In 1980 old people comprised over half the clients of Local Authority Social Services Departments and accounted for about half of their resources, yet until then residential care of the aged had been a backwater of both research and practice. During the 1970s a large research literature had developed on the subject, particularly in the United States. However, studies had been partial in their focus on issues, making no attempt to draw together their arguments to create a model that described and evaluated competing theories about what it is that determines the quality of residential life. Originally published in 1981, Bleddyn Davies and Martin Knapp filled that gap in this book.
The authors discuss not only the theoretical arguments about residential care and the degree to which those theories had been verified by research, but also how far the factors considered to be important had been successfully measured, considering the choices to be made between alternative varieties of care that had grown up so rapidly in the previous five years. The authors conclude with an analysis of how their approach should contribute to the discussion of issues that was to be faced by British policy-makers in the 1980s as our welfare systems attempted to cope with the increasing numbers of the very old.
By:
Bleddyn Davies, Martin Knapp Imprint: Routledge Country of Publication: United Kingdom Dimensions:
Height: 216mm,
Width: 138mm,
Weight: 648g ISBN:9781032689685 ISBN 10: 1032689684 Series:Routledge Library Editions: Aging Pages: 262 Publication Date:10 May 2024 Audience:
General/trade
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College/higher education
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Adult education
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ELT Advanced
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Primary
Format:Hardback Publisher's Status: Active
