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Residential life today, government rhetoric and individual rights: a match for reality?
- Author:
- SUMNER Keith
- Journal article citation:
- Practice: Social Work in Action, 14(2), June 2002, pp.19-30.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Explores the position of older people in influencing and negotiating their own living and care arrangements, with focus on residential care. It outlines the factors that have lead to the current position with regard to key social policies. The article and examines recent research into the experiences of life in residential care and the extent to which older people's rights, through various items of legislation, guidance and other 'good practice' publications have been realised.
Our homes, our lives: choice in later life living arrangements
- Editor:
- SUMNER Keith
- Publisher:
- Centre for Policy on Ageing/Housing Corporation
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 208p.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- London
The involvement of older people as active partners in planning their future living arrangements, and elements of care support, must be at the heart of day-to-day practice, policy planning and design. Contributors provide an overview of the current situation faced by older people in terms of policy issues, architectural and design perspectives, and conceptual understandings of autonomy and independence.