Nursing home care in the United States
Subtitle: failure in public policy : supporting paper[s]
By: prepared by the Subcommittee on Long-Term Care of the Special Committee on Aging, United States Senate.
Publisher: U. S. Govt. Print. Off.
Published: 1974
Place of publication: Washington
Language: eng
Subjects: Nursing home care -- United States.; Nursing homes -- United States.; Older people -- Medical care -- United States.
Notes: Reports of 93d Congress, 2d session-94th Congress, 2d session, Senate.

At head of title: Committee print.

Supporting papers nos. 4-5 issued as report nos. 94-00.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: value: no.1. The litany of nursing home abuses and an examination of the roots of controversy; value: no.2. Drugs in nursing homes : misuse, high costs, and kickbacks.; value: no.3. Doctors in nursing homes : the shunned responsibility.; value: no.4. Nurses in nursing homes : the heavy burden (the reliance on untrained and unlicensed personnel).; value: no.5. The continuing chronicle of nursing home fires.; value: no.6. What can be done in nursing homes : positive aspects in long-term care.; value: no.7. The role of nursing homes in caring for discharged mental patients (and the birth of a for-profit boarding home industry).; value: no.8. Access to nursing homes by U. S. minorities.; value: no.9. Profits in the nursing home : incentives in favor of poor care.