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Uncovering history — private sector care homes for older people in England
Author(s)	Julia Johnson, Sheena Rolph, Randall Smith
Journal title	Journal of Social Policy, vol 39, part 2, April 2010
Pages	pp 235-254
Source	http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJourna... doi:10.1017/S004727940999064X
Keywords	Private care homes ; Histories ; England.
Annotation	In conducting his research for The Last Refuge (1962), Peter Townsend visited 173 public, voluntary and private residential care homes for older people in England and Wales. Drawing on his data, now archived at the University of Essex, the authors traced the subsequent history of these homes and revisited a sample of homes that were still functioning as care homes in 2006. In this article, the focus is on the 42 private homes Professor Townsend visited, some of which remain open and were revisited by us in 2005-06. The pre-1980 history of private sector residential care provision for older people is an elusive and poorly charted topic. Drawing on the two data sets for then and now, this article contributes new insights into this area of UK policy and practice. (KJ/RH).
Accession Number	CPA-100324204 A
Classmark	KWH: 6A: 82
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