Centers for Ending: The Coming Crisis in the Care of Aged People Paperback / softback - 2011 - 2011th Edition
by Seymour B. Sarason
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- Title Centers for Ending: The Coming Crisis in the Care of Aged People
- Author Seymour B. Sarason
- Binding Paperback / softback
- Edition number 2011th
- Edition 2011
- Condition New
- Pages 109
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Springer, New York, NY
- Date 2011-08-04
- Features Bibliography, Index
- Bookseller's Inventory # B9781441957245
- ISBN 9781441957245 / 1441957243
- Weight 0.41 lbs (0.19 kg)
- Dimensions 9.21 x 6.14 x 0.26 in (23.39 x 15.60 x 0.66 cm)
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Themes
- Generational Orientation: Elderly/Aged
- Library of Congress subjects Health Policy - United States, Older people - Care
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2011930251
- Dewey Decimal Code 305.26
From the rear cover
As 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.