
The design has attracted a great deal of interest from gerontologists and social science methodologists leading to numerous speaking invitations.

These include practical and ethical issues connected with the reuse of archived data and with replicating Townsend’s original method of inquiry in our own follow up fieldwork. Its focus is the methodological challenges that our innovative qualitative longitudinal design (showcased on the ESDS website) raises. Download The Last Refuge: A True Story of War, Survival and Life Under Siege in Srebrenica Full Simple Step to Read and Download: 1. 89–103.īased on on-going ESRC funded research which, drawing on archived data, is revisiting Peter Townsend’s seminal study of residential care for older people, ‘The Last Refuge (1962). In: Bernard, Miriam and Scharf, Thomas eds.Ĭritical perspectives on ageing societies.īristol, UK: The Policy Press, pp.

Revisiting 'The Last Refuge': present day methodological challenges. Johnson, Julia Rolph, Sheena and Smith, Randall
