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Care homes
— Caring and homely? But how? | | Author(s) | John Burton |
| Journal title | Journal of Care Services Management, vol 2, no 3, April-June 2008 |
| Publisher | London, April-June 2008 |
| Pages | pp 227-238 |
| Source | http://www.henrystewart.com |
| Keywords | Care homes ; Management [care] ; Standards of provision. |
| Annotation | The purpose of any "care home" is to provide care in a homely environment. In a previous article in the Journal of Care Services Management (vol 1, no 3), the author identified and analysed the shortcomings of care homes (that many of them are neither caring nor homely), and set out an initial framework and a systems diagram by which the organisation of the home could be understood in order to build the foundations for change. The purpose of the present paper is to demonstrate how, with the use of simple psychoanalytic and systems theory, and a single-minded focus on the primary task, homes (and the organisations that run them) can be designed, reformed, maintained and repaired so that they can be truly caring and homely. As with the previous article, the author recognises that some care homes do succeed in being truly caring and homely - genuinely therapeutic - places. While this paper will be helpful to those good homes, the fundamental criticisms and proposals are not aimed at them. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-080609006 A |
| Classmark | KW: QA: 583 |
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