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

• Autore: Lynn Joanne <1951->
• 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
• ISBN: 0-520-93142-4; 1-4175-4079-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910782920703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: California/Milbank books on health and the public ; ; 10.