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The 'ideal home' visual game: a method of consumer research in old people's homes
- Author:
- WILLCOCKS Dianne
- Journal article citation:
- Research Policy and Planning, 2(1), 1984, pp.13-18.
- Publisher:
- Social Services Research Group
Interest in the accommodation and environmental requirements of old people living in residential homes has been stimulated by a growing body of evidence concerning the effects of the physical setting on the quality of their lives. This paper describes the development of a visual game technique for obtaining evidence about consumer preferences and the sort of features which residents would choose in a home. It is argues that the shift from conventional verbal interviews to a visual method permits elderly residents to act out the role of 'environmental decision-maker'.
Evaluating volunteer support to elderly people in residential homes
- Authors:
- POWER Michal, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Research Policy and Planning, 2(2), 1984, pp.14-20.
- Publisher:
- Social Services Research Group
The expansion of volunteer care to very elderly people has been less marked in the residential sector. In 1979 the DHSS funded a field experiment of quasi-experimental design to explore the potential and assess the effectiveness of neighbourhood support to very elderly residents of old people's homes in Weston-super-Mare, a retirement resort. The study was undertaken on two stages: a survey of attitudes to volunteers amongst residents and staff or private, voluntary and local authority homes, and a parallel survey of households in the central district where most of the homes are located; followed by an experiment of volunteer support to one home in each of the three matched pairs.