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Abstract
In revisiting Peter Townsend’s classic study of residential care, The Last Refuge (in the course of which he covered 173 care homes in the late 1950s), we employed 79 locally based volunteers, mainly older people, to find out what became of the homes after 1959. This chapter describes how and why the volunteers were recruited and how they benefited both the research and themselves.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Coproduction? |
| Subtitle of host publication | Working with Existing Older People’s Groups |
| Editors | Josie Tetley, Jacqueline Watts, Jill Reynolds |
| Place of Publication | London |
| Publisher | Centre for Policy on Ageing |
| Pages | 4-22 |
| Number of pages | 19 |
| Volume | 11 |
| ISBN (Print) | 978-0-90413-905-1 |
| Publication status | Published - 2013 |
Publication series
| Name | The Representation of Older People in Ageing Research Series |
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Research Groups and Themes
- PolicyBristolHealthAndWellbeing
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Residential Care Transformed: The Last Refuge Revisited
Johnson, J. (Principal Investigator), Smith, R. C. (Researcher) & Rolph, S. (Researcher)
1/02/05 → 31/01/07
Project: Research