Institutionalization and Alternative Futures
No one wants to put an aging relative in a "home." But very few people have an understanding of the issues involved and options available for an older person who needs outside care. This important book offers a variety of new insights into ways of maximizing choice, independence, and well-being, and minimizing the emotional stunting often associated with institutionalization. Both imaginative institutional programs and such alternatives as community maintenance are examined.
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Institutionalization and Alternative Futures
No one wants to put an aging relative in a "home." But very few people have an understanding of the issues involved and options available for an older person who needs outside care. This important book offers a variety of new insights into ways of maximizing choice, independence, and well-being, and minimizing the emotional stunting often associated with institutionalization. Both imaginative institutional programs and such alternatives as community maintenance are examined.
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Institutionalization and Alternative Futures

Institutionalization and Alternative Futures

by Jon Hendricks
Institutionalization and Alternative Futures

Institutionalization and Alternative Futures

by Jon Hendricks

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No one wants to put an aging relative in a "home." But very few people have an understanding of the issues involved and options available for an older person who needs outside care. This important book offers a variety of new insights into ways of maximizing choice, independence, and well-being, and minimizing the emotional stunting often associated with institutionalization. Both imaginative institutional programs and such alternatives as community maintenance are examined.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780895030160
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 06/15/1980
Series: Perspectives on Aging and Human Development Series
Pages: 160
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

PART ONE - MAINTENANCE IN THE COMMUNITY, PART TWO - ETHNOGRAPHIC ACCOUNTS: ENHANCING THE QUALITY OF LIFE, PART THREE - INSTITUTIONAL DILEMMAS
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