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At home in a boarding house — caring for elderly, disabled or mentally disordered residents in boarding houses and similar settings: report of an independent working group
Author(s)	David Hobman
Corporate Author	National Institute of Social Work - NISW
Publisher	National Institute for Social Work, London, 1981
Pages	70 pp
Keywords	Hotels [elderly] ; Care homes ; Reports ; Standards of provision.
Annotation	The report, begun under the former Personal Social Services Council (PSSC) and completed by the Independent Working Group under the National Institute for Social Work, was supported and financed by the Department of Health and Social Security (DHSS). The Working Group discovered that boarding houses were providing accommodation for many thousands of people who might otherwise have fallen within public local authority care systems. Social workers were regularly placing discharged patients from hospitals or institutions for the mentally handicapped into boarding houses. Boarding houses were also providing homes for many quite frail older people. At best, the standard of accommodation and care was satisfactory. The report provides guidelines on good practice and standards of care, and considers in detail identifying personal needs, and training and support for providing care. (RH).
Accession Number	CPA-930430066 B
Classmark	KTH: KW: 6K: 583
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