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Older people and permanent care — whose decision?
Author(s)	Sandra Dwyer
Journal title	British Journal of Social Work, vol 35, no 7, October 2005
Pages	pp 1081-1092
Source	http://bjsw.oupjournals.org
Keywords	Admission [care homes] ; Admission [nursing homes] ; Rights [elderly].
Annotation	The 1989 White Paper, "Caring for people: community care in the next decade and beyond" (Cm 849) had as the first of six objectives the provision of services to enable people to live at home whenever "feasible and sensible". This article explores who decides what is feasible and sensible, paying particular attention to power issues. It looks at decision-making when older people enter permanent care. Dementia and capacity are a specific focus. The complexities of the work for practitioners, together with their sometimes difficult working environments, engender a climate which can be counterproductive to protecting the self-determination of older people. (RH).
Accession Number	CPA-051214207 A
Classmark	KW:QKH: LHB:QKH: IKR
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