Explaining about - advocacy and care home residents
- Author:
- WRIGHT Fay
- Journal article citation:
- Working with Older People, 9(1), March 2005, pp.9-12.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Explains how advocacy can empower care home residents and how these services are currently provided, and argues for better funding. Also briefly reports on a pilot study of local Age Concern advocacy schemes funded under the Nuffield Foundation's small grants programme in the autumn of 2003. The study highted different advocacy service models, numbers of referrals, types of referrals and funding problems.
- Subject terms:
- older people, residents, advocacy, care homes, empowerment, financing;
- Content type:
- research
- Link:
- Journal home page
- ISSN print:
- 1366-3666