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'Care homes will have a long but more varied future'
— Rethinking residential care, sheltered housing and nursing home care : new models for improved services, Capita, 11 May 2000, Royal Society of Arts, London: conference report | | Corporate Author | Centre for Policy on Ageing - CPA |
| Journal title | Care Plan, vol 6, no 4, June 2000 |
| Pages | pp 8-9 |
| Keywords | Care homes ; Sheltered housing ; Nursing homes ; Conference proceedings. |
| Annotation | Fundamental rethinking about different forms of long-term care for older people has led to the opinion that the number of residential and nursing homes is likely to dwindle. Older people are more likely to prefer the dignity and security of sheltered housing with social care or intensive domiciliary support. This was the view of Malcolm Johnson of the International Institute of Health and Ageing, a speaker at the conference, "Rethinking residential care, sheltered housing and nursing home care". Gillian Dalley, Director of the Centre for Policy on Ageing (CPA), queried the "intermediate care" proposals from Alan Milburn (Secretary of State for Health): new measures should not be implemented, only to suit the needs of the acute health care sector. Other speakers discussed national standards for domiciliary care, commissioning services, prevention and rehabilitation, and the role of Better Government for Older People (BGOP) in the consultation process. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-000719212 A |
| Classmark | KW: KLA: LHB: 6M |
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