TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lella,Joseph W.
AU  - Bayne,J.R.
AU  - Csank,J.Z.
AU  - McKay,J.
TI  - The Perils of Patient Government: Professionals and Patients in a Chronic-Care Hospital
SN  - 9780889207349
AV  - RA997 
U1  - 362.1/6362.16 
PY  - 2006///
CY  - Waterloo
PB  - Wilfrid Laurier University Press
KW  - Chronic diseases
KW  - Chronically ill
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Long-term care of the sick
KW  - Canada
KW  - Long-term care facilities
KW  - Administration
KW  - Sociological aspects
KW  - Medical personnel and patient
KW  - Nursing homes
KW  - Professional-Patient Relations
KW  - Veterans
KW  - Medical care
KW  - Health
KW  - Social sciences
KW  - Chronic Disease
KW  - Social Sciences
KW  - Maladies chroniques
KW  - Soins de longue durée
KW  - Établissements de soins de longue durée
KW  - Relations personnel médical-patient
KW  - Établissements de soins, de cure, etc
KW  - Anciens combattants
KW  - Soins médicaux
KW  - Santé
KW  - Sciences sociales
KW  - health
KW  - aat
KW  - social sciences
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE
KW  - Public Policy
KW  - Social Security
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Social Services & Welfare
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Contents; List of Tables and Figures; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I: Before Patient Government; Part Ii: Achieving Patient Government; Part Iii: A Modest Success; Appendices: Theory And Method; References; Index
N2  - In 1964 the Senate Committee on Aging reported that "once admitted to an institution ... the veteran begins ... to show signs of social and physical degeneration," a phenomenon that has not escapted the attention of clinicians, social scientists, veterans, and other chronic-care patients. Assuming that social withdrawal in the institutional setting was avoidable and that a strictly medical model of chronic care was inappropriate, Lella and his collaborators established a patient-government project designed to give thirty elderly men in a large veterans' hospital, who suffered from various de
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