Duncan P. Boldy, Leonard F. Heumann, Mary McCall

Empowering Frail Elderly People (eBook, PDF)

Opportunities and Impediments in Housing, Health, and Support Service Delivery

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book provides a unique analysis of provider-, environment-, client-, and societal-based obstacles to the empowerment of frail elderly persons in a philosophical framework of social values, as well as an applied framework wherein a variety of international case studies by a distinguished board of contributors provide concrete examples of the feasibility of achieving real empowerment. Empowerment means different things to different people in the context of housing, health, and social service delivery. This book analyzes the various definitions of the concept and practice of the empowerment of frail older persons and then discusses the definitions in a philosophical framework of social values regarding aging and the older person.

Each chapter demonstrates the feasibility of achieving increased empowerment of older persons, even those with severe physical or mental disability. True empowerment of older persons in every country requires time, energy, money, and commitment to the goal. This book will be of interest to academic as well as professional audiences in areas of Gerontology, Psychology, Sociology, and Family Studies. Caregivers and policymakers will also find this analysis useful.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Altersempfehlung: ab 7 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2000
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780313002564
• Artikelnr.: 68528882

Autorenporträt

LEONARD F. HEUMANN is Professor of Urban and Regional Planning, the Building Research Council Housing Research Development, and Psychology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign./e MARY E. McCALL is Professor of Psychology at St. Mary's College in Moraga, California./e DUNCAN P. BOLDY is Professor and Head of the Department of Health Policy and Management at Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Western Australia.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Empowerment: Definitions, Applications, Problems and Prospects
by Mary E. McCall, Leonard F. Heumann, and Duncan P. Boldy Opportunities
and Impediments in Housing, Health and Support Service Delivery by Leonard
F. Heumann, Duncan P. Boldy and Mary E. McCall Service Providers and
Empowerment: Information, Training and Coordination Promoting Empowerment
in Residential Aged care: Seeking the Consumer View by Duncan P. Boldy and
Linda E. Grenade Reimagining Senior Empowerment in Service Delivery:
Creative Applications in a Global Context by Mary E. McCall Retaining and
Expanding Empowerment in the Transition to a Community-Oriented Support
System: Japan in the 21st Century by Tokie Anme Empowerment in Post-Reform
Community Care in England and Wales by Bleddyn Davies Environment and
Empowerment in Conventional Housing Another Way of Living in One's Own
Home: The Salmon Group Projects by Robin Currie, Marie-Jo Guisset, and Niek
de Boer The Role of the Built Environment in Holistic Delivery of Home and
Community Based Care Services to Frail Elderly Persons by Leonard F.
Heumann When Community Planning Becomes Community Building: Place-Based
Activism and the Creation of Good Places to Grow Old by Philip B. Stafford
Client Empowerment in Long-Term Care The Rights of Elderly People in a
Nursing Home--A Little Creativity, a Lot of Respect, a Taste for Adventure
and an Allergy to Burearcracy by Germain Harvey Bringing Managed Health
Care Home: A New Service Strategy for People with Chronic Illnesses and
Disabilities by Dennis L. Kodner, Meg Sherlock, and Jonathan Shankman
Elderly Persons with Severe Mental Illness: Empowering a Neglected and
Growing Population by Paul H. Carmichael Older People with Long Standing
Disabilities and their Caregivers: Empowering a Neglected and Growing
Population by Lindsay Gething Overview and the Future Empowerment in
Pathways Through Care: A Cross-National Comparison of Care Delivery Systems
in Britain and Germany by Michaela Schunk Empowerment of Frail Elderly
People and the Vision of a Self-Actualized Society by Duncan P. Boldy, May
E. McCall, and Leonard F. Heumann