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Autore: | Lella Joseph W. <1936-> |
Titolo: | The perils of patient government : professionals and patients in a chronic-care hospital / / Joseph W. Lella, with J.Z. Csank, J. McKay, and J.R. Bayne |
Pubblicazione: | Waterloo, Ont., Canada, : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, c1986 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (249 p.) |
Disciplina: | 362.1/6 |
362.16 | |
Soggetto topico: | Long-term care facilities - Sociological aspects |
Chronically ill - Social conditions | |
Medical personnel and patient | |
Long-term care facilities - Administration | |
Veterans - Medical care | |
Note generali: | Includes index. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliography and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Contents; List of Tables and Figures; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART I: BEFORE PATIENT GOVERNMENT; PART II: ACHIEVING PATIENT GOVERNMENT; PART III: A MODEST SUCCESS; APPENDICES: THEORY AND METHOD; References; Index |
Sommario/riassunto: | In 1964 the Senate Committee on Aging reported that ""once admitted to an institution ... the veteran begins ... to show signs of social and physical degeneration,"" a phenomenon that has not escapted the attention of clinicians, social scientists, veterans, and other chronic-care patients. Assuming that social withdrawal in the institutional setting was avoidable ad that a strictly medical model of chronic care was inappropriate, Lella and his collaborators established a patient-government project designed to give thirty elderly men in a large veterans' hospital, who suffered fro |
Titolo autorizzato: | The Perils of Patient Government |
ISBN: | 1-282-16710-3 |
9786613810175 | |
0-88920-734-8 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910154756903321 |
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