书目名称 | Centers for Ending | 副标题 | The Coming Crisis in | 编辑 | Seymour B. Sarason | 视频video | http://file.papertrans.cn/224/223145/223145.mp4 | 概述 | Offers a critical review and analysis of elder care policies and practices in the United States.Provides first-person insights into the experience of living in a long-term nursing care facility.Humani | 丛书名称 | Caregiving: Research • Practice • Policy | 图书封面 |  | 描述 | .As people live longer and health care costs continue to rise and fewer doctors choose to specialize in geriatrics, how prepared is the United States to care for its sick and elderly? According to veteran psychologist Seymour Sarason’s eloquent and compelling new book, the answer is: inadequately at best. And rarely discussed among the grim statistics is the psychosocial price paid by nursing home patients, from loneliness and isolation to depression and dependency..In .Centers for Ending., Dr. Sarason uses his firsthand experience as both practitioner and patient in senior facilities to reveal wide-ranging professional and moral issues affecting this seemingly familiar terrain. Insensitive medical personnel, poorly trained nurses and aides, indifferent administrators, and a prevailing culture content with treating “bodies” instead of human beings are identified as contributing factors. Drawing on America’s rich history of large-scale solutions to social problems, Dr. Sarason offers penetrating insights and bold suggestions in such areas as:.The widening care gap between haves and have-nots..Why professional caregivers fail to understand patients..The nursing home resident as immig | 出版日期 | Book 2011 | 关键词 | Aged-related disability; Aging; Caregiving; Elder care; End of life; Gerontological psychology; Gerontolog | 版次 | 1 | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-5725-2 | isbn_softcover | 978-1-4419-5724-5 | isbn_ebook | 978-1-4419-5725-2Series ISSN 2192-340X Series E-ISSN 2192-3418 | issn_series | 2192-340X | copyright | Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2011 |
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