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| Deaths of people alone | | Corporate Author | Centre for Policy on Ageing - CPA |
| Publisher | Centre for Policy on Ageing, London, 1997 |
| Pages | 4 pp (CPA findings, 2) |
| Source | CPA, 25-31 Ironmonger Row, London EC1V 3QP. |
| Keywords | Death ; Living alone ; Social surveys ; London. |
| Annotation | Every so often, a report appears in the national press about the body of an older person discovered in his or her own home weeks or months after death. Such reports are gruesome and distressing; they disclose the details of the invariably isolated life of someone who disappeared from the community without being noticed. More often than not, a local authority's social services or housing department is taken to task for having failed in its responsibilities as a service provider. This is a summary of background to and findings of the study, Deaths of people alone, by Kenneth Howse (CPA report 23), commissioned by Help the Aged. The cases of 647 people dying alone were identified from coroners' records covering Barking and Dagenham, Greenwich, Havering, Lambeth, Lewisham, Newham, Redbridge, Southwark and Waltham Forest. Comparison with results from the 1977 York study lends no real support to the view that found deaths have become more common since the 1960s and 1970s. |
| Accession Number | CPA-971106002 P |
| Classmark | CW: K8: 3F: 82L |
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