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Old Age Homes
Roger Clough
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Originally published in 1981, in Old Age Homes Roger Clough
presents a vivid description of the lives and work of residents and
staff in an old people’s home. His powerful analysis of the
realities of residential work would make a major contribution to
improved practice, to social work training, and to social policy
formation. Many people, including some social work professionals,
still felt that the very existence of residential homes illustrated
a failure of society, and that living with their own family or on
their own was invariably a more satisfactory experience for old
people. Roger Clough questions this assumption. He argues that
homes are needed and if they are to be good places in which to live
and die there must be a clearer understanding of the interactions
that take place within them. The descriptive parts of the study,
based on detailed observation and lengthy interviews, strongly
reflect the author’s genuine compassion and warmth for old
people. His most illuminating perceptions are presented from the
perspective of the old people themselves, many of whom were
conscious of the double-bind in which residents and staff are
caught: there is a prevailing belief that it is best to keep active
in old age, yet many of the elderly had little they though worth
doing, while the staff saw their role as doing whatever they could
for the residents. Roger Clough uses his material to test two
central hypotheses: first that there is a linkage between the
attitudes to aging held by staff and the degree of control over
their own lives exercised by residents; and secondly that this
degree of control is strongly correlated with resident
satisfaction. Through an acute analysis of these key variables, he
demonstrates the circumstances in which living in a home can be,
for certain old people at certain times, the way of life they
themselves would choose. His conclusions are of the greatest
importance for social work practice and for the changing of staff
attitudes in training. Old Age Homes would challenge anybody who
knows or works with a resident in an old people’s home. But it
would be of outstanding value for the managers, practitioners,
trainers and students to whom it was primarily addressed at the
time.
Originally published in 1981, in Old Age Homes Roger Clough
presents a vivid description of the lives and work of residents and
staff in an old people's home. His powerful analysis of the
realities of residential work would make a major contribution to
improved practice, to social work training, and to social policy
formation. Many people, including some social work professionals,
still felt that the very existence of residential homes illustrated
a failure of society, and that living with their own family or on
their own was invariably a more satisfactory experience for old
people. Roger Clough questions this assumption. He argues that
homes are needed and if they are to be good places in which to live
and die there must be a clearer understanding of the interactions
that take place within them. The descriptive parts of the study,
based on detailed observation and lengthy interviews, strongly
reflect the author's genuine compassion and warmth for old people.
His most illuminating perceptions are presented from the
perspective of the old people themselves, many of whom were
conscious of the double-bind in which residents and staff are
caught: there is a prevailing belief that it is best to keep active
in old age, yet many of the elderly had little they though worth
doing, while the staff saw their role as doing whatever they could
for the residents. Roger Clough uses his material to test two
central hypotheses: first that there is a linkage between the
attitudes to aging held by staff and the degree of control over
their own lives exercised by residents; and secondly that this
degree of control is strongly correlated with resident
satisfaction. Through an acute analysis of these key variables, he
demonstrates the circumstances in which living in a home can be,
for certain old people at certain times, the way of life they
themselves would choose. His conclusions are of the greatest
importance for social work practice and for the changing of staff
attitudes in training. Old Age Homes would challenge anybody who
knows or works with a resident in an old people's home. But it
would be of outstanding value for the managers, practitioners,
trainers and students to whom it was primarily addressed at the
time.
Tragically, some older people are abused in the very places where
they should hope to find 'care'. This work contains perhaps the
best analysis of the state of knowledge of this abuse at the time
of writing, ten years ago. The problems they describe still exist,
and the analysis remains relevant.
This text-book examines the policy and organizational context for
community care, and consists of interviews and case studies,
showing how community care is (or is not) working within the areas
of care for the elderly, learning disabilities, mental health and
physical disabilities.
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