Control, Well-Being and the Meaning of Home in Care Homes and Extra Care Housing
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Promoting choice and control for older people is a policy priority that spans the fields of housing, health and social care (Cm 6737, 2006). Central government is committed to increasing the number of people being cared for in non-institutional environments and is promoting extra care housing (also referred to as very sheltered housing or enhanced sheltered housing), as a possible ‘alternative option to residential care’ (Department of Health, 2002a).
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تاریخ انتشار 2006