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'Starting with Peter Townsend's landmark study of residential care, The Last Refuge, and re-tracing his footsteps the authors have produced a remarkable volume that successfully combines a record of the sea-change in residential care over the past 50 years, a compelling analysis of current care environments and quality, a novel example of participative research and a forceful critique of fashionable simplistic portrayals of institutions. The book is a fully worthy companion to Townsend's classic study and will become an indispensable text for anyone interested in how society treats some of its most vulnerable citizens.' - Alan Walker, Professor of Social Policy and Social Gerontology, University of Sheffield, UK

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JULIA JOHNSON is a Visiting Senior Research Fellowat the Faculty of Health and Social Care at The Open University, UK. She has published widely on the topics related to ageing and later life andwas review editor of the journal Ageing& Society. Her most recent book is Understanding Health and Social Care (edited with Corinne DeSouza). SHEENA ROLPH is Visiting Senior Research Fellow at The Open University, UK. She has published widely in the social history of learning disability and the history of residential care for older people. Her background is in art history and her research interests include the history of visual images relating to her specialist fields. RANDALL SMITH is Professor of Social Gerontology in the School for Policy Studies, University of Bristol, UK. He has co-authored books on community care and the development of policies for older people. Between 2003 and 2009, he was a member of the Executive Committee of the British Society of Gerontology and is a Trustee of Age Concern Bristol.

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