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Scandalous care
— interpreting public enquiry reports of scandals in residential care | | Author(s) | Roger Clough |
| Journal title | Journal of Elder Abuse & Neglect, vol 10, nos 1/2, 1999 |
| Pages | pp 13-27 |
| Source | http://www.tandfonline.com |
| Keywords | Elder abuse ; Neglect [care] ; Care homes ; Care home staff ; Committees of enquiry ; Interpretation. |
| Annotation | An earlier study written by the author for the Wagner Committee (1988) on scandals in residential care is reviewed. "Scandals in residential centres" was based on a study of ten enquiry reports, only two of which were about homes for older people. The main events that were described are grouped as: institutionalised practices; indifference and neglect; physical cruelty; humiliation; too authoritarian a life-style; a dull and depressing life-style; an overcrowded and run-down environment; disharmony among the staff team; and staff misappropriating goods or money. Now, more weight should be given to: residents' abuse of residents and staff; an improper influence on the life-style of others; and sexual abuse. Explanations proposed are: structural; environmental; and individual and worker style. Abuse is considered in the context of the nature of direct care and the acts of intimate caring for others. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-990729203 A |
| Classmark | QNT: QNR: KW: QRM: VKW: 4CC |
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