Journal article
Privatising residential care for elderly people: The geography of developments in Devon, England
Abstract
The growth in numbers of very elderly people is becoming a trend in many Western societies. Often, these people may come to require some kind of assisted living environment. In Britain during the 1980s the overwhelming growth of residential accommodation has been in the private rather than the public sector. This has links with a number of other trends in health care and other sectors of the economy which are moving towards privatisation. The …
Authors
Phillips DR; Vincent J
Journal
Social Science & Medicine, Vol. 26, No. 1, pp. 37–47
Publisher
Elsevier
Publication Date
January 1988
DOI
10.1016/0277-9536(88)90043-3
ISSN
0277-9536