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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.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (296 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Distribution:
- London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2024
- Place of Publication:
- Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2001.
- Language Note:
- English
- 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.
- Contents:
- Preliminaries; Contents; Preface; 1 Empowerment; 2 Opportunities and Impediments in Housing Health and Support Service Delivery; 3 Promoting Empowerment in Residential Aged Care; 4 Reimagining Senior Empowerment in Service Delivery Creative Applications in a Global Context; 5 Retaining and Expanding Empowerment in the Transition from a Family to a Community-Oriented Support System; 6 Empowerment in Post Reform Community Care in England and Wales; 7 Another Way of Living in One's Own Home
- 8 The Role of the Built Environment in Holistic Delivery of Home and Community Based Care Services to Frail Elderly Persons9 When Community Planning Becomes Community Building Place Based Activism and the Creation of Good Places to Grow Old; 10 The Rights of Elderly People in a Nursing Home; 11 Bringing Managed Health Care Home A New Service Strategy for People with Chronic Illnesses and Disabilities; 12 Elderly Persons with Severe Mental Illness Empowering a Neglected and Growing Population
- 13 Older People with Longstanding Disabilities and Their Caregivers Empowering a Neglected and Growing Population14 Empowerment in Pathways Through Care; 15 Empowerment of Frail Elderly People and the Vision of a Self Actualized Society; References; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-272) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9798400645389
- 9780313002564
- 0313002568
- OCLC:
- 55141656
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