Centers for ending: the coming crisis in the care of aged people

Centers for Ending examines the challenges that the United States faces as its population ages in the coming years. This concise volume combines a criticalreview and analysis of health care policies and practices with the reflections of one currently living in and experiencing personally the issues of which he speaks. Centers for Ending provides readers with the unique opportunity to examine possible challenges confronting the nation given its impending surge indemand for facilities and personnel care for the elderly. Dr. Sarason uses his personal experience in an extended care facility to depict several of these challenges, including inadequacy in the number of nursing facilities, in general, and affordable facilities, specifically; in the training and supervision of the paraprofessionals primarily responsible for the delivery of care; and inthe sensitivity of the medical professionals responsible for prescribing and monitoring care. Using his status as a resident as well as a patient in an expensive, reportedly high-quality facility, Dr. Sarason makes explicit the risksthat the nation’s citizens, elderly as well as their families, face unless significant changes occur in this aspect of the nation’s health care system. What comes through most clearly is the extent to which those delivering care losesight of the fact that people rather than symptoms and diagnoses are the recipients of those services. Dr. Sarason’s poignant descriptions of unintended albeit hurtful interactions between providers and recipients will sensitize readers to examine carefully the nursing care options available for themselves or their loved ones. In many respects, this volume provides the nation and its citizens with a valuable peek into their futures. “Offers a critical review and analysis of elder care policies and practices in the United States Provides first-person insights into the experience of living in a long-term nursing care facility Humanizes issues surrounding elder care to ensure that individuals and their caregivers, both professional and family, are able to understand key concepts Examines challenges the nation must confront with the impending surge in the demand for end-of-life care facilities INDICE: Acknowledgments.-Foreword.-Themes of the Book.-Becoming a Residentin 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

• ISBN: 978-1-4419-5724-5
• Editorial: Springer
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 150
• Fecha Publicación: 01/05/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés