Residential Care Transformed: Revisiting 'the Last Refuge'

By Julia Johnson, Sheena Rolph, Randall Smith

Book Overview

This book, now in paperback, revisits Peter Townsend's classic study of residential care for older people in Britain conducted in the late 1950s. It provides not only a fascinating account of residential care for older people over the last 50 years but is also an important contribution to the literature on research methods.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 023020242X
• ISBN13: 9780230202429
• Release Date: May 2010
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 285 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.6" x 8.5"