Finding voice: Harmonious and Discordant Care

  Life stories: 

Where exactly and when do life chances and health career pivot?

"Verdi founded the world's only retirement home

for hard-up singers and musicians in 1899, 

calling it his favourite of all his works." p.2

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INTERPERSONAL : SCIENCES

humanistic --------------------------------------- mechanistic

SOCIOLOGY : POLITICAL

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group

"You are born an artist or you are not and you stay an artist even if your voice is no longer a wonder" p.2	"unpleasant smells of urine" and "17-hour gaps" between dinner and breakfast  = "Inadequate" "Almost half of Britain's 410,000 residents receive some level of local authority support ..."
"Guests are free to come and go as they please and though Mandelli  doesn't go out to dinner any more, she still goes to La Scala, often to rehearsals." p.2	"Around one-third of the UK's bed capacity is at risk of closing within the next 5 years, ..." "The rise of the minimum wage has also put pressure on an industry where labour accounts for 70 per cent of costs, while Brexit has increased reliance on more expensive agency staff."

Sources:

Plimmer, G. (2017) Frailty of Four Seasons shows risk to residents, FT Weekend, 16-17 December. p.18.

Roberts, H. (2018) At Home: Harmony in Verdi's care home, House&Home, FT Weekend, 6-7 January. p.2.