| Description |
xiii, 251 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: Part I. What's the Problem?: 1. The issues -- 2. The Australian policy response -- Part II. What's the Practice?: 3. De-institutionalisation and the aged care reform strategy -- 4. The feminisation of ageing -- 5. Regulating the quality of care -- 6. Implementing user rights strategies -- Part III. Reconceptualising Problems, Reorienting Solutions: 7. The 'problem of old women' redefined -- 8. The Gordian knot: Defining outcomes -- 9. Whose rights? Whose responsibility? -- 10. The problem of dependency: Construction and reconstruction -- 11. New problems, old solutions |
| Summary |
In Aged Care Diane Gibson synthesizes a wide range of material to provide a broad overview of issues and the policy responses worldwide. She then probes the issues in more depth with special reference to Australia, a country typical of most of the developed world in the problems it faces, and a world leader in the solutions it has crafted for many of them. Finally Dr. Gibson engages the issues at a more conceptual level, examining both their theoretical implications and practical consequences |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 226-241) and index |
| Subject |
Older people -- Care -- Standards -- Australia.
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Older people -- Care -- Australia.
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Older people -- Australia -- Social conditions.
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Older people -- Care -- Government policy -- Australia.
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Older people -- Care -- Government policy.
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Aged.
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Aged, 80 and over.
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Quality Assurance, Health Care.
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| SUBJECT |
Australia. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D001315 |
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Australia. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D001315 |
| LC no. |
97023196 |
| ISBN |
0521550688 |
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052155957X (paperback) |
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