The Perils of Patient Government : Professionals and Patients in a Chronic-Care Hospital.
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TextPublication details: Waterloo : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2006.Description: 1 online resource (249 pages)Content type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780889207349
- 0889207348
- Chronic diseases
- Chronically ill -- Social conditions
- Long-term care of the sick -- Canada
- Long-term care facilities -- Administration
- Long-term care facilities -- Sociological aspects
- Medical personnel and patient
- Nursing homes -- Canada -- Administration
- Professional-Patient Relations
- Veterans -- Medical care
- Health
- Social sciences
- Chronic Disease
- Professional-Patient Relations
- Health
- Social Sciences
- Maladies chroniques
- Soins de longue durée -- Canada
- Établissements de soins de longue durée -- Administration
- Relations personnel médical-patient
- Établissements de soins, de cure, etc. -- Canada -- Administration
- Anciens combattants -- Soins médicaux
- Santé
- Sciences sociales
- health
- social sciences
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Security
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare
- Chronic diseases
- Chronically ill -- Social conditions
- Health
- Long-term care facilities -- Administration
- Long-term care facilities -- Sociological aspects
- Long-term care of the sick
- Medical personnel and patient
- Nursing homes -- Administration
- Social sciences
- Veterans -- Medical care
- Canada
- 362.1/6 362.16
- RA997
- RA997 .L45 2006
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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.
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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