Title: Unloving care : the nursing home tragedy /
Authors: Vladeck, Bruce C.; Twentieth Century Fund
Publisher: Basic Books,
Year: 1980
Subjects: Public Policy; Nursing Homes organization & administration; Medical policy United States; Nursing home care United States.; Nursing homes United States; Nursing Homes organization & administration United States.; Public Policy United States.; United States
Abstract: A leading public-health expert brings to light the shocking conditions in America's nursing homes today and pinpoints the tragic mistakes in public policy that have contributed toward producing these conditions.
Contents: Introduction -- No place like home -- Nursing homes and public policy- a history -- Paying the piper -- Building capacity -- Game of levels -- Quality of mercy -- Robbers and cops -- Art of the possible -- Doing better -- Not in our stars.