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The environments of ageing: space, place and materiality
- Author:
- PEACE Sheila
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- Publication year:
- 2022
- Pagination:
- 410
- Place of publication:
- Bristol
Providing the first UK assessment of environmental gerontology, this book enriches current understanding of the spatiality of ageing. The author considers how places and spaces contextualise personal experience in varied environments, from urban and rural to general and specialised housing. Situating extensive research within multidisciplinary thinking, and incorporating policy and practice, this book assesses how personal health and wellbeing affect different experiences of environment. It also considers the value of intergenerational and age-related living, the meaning of home and global to local concerns for population ageing. Drawing on international comparisons, this book offers a valuable resource for new research and important lessons for the future. (Edited publisher abstract)
Adult care
- Author:
- PEACE Sheila
- Journal article citation:
- Research Matters, April 2006, pp.5-12.
- Publisher:
- Community Care
The author looks at research which highlights the health care needs of older people resident in care homes. The second study featured looks at how care home staff and NHS professionals work together.
Adult care
- Author:
- PEACE Sheila
- Journal article citation:
- Research Matters, 16, October 2003, pp.5-10.
- Publisher:
- Community Care
This article draws on research from two studies, the first of which considers the capacity of nursing homes in England to provide rehabilitation and intermediate care; and the second which compares the quality of health care provided for residents by nursing homes with those living at home.
Adult care
- Author:
- PEACE Sheila
- Journal article citation:
- Research Matters, April 2002, pp.5-10.
- Publisher:
- Community Care
Reports on how working conditions of care home staff, and asks whether the measures being taken to raise standards truly address the employment climate the sector currently finds itself in.
Residential care for adults
- Author:
- PEACE Sheila
- Journal article citation:
- Research Matters, 11, April 2001, pp.46-48.
- Publisher:
- Community Care
The debate over the future of long-term care has been heated, and there has been much criticism of the government for not taking up the recommendations of the Royal Commission. Reviews research which examines people's experience of the current financing of services.
Residential care for adults
- Author:
- PEACE Sheila
- Journal article citation:
- Research Matters, October 2000, pp.30-32.
- Publisher:
- Community Care
Looks at current research revealing how much remains to be done in tackling the abuse of vulnerable adults in residential care: by staff, by other residents, and by 'the system'.
Residential care for adults
- Author:
- PEACE Sheila
- Journal article citation:
- Research Matters, 9, April 2000, pp.36-38.
- Publisher:
- Community Care
The research reviewed in this article considers contrasting approaches to residential care, and the different lifestyles the residents may experience as a result.
Residential care for adults
- Author:
- PEACE Sheila
- Journal article citation:
- Research Matters, 8, October 1999, pp.52-54.
- Publisher:
- Community Care
Discusses studies into the relationships of people living in residential care homes that draw attention to the way close relatives and friends of residents can be excluded from caring tasks that may have been integral to their relationship with the cared for person.
Developing new understandings of independence and autonomy in the personalised relationship
- Authors:
- LEECE Janet, PEACE Sheila
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Social Work, 40(6), September 2010, pp.1847-1865.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
The personalisation of adult social care has the potential to create support that is individualised. This research attempts to develop a wider understanding of these new support relationships from the perspectives of both disabled adults and the workers they employ to provide their support. The study compared the relationship between disabled adults and homecare workers employed by a local authority with those between disabled adults using direct payments to employ their own personal assistants. It pays attention to the meanings attached to the concepts of independence and autonomy, with a model of autonomy applied to aid clarity and develop understanding of complexities in support relationships. The study used a grounded theory approach with qualitative interviews of two groups: a sample of eight direct payment users and eight personal assistants; and a sample of eight homecare users and eight homecare workers. Based on the research, the article argues that direct employment of support workers appears to facilitate greater autonomy for disabled adults than traditional homecare relationships. However, the greater autonomy for disabled adults may have a downside for support workers.
Environment and identity in later life
- Authors:
- PEACE Sheila, et al
- Publisher:
- Open University
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 182p.
- Place of publication:
- Maidenhead
Although with increasing old age an increasing proportion of older people live in age segregated settings, for most older people domestic homes in mixed communities continue to be the location of everyday life. The person/environment relationship is a complex one that involves the formation, maintenance and expression of self-identity. As people age and experience losses in other domains of life, their relationships with the places where they live can change and become more critical. This study looked at homes, neighbourhoods, and the spaces in between. It included a range of housing from residential care homes and sheltered housing to different types and tenures of flats and houses in different sizes of settlements.