The Perils of Patient Government :: Professionals and Patients in a Chronic-Care Hospital.

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....

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1. Verfasser: Lella, Joseph W., 1936-
Weitere Verfasser: Bayne, J. R., Csank, J. Z., McKay, J.
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Waterloo : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2006.
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Zusammenfassung: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 and 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 from various de.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (249 pages)
ISBN:9780889207349
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