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Record Nr.

UNINA9911026061903321

Autore

Gillick Muriel R. <1951->

Titolo

Old and Sick in America : The Journey through the Health Care System / / Muriel R. Gillick

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chapel Hill : , : University of North Carolina Press, , [2017]

Baltimore, Md. : , : Project MUSE, , 2018

©[2017]

ISBN

979-88-908501-5-7

979-88-908501-6-4

1-4696-3525-9

1-4696-3526-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Collana

Studies in social medicine

Disciplina

362.1084/6

362.1989700973

Soggetti

Medical care, Cost of - United States

Older people - Long-term care - United States

Medicare

Older people - Health and hygiene - United States

Older people - Medical care - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The office -- Going to the doctor -- The lay of the land -- From the outside in -- The march of time, 1965-2015 -- The hospital -- Entering the palace of technology -- The varieties of hospital experience -- The hospital through other eyes -- The transformation of the American hospital, 1965-2015 -- The skilled nursing facility -- Going to rehab -- Different SNFs, different miffs -- Movers and shapers -- Now and then.

Sommario/riassunto

"Since the introduction of Medicare and Medicaid in 1965, the American health care system has steadily grown in size and complexity. Muriel R. Gillick takes readers on a narrative tour of American health care, incorporating the stories of older patients as they travel from the office to the hospital to the skilled nursing facility, and examining the



influence of forces as diverse as pharmaceutical corporations, device manufacturers, and health insurance companies on their experience"--