Ensuring older residents retain their unique identity

Glenda Cook

Ensuring older residents retain their unique identity

Nursing, Midwifery and Health

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Abstract

Older people want more than to simply exist. Yet moving to a care home can lead to 'social death', where the individual continues to function biologically but ceases to be an active agent in their own life.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	290-293
Journal	Nursing and Residential Care
Volume	12
Issue number	6
Publication status	Published - Jun 2010

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