... rights only Older people Abuse Empirical research Adults at risk Commissioning and safeguarding Contract monitoring and safeguarding Safeguarding policy and practice With the continued shrinkage of public sector owned and operated residential care home provision for older people...

...Steve Moore Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present findings from an empirical research project designed to enhance knowledge of the current extent and nature of abuse in contemporary care homes for older people. Design/methodology/approach A self-completion, postal questionnaire...

... Policy and practice Adults at risk Empirical research Care homes A previous paper (Moore, 2016) presented the results and conclusions from one component of a mixed methods research project exploring the abuse of older people in private sector care homes. The data set out in that paper were...

... of abusive acts and practices. Findings suggest that changes are required to current methods of external scrutiny and investigation of practices in care homes. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2016 Abuse Policy change Empirical research Care homes Policy and practice Vulnerable older people...