Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the prevention of the abuse of older people in residential and nursing homes, through the identification of “early indicators of concern”. Such indicators support practitioners in identifying services in which older people are at risk...

For a variety of reasons, this article argues, electricity must be seen by policy-makers in South Africa not as the sole provider of all future household energy needs, but rather as one component of an energy mix which includes such 'transitional' fuels as coal, gas and paraffin. The reasons for...

Purpose General practitioners (GPs) play an important role in adult safeguarding. However, their experiences of this role have received scant attention in the UK and internationally. This study aimed to explore their experiences of safeguarding within care homes (CHs) for older adults where, as...