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Resources, rights and relationships
— family participation in residential care | | Author(s) | Cheryl Tilse |
| Corporate Author | Social Policy Research Centre - SPRC, University of New South Wales |
| Journal title | SPRC Reports and Proceedings, no 137, November 1997 |
| Pages | pp 121-130 |
| Keywords | Care homes ; Nursing homes ; Family relationships ; Spouses ; Participation ; Australia. |
| Annotation | The author examines the intersection of family, community and residential care in relation to one aspect of policy and practice: the construction of roles for family carers in residential care. Her research explores the convergence and disparity between the roles for families constructed in policy, the roles that are constructed in practice, and the roles that are sought by a particular group of family visitors to nursing homes: long-term spouses. Although there is agreement on the value of family participation in residential care and the importance of resource roles, there are also some conflicting perceptions of appropriate roles for families: for example advocate roles are sought but are often discouraged; likewise co-client and membership roles are given very limited priority. The author points to the need for common understandings on the purpose and nature of family involvement in residential care, and aged care policy generally. This paper was presented at Australia's Fifth National Social Policy Conference, held in Sydney in 1997, which had the theme, `States, markets, communities: remapping the boundaries'. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-980818211 A |
| Classmark | KW: LHB: DS:SJ: SN: TMB: 7YA |
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