Right place - Wrong person: Dignity in the acute care of older people

Quality in Ageing

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 33-43

  Tadd, Win ^a   Hillman, Alex ^a   Calnan, Sian ^b   Calnan, Mike ^b   Bayer, Tony ^a   Read, Simon ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acute care; Dignity; Ethnography; Older people; Patient outcomes

Indexed keywords

EID: 82455253751     PISSN: 14717794     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5042/qiaoa.2011.0143     Document Type: Review

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