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Adult care
— [residential care and institutional elder abuse] | | Author(s) | Sheila Peace |
| Journal title | Research Matters: a digest of research in social services, issue 15, April - October 2003 |
| Pages | pp 5-12 |
| Source | http://www.community-care.co.uk Subscriptions: (ref. 081) http://www.reedbusiness.com/products/research_matt... |
| Keywords | Care homes ; Nursing homes ; Elder abuse ; Social surveys. |
| Annotation | Two articles published during 2002 review policies and practice concerning older people's long-term care. In "Long-term care: from public responsibility to private good" (Social Policy Review), Stuart Player and Allyson Pollock use Laing and Buisson data to show the dramatic fall in the number of residential care and nursing home places in the public sector between 1992 and 2000. Julia Johnson, in "Taking care of later life: a matter of justice?" (British Journal of Social Work) argues that marketisation and commodification of care provision is incompatible with the notion of social justice, as has been the case with the withdrawal of preserved rights to social security payments. A third piece of research is reviewed that examines issues regarding institutional elder abuse. Susan Greaves' qualitative study with care home staff, "Behind closed doors", explored abuse in residential, sheltered and private accommodation in North East Essex and the need for a local telephone help-line. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-040812210 A |
| Classmark | KW: LHB: QNT: 3F |
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