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Adult care
— [nursing home misplacements and residential care appropriate placements] | | Author(s) | Sheila Peace |
| Journal title | Research Matters: a digest of research in social services, issue 12, October 2001- April 2002 |
| Pages | pp 6-8 |
| Keywords | Care homes ; Consumer choice ; Admission [nursing homes] ; Misplacement ; Evaluation ; Research Reviews. |
| Annotation | Adult care encompasses much more than just residential homes, and proper study has to be made of tailoring types of care to individual need. In this review, the author considers two pieces of research with contrasting purposes and methods. In the first, Christina Victor and colleagues examined the changing nature of the nursing and residential home population and those characteristics which have identified people as 'misplaced'. This research is published as "The inappropriate placement of older people in nursing homes in England and Wales: a national audit" (Quality in Ageing: policy, practice and research, vol 2, issue 1, April 2001). The second piece of research is Leonie Kellaher's "A choice well made: 'mutuality' as a governing principle in residential care" (Centre for Policy on Ageing - CPA, 2000). Commissioned by Methodist Homes, and presenting the views of older people living in Methodist Homes during 1999, this research found a strong sense of people being well placed. The concept of mutuality - defined here as a mix of friendliness, respect and support - is identified as underpinning all aspects of care. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-040812001 A |
| Classmark | KW: WYC: LHB:QKH: QKM: 4C: 3A:6KC |
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