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标题：Protecting care home residents from mistreatment and abuse: on the need for policy
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作者：Amanda Phelan
期刊名称：Risk Management and Healthcare Policy
印刷版ISSN：1179-1594
电子版ISSN：1179-1594
出版年度：2015
卷号：8
页码：215-223
DOI：10.2147/RMHP.S70191
出版社：Dove Medical Press Ltd
摘要：With a rising older person population with increasing life expectancies, the demand for care homes will increase in the future. Older people in care homes are particularly vulnerable due to their dependencies related to cognitive and/or functional self-care challenges. Although many care homes provide good care, maltreatment and abuse of older people can and does occur. One major step in preventing and addressing maltreatment in care homes is having comprehensive and responsive policy, which delineates national expectations that are locally implemented. This paper examines the literature related to maltreatment in care homes and argues for policy based on a multisystems approach. Policy needs to firstly acknowledge and address general societal issues which tacitly impact on older person care delivery, underpin how care homes and related systems should be operationalized, and finally delineate expected standards and outcomes for individual experience of care. Such a policy demands attention at every level of the health care and societal system. Furthermore, contemporary issues central to policy evolution in care homes are discussed, such as safeguarding education and training and fostering organization whistle-blowing protection.
关键词：care homes; maltreatment; policy; older people