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Sick to death and not going to take it anymore! : reforming health care for the last years of life / Joanne Lynn.
De Gruyter University of California Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lynn, Joanne, 1951-
- Series:
- California/Milbank books on health and the public ; 10.
- California/Milbank books on health and the public ; 10
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Older people--Medical care--United States.
- Older people.
- Older people--Long-term care--United States.
- Chronically ill--Medical care--United States.
- Chronically ill.
- Terminal care--United States.
- Terminal care.
- Health care reform--United States.
- Health care reform.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (219 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, 2004.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Just a few generations ago, serious illness, like hazardous weather, arrived with little warning, and people either lived through it or died. In this important, convincing, and long-overdue call for health care reform, Joanne Lynn demonstrates that our current health system, like our concepts of health and disease, developed at a time when life was mostly short, serious illnesses and disabilities were common at every age, and dying was quick. Today, most Americans live a long life, with the disabilities and discomforts of progressive chronic illness appearing only during the final chapters of their life stories. Sick to Death and Not Going to Take It Anymore! maintains that health care and community services are not set up to meet the needs of the large number of people who face a prolonged period of progressive illness and disability before death. Lynn offers what she calls an "owner's manual for the health care system," which lays out facts, concepts, strategies, and action plans for genuine reform and gives the reader new ways to interpret information creatively, imagine innovative possibilities, and take steps to implement them.
- Contents:
- Just the facts: serious chronic disease in the last phase of life
- Seeing the world differently: ideas to shape reform
- Good care for some people, sometimes
- Surveying the terrain: opportunities and challenges
- Good care for us all: building the care system to count on.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780520931428
- 0520931424
- 9781417540792
- 1417540796
- OCLC:
- 56607531
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