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Empowering frail elderly people : opportunities and impediments in housing, health, and support service delivery /
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.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Westport, CT :
Praeger,
2001.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Part I. Introduction
- Empowerment : Definitions, applications, problems, and prospects / Mary E. McCall, Leonard F. Heumann, Duncan P. Boldy
- Opportunities and impediments in housing, health, and support service delivery / Leonard F. Heumann, Duncan P. Boldy, Mary E. McCall
- Part II. Service providers and empowerment : Information, training, and coordination
- Promoting empowerment in residential aged care : Seeking the consumer view / Duncan P. Boldy and Linda E. Grenade
- Reimagining senior empowerment in service delivery : Creative applications in a global context / Mary E. McCall
- Retaining and expanding empowerment in the transition from a family to a community-oriented support system : Japan in the 21st century / Tokie Anme
- Empowerment in post-reform community care in England and Wales / Bleddyn Davies
- Part III. Environment and empowerment in conventional housing
- Another way of living in one's own home : The Salmon Group Projects / Robin Currie, Marie-Jo Guisset, Nick de Boer
- The role of the built environment in holistic delivery of home and community-based care services to frail elderly persons / Leonard F. Heumann
- When community planning becomes community building : Place-based activism and the creation of good places to grow old / Philip B. Stafford /
- Part IV. Client empowerment in long-term care
- 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
- Bringing managed health care home : A new service strategy for people with chronic illnesses and disabilities / Dennis L. Kodner, Meg Sherlock, Jonathan Shankman
- Elderly persons with severe mental illness : Empowering a neglected and growing population / Paul H. Carmichael
- Older people with longstanding disabilities and their caregivers : Empowering a neglected and growing population / Lindsay Gething
- Part V. Overview and the future
- Empowerment in pathways through care : A cross national comparison of care delivery systems in Britain and Germany / Michaela Schunk
- Empowerment of frail elderly people and the vision of a self-actualized society / Duncan P. Boldy, Mary E. McCall, Leonard F. Heumann.