... that there are factors external to care homes that a home may have little knowledge of and no ability to control. Safety Care homes Social care Safeguarding Older adults Nursing homes Safeguarding Adult Reviews Safety is increasingly seen as important in older adult care homes in England. These homes...

... consisted of only 16 nursing homes (12 not-for-profit and 4 for-profit nursing homes). The fact that only 4 of the 16 LTC homes were for-profit is a potential limitation both in general and in particular because research has shown that lower quality of care and elder abuse and neglect are more common...

... on the monitoring system for controlling the quality of care in nursing homes. The purpose of this paper is to analyse how mistreatment of older people is identified and dealt with by the national social security services. In particular it looks at what the indicators are with which to assess poor quality care...

...David Marsland; Peter Oakes; Caroline White Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the prevention of the abuse of older people in residential and nursing homes, through the identification of “early indicators of concern”. Such indicators support practitioners in identifying...

... and regulatory gap in the ability to hold corporate bodies to account for neglect or abuse that occurs in their institutions. This must now be urgently addressed. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2013 Safeguarding Older people Learning/intellectual disabilities Elderly people Nursing homes...

... Group Publishing Limited 2013 Local authorities Social services Higher courts Nursing homes Governance Adult safeguarding Natural justice Legitimate expectation Case conference In a recent case, the High Court has been very critical of safeguarding measures taken by one...