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Committed to the asylum? The long term care of older people
— with a response by Roger Clough | | Author(s) | Malcolm Johnson, Roger Clough |
| Corporate Author | Leveson Centre for the Study of Ageing, Spirituality and Social Policy |
| Publisher | The Leveson Centre, Solihull, 2002 |
| Pages | 21 pp (Leveson paper number three) |
| Source | The Leveson Centre for the Study of Ageing, Spirituality and Social Policy, Foundation of Lady Katherine Leveson, Temple Balsall, Knowle, Solihull B93 0AN. |
| Keywords | Care homes ; Nursing homes ; Long term ; Christianity ; Social policy ; Lecture papers. |
| Annotation | Malcolm Johnson delivered the second Leveson Lecture on 24 April 2002 at the Leveson Centre. In the lecture, he responds to the attack on institutional care of frail and vulnerable older people and the previous view that we can, and should, get rid of care homes. He argues that the case for abandoning institutional care is poorly thought out and against the evidence. He suggests that we need to rediscover care homes as places of asylum for older people worn down by the "heroic maintenance of a private dwelling into which invading helpers are present for perhaps four or five hours out of 24 hours of each day". He points to the origins of our care system in the Church's provision of sanctuary and spiritual support. He concludes that we "reconstruct our thinking about institutions, and put them back in the valued spectrum of human living arrangements". (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-030120202 B |
| Classmark | KW: LHB: 4Q: TS: TM2: 6MA |
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