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A home from home
- Author:
- WRIGHT Fay
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work Today, 25.4.91, 1991, pp.34-35.
- Publisher:
- British Association of Social Workers
Reports on research carried out by Age Concern into the numbers and variety of multi-purpose resource centres for elderly providing day care and home care services to the wider community.
The role of family care-givers for an older person resident in a care home
- Author:
- WRIGHT Fay
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Social Work, 30(5), October 2000, pp.649-661.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
A sample of 61 residents admitted during the preceding three years to 35 independent sector nursing or residential care homes in four local authority areas was interviewed. Five discrete roles for family care-givers in the care homes were described: checking the quality of care, companionship, handling the cared-for person's finances, giving the cared-for person practical help, and assisting the cared-for person with personal care. Although family care-givers described themselves as very satisfied with the care homes as a whole, as many as half were worried about some aspect of care. The research has implications for social workers, care home proprietors and registration and inspection units in encouraging care homes to adopt more 'relative friendly' policies.