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Homely residential care — a contradiction in terms?
Author(s)	Sheila Peace, Caroline Holland
Journal title	Journal of Social Policy, vol 30, no 3, July 2001
Pages	pp 393-410
Keywords	Care homes ; Small ; Residents [care homes] ; Pilot ; Social surveys ; Bedfordshire ; Buckinghamshire ; Hertfordshire.
Annotation	Accommodation and care for older people is commonly thought of in relation to residential care homes: the collective settings with communal lounges and dining rooms, where older people may live what seems to be a fine balance between individual and group routines. Yet, while there have been changes to the living arrangements of people in relatively large collective groups, the ideal put forward as a basis for care settings has remained that of 'home', with the family model still central. The authors use a pilot study of registered small homes in Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire and Hertfordshire, with less than four residential places, and often run by the proprietor and her family, to consider whether residential homes may replicate a homely environment, or whether the model has run its course. (KJ/RH).
Accession Number	CPA-010810208 A
Classmark	KW: 54: KX: 4UC: 3F: 8B: 8BU: 8HT
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