Committed to the asylum? The long term care of older people (Leveson paper 3) Malcolm Johnson Committed to the asylum? The long term care of older people (Leveson paper 3) The Leveson Centre for the Study of Ageing, Spirituality and Social Policy www.leveson.org.uk £4.
In this report of a lecture, Malcolm Johnson responds to the attack on the institutional care of frail and vulnerable older people and the view that we can, and should, get rid of care homes. He argues that abandoning institutional care is against the evidence and suggests that we rediscover care homes as places of asylum for older people.