Residential Care Transformed: Revisiting 'The Last Refuge'

Johnson, Julia; Rolph, Sheena and Smith, Randall (2010). Residential Care Transformed: Revisiting 'The Last Refuge'. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

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Item Type:

Book

2010 Julia Johnson, 2010 Sheena Rolph, 2010 Randall Smith

ISBN:

0-230-20242-X, 978-0-230-20242-9

Project Funding Details:

Funded Project Name	Project ID	Funding Body
Not Set	RES-000-23-0995	ESRC (Economic and Social Research Council)

Extra Information:

This book won the Inaugural Peter Townsend Policy Press Prize which was awarded at the British Academy in October 2011. The British Academy judging panel described it as a book that provides 'a unique insight into the changing nature of residential care over half a century', as being 'methodologically innovative' and 'beautifully written' and as such 'a model for students'.

Keywords:

Older people; Peter Townsend; Care homes; Qualitative longitudinal; Research ethics; secondary analysis; social care policy; participatory research; volunteer researchers

Academic Unit/School:

Faculty of Wellbeing, Education and Language Studies (WELS) > Health, Wellbeing and Social Care
Faculty of Wellbeing, Education and Language Studies (WELS)

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