On Our Conscience: The Plight of the ElderlySocial research case study of living conditions of low income older people in the sheffield urban area illustrating the extent of poverty and slum living among elderly people and the need for improvement of relevant housing and social services in the UK. |
Contents
Preface | 7 |
The Age of Neglect II | 11 |
Enlightened City Geriatric Slum | 21 |
Copyright | |
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accommodation action groups Alderman authority services beginning of 1970 better blocks building cent centre coordination Corporation cost Council demand district district nurse domiciliary services dwellings family doctors flatlet schemes geriatric give Government Health and Welfare health visitor Help the Aged home help hospital Housing Department Hyde Park increase Intelligence Unit investigation Kelvin large number local-authority loneliness lonely meals on wheels ment munity National Health Service neighbours nursing old age old folk's homes old people live old people's flats old person old woman Park Hill patients pensioners personal social services planning poverty present problems rehousing Research and Intelligence residential homes responsibility Rotherham Borough Rotherham Rural District Seebohm Report senile Sheard Sheffield sheltered housing shortage slum clearance Social Care Department staff statutory services survey tion voluntary organizations waiting-list week Welfare Department welfare services workers