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| Home from home: residents' opinions of nursing homes and long-stay wards | | Author(s) | Paul F D Higgs, Lea D MacDonald, John S MacDonald |
| Journal title | Age and Ageing, vol 27, no 2, March 1998 |
| Pages | pp 199-206 |
| Keywords | Long term patients ; Nursing homes ; Geriatric units ; Quality of life ; Social surveys ; London. |
| Annotation | The UK's community care policy views institutional care in hospital as inferior to nursing home care. The authors report a survey of the views of accommodation and treatment of a representative section of 377 nursing home residents in the former South West Thames health region. Their answers were compared with a previous survey by the authors of 291 long-stay geriatric patients. The responses to the five themes - relations with staff, autonomy, amenities, privacy and social environment - show some minor differences between the two groups, but more noticeable is the similarity of their views. This is important, as much social policy assumes that the more "homely" atmosphere of the nursing home should elicit higher levels of satisfaction that the "institutional" setting of the hospital ward. The authors conclude that the difference between nursing homes and hospital wards in terms of their institutionalising capacities is not as profound as policy-makers believe. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-981208226 A |
| Classmark | LF7:4Q: LHB: LDB: F:59: 3F: 82L |
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