Centers for Ending The Coming Crisis in the Care of Aged People /

• Main Author: Sarason, Seymour B. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2011.
• Series: Caregiving: Research, Practice, Policy
• Subjects: Medicine.; Geriatrics.; Social policy.; Aging.; Social work.; Health psychology.; Medicine & Public Health.; Geriatrics/Gerontology.; Health Psychology.; Medicine/Public Health, general.; Social Work.; Social Policy.

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...

Table of Contents:

• Series Foreword by Rosalynn Carter
• Foreword by Saul B. Cohen
• Themes of the Book
• Becoming a Resident in 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
• About the Author.