| Description |
xiii, 282 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Part I. Introduction -- Empowerment : Definitions, applications, problems, and prospects / Mary E. McCall, Leonard F. Heumann, Duncan P. Boldy -- Opportunities and impediments in housing, health, and support service delivery / Leonard F. Heumann, Duncan P. Boldy, Mary E. McCall -- Part II. Service providers and empowerment : Information, training, and coordination -- Promoting empowerment in residential aged care : Seeking the consumer view / Duncan P. Boldy and Linda E. Grenade -- Reimagining senior empowerment in service delivery : Creative applications in a global context / Mary E. McCall -- Retaining and expanding empowerment in the transition from a family to a community-oriented support system : Japan in the 21st century / Tokie Anme -- Empowerment in post-reform community care in England and Wales / Bleddyn Davies -- Part III. Environment and empowerment in conventional housing -- Another way of living in one's own home : The Salmon Group Projects / Robin Currie, Marie-Jo Guisset, Nick de Boer -- The role of the built environment in holistic delivery of home and community-based care services to frail elderly persons / Leonard F. Heumann -- When community planning becomes community building : Place-based activism and the creation of good places to grow old / Philip B. Stafford /-- Part IV. Client empowerment in long-term care -- The rights of elderly people in a nursing home -- A little creativity, a lot of respect, a taste for adventure, and an allergy to bureaucracy / Germain Harvey-Translated by James Lawler -- Bringing managed health care home : A new service strategy for people with chronic illnesses and disabilities / Dennis L. Kodner, Meg Sherlock, Jonathan Shankman -- Elderly persons with severe mental illness : Empowering a neglected and growing population / Paul H. Carmichael -- Older people with longstanding disabilities and their caregivers : Empowering a neglected and growing population / Lindsay Gething -- Part V. Overview and the future -- Empowerment in pathways through care : A cross national comparison of care delivery systems in Britain and Germany / Michaela Schunk -- Empowerment of frail elderly people and the vision of a self-actualized society / Duncan P. Boldy, Mary E. McCall, Leonard F. Heumann |
| Summary |
Annotation. A unique analysis of the obstacles to and possible solutions toward the empowerment of frail elderly persons |
| Analysis |
Frail elderly Services for United States |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages [255]-272. -- Includes index |
| Subject |
Frail elderly -- Services for -- United States.
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Frail Elderly.
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Aged.
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Health Services for the Aged.
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Housing for the Elderly.
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Long-Term Care.
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Patient Advocacy.
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| Author |
Boldy, Peter, 1941-
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Heumann, Leonard F
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McCall, Mary, 1960-
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| LC no. |
00025465 |
| ISBN |
0275966518 (alk. paper) |
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