The Last Refuge: A Survey of Residential Institutions and Homes for the Aged in England and Wales |
Contents
OBJECTS AND METHODS OF STUDY | 3 |
HISTORY OF THE INSTITUTIONAL CARE OF The aged | 17 |
INSTITUTIONS AND THE CHARACTERISTICS of their | 40 |
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31 December 530 new residents accommodation admission areas authority Homes bath bedfast bedrooms beds cent chief welfare officer chiropody chronic sick county boroughs difficult doctor elderly residents England and Wales example fact fewer former public assistance former workhouse handbasins handicapped Homes Homes housing incapacity for self-care individual institutions and Homes interviewed Lancet large number less living local authority accommodation London married married couples matron meals Mental Hospital Ministry of Health months number of residents nursing occupational occupational therapy old people's old person old workhouses patients pensionable age physical Poor Law population post-war Homes private Homes problems proportion proprietor public assistance institutions relationships relatives Report residential Homes residential institutions Sample of 530 score social class sometimes staff staffing survey Table tion Total number visited voluntary and private voluntary associations voluntary Homes wardens week widowed woman women