The 'keepers' mentioned in the title of this book are workers in prisons, long-stay hospitals, homes for mentally retarded people and other total institutions. Their feelings about their work and about the institutions are presented here in twelve monologues selected from more than 60 interviews with workers in 27 different ...
This document is the result of a working group who had a shared commitment and concern for the lives of people living in long-stay psychiatric wards. The group wishes to acknowledge that for some people a psychiatric hospital will continue to be their home and that the service they receive ...
The ways in which hospitals administer patients' money and provide residents with access to their income play a large part in controlling the amount of money a resident can use. Because so little attention has been paid to the financial position of residents in long-stay hospitals it is not know ...
This workshop was organised jointly by the King's Fund Centre and the Disabled Living Foundation for clothing managers, linen services managers and staff with daily practical responsibility for patients' clothing in long-stay hospitals. Discussion centred around personal choice of clothing; the role of the supplies officer in buying personal clothing; ...
These notes have been prepared with the cooperation of Community Service Volunteers (CSVs) in order to provide some guidance to both hospital staff and individual CSVs who are considering projects of this nature.