Dignity in care for older people
By: edited by Lennart Nordenfelt.
Contributors: Nordenfelt, Lennart, 1945-
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell; Wiley-Interscience
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Chichester, West Sussex; Ames, Iowa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9781405183420
Subjects: Aged -- Medical care; Dignity; Quality of life; Geriatrics -- ethics; Health Services for the Aged -- ethics; Aged -- psychology; Personal Autonomy; Quality of Life
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Health, autonomy, and quality of life : some basic concepts in the theory of health care and the care of the elderly / Lennart Nordenfelt; title: The concept of dignity / Lennart Nordenfelt; title: Being body : the dignity of human embodiment / Jennifer Bullington; title: Dignity and dementia : an analysis of dignity of identity and dignity work in a group dwelling / Magnus Öhlander; title: Dignity and elderly spouses with dementia / Ingrid Hellström; title: Decent care for older people : why dignity matters : the European experience / Win Tadd and Michael Calnan; title: A dignified death and identity-promoting care / Britt-Marie Ternestedt; title: Dignity and the dead / Göran Lantz; title: Dignity as an object of empirical study : experiences from two research programmes / Lennart Nordenfelt.