Quality in Ageing and Older Adults: Volume 1 Issue 1

Editorial

Ron Iphofen, Chris Joyce

Researching quality of life in old age

Alan Walker, Kristiina Martimo

This article focuses on researching quality of life in old age. Based on a review of the relevant literature, it argues that research has not reflected sufficiently the…

Care assistants overlooked?: A cross‐national study of care home staff in England and Germany

Ingrid Eyers

Within the context of residential care settings in England and Germany little consideration is given to the role of care assistants. Policies that determine the staffing levels in…

Accessing and interviewing the oldest old in care homes

Malcolm Fisk, Veronica Wigley

Accessing and interviewing older people in residential and nursing homes (care homes) presents a number of methodological challenges. Such challenges were encountered and, in many…

Modernising attitudes to age?: Using action research to explore the role of the Government in tackling ageism

Annette Boaz, Carol Hayden

Older people feel that ageism underlies many of their more specific concerns. A number of pieces of research carried out on behalf of the Inter‐Ministerial Group on Older People…

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