Journal article
Choice in Residential Care: Myths and Realities*
Abstract
This paper examines the proposition that the welfare policies enacted and legitimized in the name of 'choice' have the effect of increasing the effective choice of service by consumers of welfare. The example of residential care of the elderly is used to illustrate the ways in which privatisation has influenced choices of care for elderly people in Devon. The paper reviews empirical material from two survey of private homes in Devon in order to …
Authors
Vincent JA; Tibbenham AD; Phillips DR
Journal
Journal of Social Policy, Vol. 16, No. 4, pp. 435–460
Publisher
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Publication Date
October 1987
DOI
10.1017/s0047279400016123
ISSN
0047-2794