LEADER 04251 am 22007573u 450 001 9910229239903321 005 20230307193629.0 010 $a3-319-54813-1 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-319-54813-5 035 $a(CKB)4100000000587692 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-319-54813-5 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5588931 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL5588931 035 $a(OCoLC)1008870650 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6422768 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL6422768 035 $a(OCoLC)1024263004 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/50068 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000000587692 100 $a20170915d2017 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#008mamaa 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aImproving Psychiatric Care for Older People$b[electronic resource] $eBarbara Robb?s Campaign 1965-1975 /$fby Claire Hilton 205 $a1st ed. 2017. 210 $cPalgrave Macmillan$d2017 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2017. 215 $a1 online resource (XXIII, 283 p. 17 illus., 4 illus. in color.) 225 1 $aMental Health in Historical Perspective,$x2634-6036 311 $a3-319-54812-3 327 $a1. Introduction: A strange eventful history -- 2. Psychiatric hospitals and older people: status quo or making changes? -- 3. Barbara Robb, Amy Gibbs and the ?Diary of a Nobody? -- 4. Establishing AEGIS and writing Sans Everything: ?the case? and ?some answers? -- 5. Reprinted before publication: plotting a route for Sans Everything -- 6. The inquiries: a lion?s den -- 7. Whitewash and after: ?Most good is done by stealth? -- 8. Then and now: concluding remarks. 330 $aThis book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This book tells the story of Barbara Robb and her pressure group, Aid for the Elderly in Government Institutions (AEGIS). In 1965, Barbara visited 73-year-old Amy Gibbs in a dilapidated and overcrowded National Health Service psychiatric hospital back-ward. She was so appalled by the low standards that she set out to make improvements. Barbara?s book Sans Everything: A case to answer was publicly discredited by a complacent and self-righteous Ministry of Health. However, inspired by her work, staff in other hospitals ?whistle-blew? about events they witnessed, which corroborated her allegations. Barbara influenced government policy, to improve psychiatric care and health service complaints procedures, and to establish a hospitals' inspectorate and ombudsman. The book will appeal to campaigners, health and social care staff and others working with older people, and those with an interest in policy development in England, the 1960s, women?s history and the history of psychiatry and nursing. 410 0$aMental Health in Historical Perspective,$x2634-6036 606 $aGreat Britain?History 606 $aSocial history 606 $aMedicine?History 606 $aSociology 606 $aHistory of Britain and Ireland$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/717020 606 $aSocial History$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/724000 606 $aHistory of Medicine$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/H64000 606 $aGender Studies$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/X35000 610 $asocial welfare 610 $aNHS 610 $apublic services 610 $aolder people 610 $ahistory 610 $apsychiatry 615 0$aGreat Britain?History. 615 0$aSocial history. 615 0$aMedicine?History. 615 0$aSociology. 615 14$aHistory of Britain and Ireland. 615 24$aSocial History. 615 24$aHistory of Medicine. 615 24$aGender Studies. 676 $a941 700 $aHilton$b Claire$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$0851597 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910229239903321 996 $aImproving Psychiatric Care for Older People$91949973 997 $aUNINA