Suchergebnisse

Purpose
– The purpose of this paper is to explore the importance and nature of relationships of trust in care settings. The paper addresses the central question of what is it about these kinds of relationships that is associated with harm and abuse?


Design/methodology/approach
– The paper takes a discursive approach, based, implicitly, on an ecological framework of analysis.


Findings
– The conclusion is that the relationships between staff and service users in residential care settings are characterised by non-mutual dependency, isolation and unequal decision-making powers. Therefore such relationships deserve special focus and attention in order to safeguard and protect the people concerned.


Practical implications
– The paper implies that practitioners and policy makers should find ways to ensure that they listen more closely to people living in residential settings. Practitioners should ask more about the quality of relationships that people enjoy with the staff that support them.


Originality/value
– The paper suggests that in order to safeguard people more effectively, practitioners and policy makers should reconsider the central focus of their energies and revisit issues such as isolation, in the lives of disabled and older people living in residential care.

Summary: NCVHS 60th anniversary symposium -- Toward an enhanced information capacities for health: An NCVHS concept paper (June 2010) -- The National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics: Sixty years of making a difference: A history. ; Appendices: NCVHS members, staff, liaisons, retirees, subcommittees, workgroups (as of May 10, 2010) -- NCVHS Chairs and Executive Secretaries, 1949-2010 [and] NCVHS Executive Secretaries, 1949-present -- Charter: National Commitee on Vital and Health Statistics [and] NCVHS 60-year timeline. ; National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics. ; "February 2011." ; Title from screen viewed 8 June 2011. ; Also available in print. ; Mode of access: Internet. ; Includes bibliographical references.

Since its inception Research in Labor Economics has published over 350 articles encompassing a wide range of themes and spanning an array of labor economics topics. Authors have ranged from young scholars with much potential to mature leaders in the field, including Nobel Prize and John Bates Clark award winners. Over the years Research in Labor Economics has continued to present important new research in labor economics. It covers themes such as labor supply, work effort, schooling, on-the-job training, earnings distribution, discrimination, migration, and the effects of government policies on worker well-being. It aims to apply economic theory and econometrics to analyze important policy-related questions, often with an international focus. To commemorate Research in Labor Economics's 35th anniversary, this retrospective edition contains 20 of the most influential Research in Labor Economics articles along with new introductory prefatory updates written by the original authors. These new prefaces emphasize recent developments that each article might have inspired and also discuss remaining unanswered questions.