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Empowering frail elderly people : opportunities and impediments in housing, health, and support service delivery / edited by Leonard F. Heumann, Mary E. McCall, and Duncan P. Boldy.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Frail older people--Services for--United States.
- Frail older people.
- Frail older people--Services for.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 282 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2001.
- Summary:
- A unique analysis of the obstacles to and possible solutions toward the empowerment of frail elderly persons.
- Contents:
- 1 Empowerment: Definitions, Applications, Problems, and Prospects / Mary E. McCall, Leonard F. Heumann, Duncan P. Boldy 3
- 2 Opportunities and Impediments in Housing, Health, and Support Service Delivery / Leonard F. Heumann, Duncan P. Boldy, Mary E. McCall 25
- Part II. Service Providers and Empowerment: Information, Training, and Coordination
- 3 Promoting Empowerment in Residential Aged Care: Seeking the Consumer View / Duncan P. Boldy, Linda E. Grenade 41
- 4 Reimagining Senior Empowerment in Service Delivery: Creative Applications in a Global Context / Mary E. McCall 53
- 5 Retaining and Expanding Empowerment in the Transition from a Family to a Community-Oriented Support System: Japan in the 21st Century / Tokie Anme 65
- 6 Empowerment in Post-Reform Community Care in England and Wales / Bleddyn Davies 81
- Part III. Environment and Empowerment in Conventional Housing
- 7 Another Way of Living in One's Own Home: The Salmon Group Projects / Robin Currie, Marie-Jo Guisset, Niek de Boer 101
- 8 The Role of the Built Environment in Holistic Delivery of Home- and Community-Based Care Services to Frail Elderly Persons / Leonard F. Heumann 119
- 9 When Community Planning Becomes Community Building: Place-Based Activism and the Creation of Good Places to Grow Old / Philip B. Stafford 137
- Part IV. Client Empowerment in Long-Term Care
- 10 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 155
- 11 Bringing Managed Health Care Home: A New Service Strategy for People with Chronic Illnesses and Disabilities / Dennis L. Kodner, Meg Sherlock, Jonathan Shankman 175
- 12 Elderly Persons with Severe Mental Illness: Empowering a Neglected and Growing Population / Paul H. Carmichael 191
- 13 Older People with Longstanding Disabilities and Their Caregivers: Empowering a Neglected and Growing Population / Lindsay Gething 205
- 14 Empowerment in Pathways Through Care: A Cross-National Comparison of Care Delivery Systems in Britain and Germany / Michaela Schunk 223
- 15 Empowerment of Frail Elderly People and the Vision of a Self-Actualized Society / Duncan P. Boldy, Mary E. McCall, Leonard F. Heumann 239.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [255]-272) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0275966518
- OCLC:
- 43562116
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