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| Curtains for care homes? | | Author(s) | Katie Leason |
| Journal title | Community Care, issue 1567, 7 April 2005 |
| Pages | pp 32-33 |
| Source | http://www.communitycare.co.uk |
| Keywords | Very sheltered housing ; Care homes ; Social policy. |
| Annotation | The government is enamoured with the idea of extra-care housing, sometimes, its seems, to the exclusion of all other options. Even so, care homes still have an important role to play, despite disputes over care standards and fee levels. The author notes that community care minister, Stephen Ladyman's anti-residential care stance is evident in the recent Green Paper, "Independence, well-being and choice" (Cm 6499). Gillian Crosby, Director of the Centre for Policy on Ageing (CPA), while welcoming the development of extra-care housing, believes that good residential care should continue to be available for those who need it. The author suggests that extra-care housing (currently only 20,000 older people) needs to expand quickly if it to become the dominant model, as compared to care homes with about half a million older people. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-050504206 A |
| Classmark | KLA:58D: KW: TM2 * |
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