Social Nursing Home

In his first book, visionary social care leader Liam Palmer shares anecdotes and well-researched articles to challenge, inform, and, ultimately, raise standards in the care home sector. He applies his strategic thinking to a number of complex problems within care to unpick these dynamics and identify the drivers and forces at work.

A simple yet profound shift, seeing people as people is an idea so simple you'll swear you've heard it a million times but so profound you'll never stop learning from it. Kimberly White discovered it in a chain of nursing homes whose leaders, nurses, and housekeepers saw their patients, not as tasks to be ticked off a to-do list, but as valuable human beings. White helps you to adopt this transformative shift with warm encouragement, insightful guidance, and powerfully moving, true accounts of extraordinary human goodness.

This book gives a voice to thousands of families and patients who have experienced neglect and abuse while in a nursing home.

"Where's my money, Pam?" Something's wrong with Mama and Jolly knows it. He wishes he could help, but he doesn't know how - and a dog can only do so much. All of Mrs Gracie's money is gone and she suspects her new keeper, Pam, who has been "really taking over" here lately, tricking her into signing some papers she doesn't really understand. "Give them an inch and they'll take a mile." Mary Grace Hornbuckle Moore of Jasper, Alabama, has Alzheimer's and she's not exactly at her best these days, but she's not going to take all this lying down because she's a tough little lady, a coal miner's ...