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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.
Audit guide: care of children and care of the elderly; volume 1
- Author:
- AUDIT COMMISSION FOR LOCAL AUTHORITIES IN ENGLAND AND WALES
- Publisher:
- Audit Commission for local Authorities in England and Wales
- Publication year:
- 1984
- Pagination:
- 17p., diags.
- Place of publication:
- London
(A step-by-step guide for auditors aimed at identifying those areas of social services activity where there may be scope for improvements in value for money.)