Caretelization revisited and the lessons of Southern Cross

Critical Social Policy

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 137-148

  Scourfield, Peter ^a  

^a ANGLIA RUSKIN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

care homes; older people; privatization; regulation; residential care

Indexed keywords

ACCOUNTABILITY; ELDERLY CARE; ELDERLY POPULATION; PRIVATIZATION;

AUSTRALIA; SOUTHERN CROSS; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

EID: 84856148608     PISSN: 02610183     EISSN: 1461703X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0261018311425202     Document Type: Article

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