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| Unhappy anniversary? | | Author(s) | Joe Hanley, David Marsland |
| Journal title | Journal of Adult Protection, vol 16, no 2, 2014 |
| Publisher | Emerald, 2014 |
| Pages | pp 104-112 |
| Source | www.emeraldinsight.com/jap.htm |
| Keywords | Elder abuse ; Cognitive impairment ; Care homes ; Personal relationships ; Care home staff. |
| Annotation | The importance and nature of relationships of trust in care settings is explored. This paper attempts to answer the question, what is it about these kinds of relationships that is associated with harm and abuse? The paper takes a discursive approach, based implicitly on an ecological framework of analysis. The analysis draws on the broad array of enquiries, studies, reports and serious case reviews (SCRs) that are available on specific adult safeguarding issues. The conclusion is that the relationships between staff and service users in residential care settings are characterised by non-mutual dependency, isolation and unequal decision-making powers. Therefore, such relationships deserve special focus and attention, in order to safeguard and protect the people concerned. The paper implies that practitioners and policy makers should find ways to ensure that they listen more closely to people living in residential settings. Practitioners should ask more about the quality of relationships that people enjoy with the staff that support them. The paper suggests that in order to safeguard people more effectively, practitioners and policy makers should reconsider the central focus of their energies and revisit issues such as isolation, in the lives of disabled and older people living in residential care. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-150626210 A |
| Classmark | QNT: E4: KW: DS: QRM |
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