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The last resort?
— revisiting ideas about older people's living arrangements | | Author(s) | Christine Oldman, Deborah Quilgars |
| Journal title | Ageing and Society, vol 19, part 3, May 1999 |
| Pages | pp 363-384 |
| Keywords | Living in the community ; Domiciliary services ; Care homes ; Living patterns ; Management [care] ; Finance [care] ; Literature reviews ; Theory. |
| Annotation | Residential care in the UK has always been seen as the provision of last resort: living in a home has always been contrasted unfavourably to living at home. This article begins with a critique of the literature relating to this contrast. It shows this body of work to be dominated by a structured dependency paradigm which depicts residential care as exemplar of institution, and home as embodying personal control and self-identity. A modification of the paradigm which gives prominence to diversity and meaning is used to analyse in-depth interviews with frail older people living at home and in a home. The analysis suggests that the prevailing account of residential care needs updating and some revision. The article concludes that the marketisation of social care has had both positive and negative effects on both care delivery in a home and at home. It also contends that there is a limited demand from older people for collective living arrangements, and that institutionalisation processes affect older people in whatever setting. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-990809007 A |
| Classmark | K4: N: KW: K7: QA: QC: 64A: 4D |
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