Opening doors : a case study of multi-purpose residential homes
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Bibliographic Information
Opening doors : a case study of multi-purpose residential homes
(Studies in ageing / Age Concern Institute of Gerontology, King's College London)
HMSO, c1995
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  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
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  Sweden
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  United States of America
Note
At foot of title page: Age Concern Institute of Gerontology, King's College, London
Bibliography: p. [111]-117
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This text takes a critical look at the increasingly widespread policy of using residential care premises to provide services for non-resident frail older people and their carers. It reports both on the national surveys of such multi-purpose homes and on case studies of six individual homes. After interviews with staff, long-term residents, day centre users and carers, the author concludes that although there may be some obvious advantages in allowing residential home facilities to be used by a wider group, the policy was less than popular with the older people themselves. This book challenges a significant development in contemporary service provision and should be of particular interest in allowing the voice of the user to be heard.
Table of Contents
- The national picture
- case studies
- management aims
- day centre users - an integrated package of care? changing attitudes to residential care?
- a better quality of life for residents?
- supporting carers?
- staff
- a cost-effective model of care?
- the multi-purpose home - a model for the future?
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