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Sick to death and not going to take it anymore! [[electronic resource] ] : reforming health care for the last years of life / / Joanne Lynn



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Autore: Lynn Joanne <1951-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Sick to death and not going to take it anymore! [[electronic resource] ] : reforming health care for the last years of life / / Joanne Lynn Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Berkeley, Calif., : University of California Press, 2004
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (219 p.)
Disciplina: 362.198/97/00973
Soggetto topico: Older people - Medical care - United States
Older people - Long-term care - United States
Chronically ill - Medical care - United States
Terminal care - United States
Health care reform - United States
Soggetto non controllato: advance care planning
aging
alzheimers
american hospital association
at home care
baby boomers
caregivers
chronic illness
degenerative disease
dementia
disability
disease
gerontology
health and wellness
health care delivery
health care reform
health care
health policy
hospice
hospitals
illness
life span
long term care
medicine
modern health care
nonfiction
nursing home
palliative care
progressive illness
retirement home
seniors
terminal care
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Just the facts: serious chronic disease in the last phase of life -- Seeing the world differently: ideas to shape reform -- Good care for some people, sometimes -- Surveying the terrain: opportunities and challenges -- Good care for us all: building the care system to count on.
Sommario/riassunto: Just a few generations ago, serious illness, like hazardous weather, arrived with little warning, and people either lived through it or died. In this important, convincing, and long-overdue call for health care reform, Joanne Lynn demonstrates that our current health system, like our concepts of health and disease, developed at a time when life was mostly short, serious illnesses and disabilities were common at every age, and dying was quick. Today, most Americans live a long life, with the disabilities and discomforts of progressive chronic illness appearing only during the final chapters of their life stories. Sick to Death and Not Going to Take It Anymore! maintains that health care and community services are not set up to meet the needs of the large number of people who face a prolonged period of progressive illness and disability before death. Lynn offers what she calls an "owner's manual for the health care system," which lays out facts, concepts, strategies, and action plans for genuine reform and gives the reader new ways to interpret information creatively, imagine innovative possibilities, and take steps to implement them.
Titolo autorizzato: Sick to death and not going to take it anymore  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-520-93142-4
1-4175-4079-6
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910782920703321
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Serie: California/Milbank books on health and the public ; ; 10.