Quality in Ageing and Older Adults: Volume 5 Issue 2

Promoting excellence in services through research, policy and practice

Subjects:

Table of contents

Communicating in family aged care dyads Part 1: The influence of stereotypical role expectations

Helen Edwards, Helen Chapman

This paper contends that dysfunctional patterns of communication can develop in family aged care dyads in response to stereotypical role expectations in the…

Duration of stay and outcome for inpatients on an assessment ward for elderly patients with cognitive impairment

Sue Ball, Steve Simpson, Diane Beavis, John Dyer

The move away from the provision of long‐stay beds by the NHS inevitably meant a change in function for wards for elderly patients with cognitive impairment to a more acute way of…

Communicating interviews: The experience of research with minority ethnic older people in Britain

Chih Sin

Interviewing minority ethnic older people can seem daunting. It is easy for stereotypical views of minority ethnic groups and of older people to lead to pathologising approaches…

Crossroads after 50: Approach with care

Donald Hirsch

‘Active ageing’ was once a term associated mainly with a physically active, even sporty, retirement. In recent years, economic and demographic circumstances, together with…

Cover of Quality in Ageing and Older Adults

ISSN:

1471-7794

Online date, start – end:

2000

Copyright Holder:

Emerald Publishing Limited

Open Access:

hybrid

Editor:

  • Prof Fiona Poland