Residential care transformed : revisiting 'The last refuge' / by Julia Johnson, Sheena Rolph, Randall Smith.
Material type: TextPublication details: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.Description: 288 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN:- 9780230202429 (hbk.) :
- 9780230202429 (Cloth)
- Older people -- Institutional care -- Great Britain
- Older people -- Institutional care -- Great Britain -- History
- Health and Wellbeing
- Social research & statistics
- Sociology
- Age groups: the elderly
- Care of the elderly
- Geriatric nursing
- Central / national / federal government policies
- Sociology: family & relationships
- Social work
- United Kingdom, Great Britain
- Social & cultural history
- 362.610941 JOH
- HV1454
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PART I: THE CONTEXT Why Revisit \'The Last Refuge\'?--A work of lasting importannce--The impact of --Townsend\'s research--Revisiting the Last Refuge--The plan of the book--2. Changing contexts of care--An ageing population--Changes in residential care provision--The welfare state: The early years--Privatization--Modernization--Paying for care--Personalization and residential care--Changing research agendas--3. The study design and methods--Survivors or non-survivors?--The tracing study--The context of change--Research instruments and methods--Access, participation and consent--Methodological issues--Part 11: Revisiting the last refuge:- 4. Survivors and non-survivors--The ex-PAIs--Other local authority homes--The voluntary homes--The private homes--Accounting for survival--Conclusion--5. Residents and staff:- Residents: Gender, age and ethnicity--Residents: Family and social circumstances--Residents: Personal assistance and capacity for self-care--Residents: Reasons for admission--Staff: Numbers and roles--Staff: Training and qualifications--Managerial responsibilities--Conclusion--6. Living environment--Location and scale--Internal spaces--External spaces--Creating a \'homely\' environment--Rules, regulations and routines--Managerial styles and staff attitudes-- Conclusion--7. Daily lives:- From domestic work to daily living activities--Caring and supporting--Organized group activities--Hobbies and pastimes--Friends, cliques and internal communities-- Getting out and about--The role of family and friends--Conclusion--8. The quality of care:- Townsend\'s quality measure--The CSCI quality ratings--The worst homes--The best homes--Conclusion--Part 111: Conclusions:- 9. Revisiting and reuse--Working with \'volunteer\' researchers--Reusing data--Conclusion--10. Continuity and change in Residential care for older people--Stability and change--Social care in the twenty-first century--De-stigmatizing residential care.
This text revisits Peter Townsend's classic study of residential care for older people in Britain conducted in the late 1950s. It provides not only a fascinating account of residential care for older people over the last 50 years but is also an important contribution to the literature on research methods.