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| Residential life today, government rhetoric and individual rights, a match for reality? | | Author(s) | Keith Sumner |
| Journal title | Practice, vol 14, no 2, 2002 |
| Pages | pp 19-30 |
| Keywords | Care homes ; Living patterns ; Housing [elderly] ; Consumer choice ; Social policy. |
| Annotation | The position of older people in influencing and negotiating their own living and care arrangements is explored, with a particular focus on residential care. The author outlines the factors that have lead to the current position with regard to key social policies impacting on the lives of older people, both in the broad sphere of service user and community participation, and in the area of residential care itself. He examines recent research into the experiences of life in residential care, and the extent to which older people's rights through various items of legislation, government guidance and other influential 'good practice' publications have been realised. This is considered at both strategic and individual levels. A discussion of some of the tensions manifest in this situation suggest possible areas upon which future attention should be focused. (KJ/RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-020710201 A |
| Classmark | KW: K7: KE: WYC: TM2 |
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