Empowering Frail Elderly People
Subtitle: Opportunities and Impediments in Housing, Health, and Support Service Delivery
Contributors: Leonard F. Heumann (Editor); Mary E. McCall (Editor); Duncan P. Boldy (Editor)
Publisher: Praeger Publishers; Praeger
Published: November 30, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780275966515
Subjects: Care of the elderly; Elderly; Geriatric medicine; Services For The Aged; Social Science; Politics / Current Events; Sociology; General; Gerontology; Public Policy - Social Services & Welfare; Social Science / Gerontology; Human Services; Frail elderly; Services for; United States
First sentence: In a mountainous region of southern Appalachia in the United States, an impoverished 75-year-old man, who is functionally deaf but lip-reads proficiently, proudly displays his new walker.