Last Chance For The Last Refuge |
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Authors: | Raymond Jack |
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Institution: | 25 Church Street, Haslingfield, Cambridge. |
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Abstract: | The theme of this article is the drastic reduction in residential care for the elderly which has met little opposition from within the health and social services despite the growing population of the very aged. The reasons for this professional compliance are examined and found to lie in a combination of mistaken confidence in community care policies and an uncritical acceptance of influential but largely outdated studies whose findings on the adverse effects of institutional care are seriously questioned by later research. |
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