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

Authors :
Ettelt, Stefanie
Williams, Lorraine
Damant, Jacqueline
Perkins, Margaret
Wittenberg, Raphael
Source :
Ageing & Society; May2022, Vol. 42 Issue 5, p993-1013, 21p
Publication Year :
2022

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. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
0144686X
Volume :
42
Issue :
5
Database :
Complementary Index
Journal :
Ageing & Society
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
156494254
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1017/S0144686X20001142