“Specific Page Title or Article Title” | "Revealed: Sad plight of the thousands of elderly left alone in homes 'without letters, visits or calls' in their final years" |
Primary Contributor to the Website (if given) (author, editor, producer, etc) | Daily Mail Reporter |
Title of the Entire Website (not www. ) | Mail Online |
Publisher or Sponsoring Organization of the website (if given) | Associated Newspapers Ltd |
Date Page was Last Revised | 11 November 2010 |
Date You Read It | 2 February 2012 |
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FIVE FACTS FROM THE SOURCE (Embedded): |
According to the Relatives and Residents Association (R&RA), there are about "40,000 elderly people" in nursing homes in England who live their lives in "social isolation" (Daily Mail Reporter). |
There are up to 13,000 who do not receive letters, phone calls, and visits; leaving them without "kith and kin" (Daily Mail Reporter). |
Although only seven percent of nursing homes responded to the survey, they claimed that "the estimated 13,000 living in complete isolation was 'conservative'" (Daily Mail Reporter). |
Not only are they in "complete isolation," but they are also being financially abused and neglected; to the point where the manager bought a room for his son, which according to the article is "unethical" (Daily Mail Reporter). |
According to the article, ":the Government is determined to strengthen community action," providing more core for the elderly in nursing homes (Daily Mail Reporter). |
Summary of Source (Three-Four Sentences of the Who, What, Where, Why, and How in your own words. NO OPINION):
Daily Mail Reporter brings together information about nursing homes in England and tells us how most of the elderly living in them feel isolated and lonely. It talked about the negative effect of nursing homes and how it effects the people living in them by making them even more depresses than they already are. The writer tells us that we need to pay more attention to them because it IS an issue.Credibility of Source:
Author or Site: Who is the author? What training have they had? If there is no author, examine the site. What is the purpose of the site? Who funds the site?
Daily Mail Reporter writes a variety of articles, mainly focusing on news, right minds, and TV&Showbiz. Daily Mail Reporter mainly writes articles about U. K.
Attachment: Does the author or site have anything to gain from writing this, or is it simply informative? For example, is it a cigarette business posting an article about the benefit of cigarettes, or is it a scientific community unaffiliated with the cigarette business?
The author or site does not have much to gain from writing this other than being happy to inform people about the issues in nursing homes and how nursing homes affect most of the elderly in negative ways.
Bias: Do you detect a bias (a favoring of either side) in the author's writing?
I do detect a bias in the author's writing because the author mainly focuses on the cons of nursing homes and says nothing positive about them.
References: Does the author cite references in the writing? If so, do these add or take away from the credibility? The author uses people such as Judy Downey of the R&R and Care Services Minister Paul Burstow to make the argument stronger. This adds to the credibility because it shows that Daily Mail Reporter is not the only one that thinks this is an issue.
Use of Source: How will you use this source in your project?
I plan to use this source to support my opinion that the elderly in nursing homes need more attention and visitors because most of them are getting neither.
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