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Last Chance For The Last Refuge
Author(s) -
Jack Raymond
Publication year - 1987
Publication title -
social policy and administration
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.972
H-Index - 63
eISSN - 1467-9515
pISSN - 0144-5596
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9515.1987.tb00270.x
Subject(s) - opposition (politics) , health care , theme (computing) , social care , care in the community , population , psychology , political science , gerontology , nursing , sociology , economic growth , social psychology , medicine , demography , economics , law , politics , computer science , operating system
The theme of this article is the drastic reduction in residential care for the elderly which has met little opposition from within the health and social services despite the growing population of the very aged. The reasons for this professional compliance are examined and found to lie in a combination of mistaken confidence in community care policies and an uncritical acceptance of influential but largely outdated studies whose findings on the adverse effects of institutional care are seriously questioned by later research.