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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