdre Wynne-Harley (1991), to support an example from her own experience working in a nursing home. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-000113202 A |
| Classmark | IKR: C3: K7: LHB:QKH * |
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