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People, pets and care homes: a story of ambivalence
- Authors:
- SMITH Randall, JOHNSON Julia, ROLPH Sheena
- Journal article citation:
- Quality in Ageing and Older Adults, 12(4), 2011, pp.217-228.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
The aim of this article is to examine the history of pet ownership and its relationship to well-being in later life, and to compare current and past attitudes, policies and practices with regard to the issue of pet ownership in communal residential settings for older people. The article includes a review of the literature on pets and older people. It discusses pets and health and well-being, pets and older people, pet visiting schemes and institutional care, and personal and communal pets in care homes. It also draws on new data from research conducted by the authors, which compared archived material on residential homes for older people visited in the late 1950s as part of a study by Peter Townsend (The Last Refuge) with findings from revisiting a sample of these homes 50 years later. The research included observation and interviews with managers and residents, and responses indicated ambivalent attitudes, ambiguity at the policy level, and variation in practice.
Self-neglect in later life
- Author:
- JOHNSON Julia
- Journal article citation:
- Health and Social Care in the Community, 4(4), July 1996, pp.226-233.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Reviews the research literature on self-neglect which comes primarily from the medical profession. It is argued that evidence that gross self-neglect constitutes a specific psychiatric syndrome (commonly referred to as Diogenes syndrome) is scant. Given current moves to make legal provision for the protection of 'vulnerable' older people, more rigorous research into self-neglect is required.