What kind of home is your care home? A typology of personalised care provided in residential and nursing homes

Ettelt, Stefanie, Williams, Lorraine, Damant, Jacqueline, Perkins, Margaret and Wittenberg, Raphael ORCID: 0000-0003-3096-2721 (2020) What kind of home is your care home? A typology of personalised care provided in residential and nursing homes. Ageing and Society. ISSN 0144-686X

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Abstract

This paper examines how care home managers in England conceptualised the approach to delivering personalised care in the homes they managed. We conducted interviews with care home managers and mapped the approaches they described on two distinct characterisations of personalised care prominent in the research and practitioner literature: the importance of close care relationships and the degree of resident choice and decision-making promoted by the care home. We derived three ‘types’ of personalised care in care homes. These conceptualise the care home as an ‘institution’, a ‘family’ and a ‘hotel’. We have added a fourth type, the ‘co-operative’, to propose a type that merges proximate care relationships with an emphasis on resident choice and decision-making. We conclude that each approach involves trade-offs and that the ‘family’ model may be more suitable for people with advanced dementia, given its emphasis on relationships. While the presence of a range of diverse approaches to personalising care in a care home market may be desirable as a matter of choice, access to care homes in England is likely to be constrained by availability and cost.

Item Type:	Article
Official URL:	https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/ageing-and...
Additional Information:	© 2020 The Authors
Divisions:	Personal Social Services Research Unit
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology
Date Deposited:	21 Aug 2020 15:39
Last Modified:	17 Apr 2024 01:36
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/106213

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