Review: Pat and Hugh Armstrong on Residential Care Transformed

Julia Johnson, Sheena Rolph and Randall Smith, Residential Care Transformed: Revisiting ‘The Last Refuge’ (Basingstoke UK: Palgrave Macmillam, 2010)

This is an important book. It addresses key issues about the quality of residential care for the elderly, about “institutional” life more broadly, and especially about methodologies and ethics in social science research. After a brief background sketch, we start with the related methodological and ethical issues. Read more