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1 online resource (xiii, 282 pages) : illustrations |
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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 |
An analysis of provider-, environment-, client- and societal-based obstacles to the empowerment of frail elderly persons in a philosophical framework of social values. It features international case studies which provide examples of the feasibility of achieving real empowerment |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-272) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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| Subject |
Frail older people -- Services for -- United States
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Frail older people
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Long-term care of the sick.
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Older people.
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Older people -- Housing.
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Older people -- Dwellings.
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Patient advocacy.
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Patients -- Civil rights.
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Frail Elderly
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Aged, 80 and over
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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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Aged
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housing for the elderly.
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elderly.
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FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS -- Abuse -- Elder Abuse.
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FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS -- Eldercare.
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Patients -- Civil rights
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Patient advocacy
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Older people -- Housing
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Older people -- Dwellings
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Older people
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Long-term care of the sick
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Frail older people
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Frail older people -- Services for
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United States
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Heumann, Leonard.
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McCall, Mary E., 1960-
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Boldy, Duncan
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| LC no. |
00025465 |
| ISBN |
0313002568 |
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9780313002564 |
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9780275966515 |
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0275966518 |
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