title: The benefits of smaller care homes is not a new discovery.
abstract: It is dispiriting to note the finding that people with dementia thrive in smaller care homes (clinical digest September 26). This is a classic lost opportunity. In 1988, the Griffiths report recommended that care homes have no more than 21 residents.
authors.affiliation: Registered Nursing Home Association.
authors.forename: Andrew
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Makin