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The perils of patient government : professionals and patients in a chronic-care hospital / Joseph W. Lella, with J.Z. Csank, J. McKay, and J.R. Bayne.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lella, Joseph W., 1936-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Long-term care facilities--Sociological aspects.
- Long-term care facilities.
- Chronically ill--Social conditions.
- Chronically ill.
- Medical personnel and patient.
- Long-term care facilities--Administration.
- Veterans--Medical care.
- Veterans.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (249 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Patient government.
- Place of Publication:
- Waterloo, Ont., Canada : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, c1986.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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 ad 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 fro
- Contents:
- Contents; List of Tables and Figures; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART I: BEFORE PATIENT GOVERNMENT; PART II: ACHIEVING PATIENT GOVERNMENT; PART III: A MODEST SUCCESS; APPENDICES: THEORY AND METHOD; References; Index
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Includes bibliography and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9786613810175
- 9781282167100
- 1282167103
- 9780889207349
- 0889207348
- OCLC:
- 243564182
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