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100 1 _aSarason, Seymour B.
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aCenters for Ending
_h[electronic resource] :
_bThe Coming Crisis in the Care of Aged People /
_cby Seymour B. Sarason.
264 1 _aNew York, NY :
_bSpringer New York,
_c2011.
300 _aXI, 109p.
_bonline resource.
336 _atext
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338 _aonline resource
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490 1 _aCaregiving: Research, Practice, Policy
505 0 _aSeries Foreword by Rosalynn Carter -- Foreword by Saul B. Cohen -- Themes of the Book -- Becoming a Resident in a Total Care Facility -- Residents as Immigrants -- Some Aspects of Organizational Craziness -- Two Months in the Nursing Home -- Planning Programs: Social Security and Head Start -- The Haves and the Have Nots -- The Need for a Presidential Commission: Some Caveats -- On the Uses of History -- Epilogue -- References -- About the Author.
520 _aAs people live longer and health care costs continue to rise and fewer doctors choose to specialize in geriatrics, how prepared is the United States to care for its sick and elderly? According to veteran psychologist Seymour Sarason’s eloquent and compelling new book, the answer is: inadequately at best. And rarely discussed among the grim statistics is the psychosocial price paid by nursing home patients, from loneliness and isolation to depression and dependency. In Centers for Ending, Dr. Sarason uses his firsthand experience as both practitioner and patient in senior facilities to reveal wide-ranging professional and moral issues affecting this seemingly familiar terrain. Insensitive medical personnel, poorly trained nurses and aides, indifferent administrators, and a prevailing culture content with treating “bodies” instead of human beings are identified as contributing factors. Drawing on America’s rich history of large-scale solutions to social problems, Dr. Sarason offers penetrating insights and bold suggestions in such areas as: The widening care gap between haves and have-nots. Why professional caregivers fail to understand patients. The nursing home resident as immigrant. Why previous reform efforts have not worked. The need for a Presidential commission for the elderly. The scenario if conditions are allowed to remain as they are or worsen. This concise volume is essential reading for researchers, graduate students, professionals, practitioners, and policy makers across such fields as geriatric medicine, health psychology, social work, public health, and public policy.  Centers for Ending is a clarion call to be ignored at great cost to our elders and ourselves.
650 0 _aMedicine.
650 0 _aGeriatrics.
650 0 _aSocial policy.
650 0 _aAging
_xResearch.
650 0 _aSocial work.
650 0 _aPsychology, clinical.
650 1 4 _aMedicine & Public Health.
650 2 4 _aGeriatrics/Gerontology.
650 2 4 _aAging.
650 2 4 _aHealth Psychology.
650 2 4 _aMedicine/Public Health, general.
650 2 4 _aSocial Work.
650 2 4 _aSocial Policy.
710 2 _aSpringerLink (Online service)
773 0 _tSpringer eBooks
776 0 8 _iPrinted edition:
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830 0 _aCaregiving: Research, Practice, Policy
856 4 0 _uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-5725-2
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