Title: No Place Like Home
Description: "No Place Like Home sets out to determine why home care, a preferred, rational, and cost-effective alternative to institutional care, remains a marginalized experiment in care giving.

Nurse-historian Karen Buhler-Wilkerson traces the history of home care from its nineteenth-century origins in organized visiting nurses' associations, through a time when professional home care nearly disappeared, on to the 1960s, when a new wave of home care gathered force as physicians, hospital managers, and policy makers responded to economic mandates.".

"Karen Buhler-Wilkerson is a professor of community health and director of the Center for the Study of the History of Nursing at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: History, Home nursing, Home Care Services, Community Health Nursing, Soins infirmiers à domicile, Histoire, MEDICAL, Nursing, Home & Community Care, Nursing Home Care, Home Care, Hauspflege, Sozialarbeit