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Titolo: | Ethics, law, and aging review [[electronic resource] ] . Volume 11 Deinstitutionalizing long-term care : making legal strides, avoiding policy errors / / Marshall B. Kapp, editor |
Pubblicazione: | New York, NY, : Springer Publishing Company, Inc., c2005 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (137 p.) |
Disciplina: | 362.6 |
Soggetto topico: | Community health services - United States |
Long-term care of the sick - Government policy - United States | |
Long-term care of the sick - Law and legislation - United States | |
Older people - Legal status, laws, etc - United States | |
Older people - Medical care - Law and legislation - United States | |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
Altri autori: | KappMarshall B |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Contents; Contributors; Preface; Part I. Deinstitutionalizing Long-Term Care: Making Legal Strides, Avoiding Policy Errors; Chapter 1 Community-Based Alternatives for Older Adults With Serious Mental Illness: The Olmstead Decision and Deinstitutionalization of Nursing Homes; Chapter 2 Rebalancing State Long-Term Care Systems; Chapter 3 The Realpolitik of Deinstitutionalizing Long-Term Care: Olmstead Meets Reality; Chapter 4 Guilty of Mental Illness: What the ADA Says About the Use of Prisons as Long-Term-Care Facilities for People With Psychiatric Disabilities |
Chapter 5 When Consumer-Directed Alternatives to Nursing Homes Fail: Assigning Legal and Ethical Responsibility in Worst-Case Situations Chapter 6 The Ethics of Medicare Privatization; Part II. Independent Article; Chapter 7 Cross-Cultural Aspects of Geriatric Decision-Making Capacity; Book Reviews; Books Received; Index; | |
Sommario/riassunto: | We are now engaged in a movement that de-emphasizes the reliance on institutional forms of long-term care for disabled persons needing ongoing daily living assistance and converges on the use of non-institutional service providers and residential settings. In this latest edition of Ethics, Law and Aging Review , Kapp and ten expert contributors help us examine the forces and potential for changing the long-term care industry (both positively and negatively) and address this paradigm shift from the in personal, public psychiatric institutions of the 1960's and 1970's to the present-day assisted |
Titolo autorizzato: | Ethics, law, and aging review |
ISBN: | 1-281-80676-5 |
9786611806767 | |
0-8261-1653-1 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910453877203321 |
Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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