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© British Association of Social Workers

"Contract" and Admission to Old People's Homes

RICHARD BLAND and ROSEMARY E. BLAND

Richard Bland is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Stirling University. From 1969 to 1972, he was a Research Associate at Edinburgh University and moved to Stirling as Lecturer in 1972. In 1978/9 he was on secondment as the SSRC Senior Computing Fellow.

Rosemary Bland was a Research Fellow at Stirling University from 1982 to 1984. Originally trained as a Medical Social Worker, she practised in hospitals in Glasgow and Edinburgh and has worked in various local authorities as a fieldworker. More recently, she was a Senior Caseworker for the Elderly in Hertfordshire.

Summary

Various authors have recently recommended that residents in Old People's Homes should have ‘contracts’. This article begins by discussing the nature of contracts in general, and the circumstances under which contracts are or are not felt to be appropriate.

The nature of Old People's Homes is discussed, and it is shown that, under what would be considered good practice, there are few reasons why Homes should not offer contracts. A final section puts forward some advantages which contracts might bring.


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