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
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| Autore: |
Lella Joseph W. <1936->
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| 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
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| 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: | 9786613810175 |
| 9781282167100 | |
| 1282167103 | |
| 9780889207349 | |
| 0889207348 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910154756903321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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