Using this approach, the researchers were able to place the residents' interpretations of social interactions in the specific context of the care home.
For others, the unavailability or unacceptability of community care meant that admission to a care home was the only realistic option.
The individual care plans generated by care home staff and subsequent care are subject to regulation by health authority registration inspection teams.
The study's conclusion that exercise causes a significant and positive effect on function in elderly care home residents is treated cautiously.
In this research the care home residents employed the language of consumerism.
She relates, movingly, the story of her experience of a grandmother dying in a care home.
The majority (over twothirds) of the older people concerned had not had any paid support at home prior to the care home admission.
These self-funding residents were commonly relatively physically independent on admission to the care home.
