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| The meaning of family-like care among operators of small board and care homes | | Author(s) | J Kevin Eckert, Donna Cox, Leslie A Morgan |
| Journal title | Journal of Aging Studies, vol 13, no 3, Fall 1999 |
| Pages | pp 333-348 |
| Keywords | Care homes ; Small ; Management [care] ; Quality ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | 36 operators of small board and care homes in the US were interviewed to explore how they might conceptualise the care they provide to frail, older people. The meanings these operators attach to the care provided reveal - through stories of "why" and "how" they provide care - both shared meanings and dimensions of differences in how they view their work. A range of motivations (the "why" of care), from altruism to economics, combine with varied styles of service delivery (the "how" of care), from full domestic integration to separate domains, to create a typology of meanings in this form of residential care. Implications of these dimensions for quality of care are derived from this typology. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-991022234 A |
| Classmark | KW: 54: QA: 59: 7T |
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