Title: Centers for ending : the coming crisis in the care of aged people /
Authors: Sarason, Seymour Bernard, 1919-2010.
Publisher: Springer,
Year: 2011
Subjects: Social service; Nursing Homes; Long-Term Care; Health Policy; Aged psychology; Health Services for the Aged; Older people Care United States.; Older people Medical care United States.; Older people Home care United States.; Caregivers United States; Long-term care facilities.; Older people Care.; Aging Research.; Geriatrics.; Medicine; Psychology, clinical.; Social policy; United States; United States
Abstract: 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 best. And rarely discussed among the grim statistics is the psychosocial price paid by nursing home patients, from loneliness and isolation to depression and dependency. In "Centers for Ending", Dr. Sarason uses his firsthand experience as both practitioner and patient in senior facilities.
Contents: 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.