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The Paradox of Aging in Place in Assisted Living
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Jacquelyn Beth Frank
Book Code: H678
ISBN: 0-89789-678-5
ISBN-13: 978-0-89789-678-8
240 pages, Figures
Bergin & Garvey
Publication: 6/30/2002
List Price: $105.00 (UK Sterling Price: £59.95)
Availability: In Stock
Media Type: Hardcover
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
Subjects: Reviews:
  • Acknowledging the importance of the cultural meaning of home, Frank examines the complex, often conflicting, components associated with aging in place in assisted-living facilities....Frank challenges the philosophy and marketing of assisted living. A must-read for anyone interested in long-term care, housing, or gerontology. All collections.
    —Choice     February 2003
  • [T]he text has challenging arguments along with rich data which, used in training and in training and in debate around arrangements for senitive long term care, could enhance end-of-life practices and dispositions.
    —Ageing & Society, Volume 24     2004
Description: With the growing number of assisted living facilities opening across the United States, it is essential for scholars and practitioners to understand residents' experiences in these environments. The author examines the ideals versus the realities of assisted living and the aging in place/continuum of care debate surrounding assisted living. While the author presents the results of a detailed, comprehensive anthropological study, she also addresses policy issues which are of concern on the national level. The book combines academic and applied approaches to create an ethnographic fieldwork investigation relevant to housing and health care policies for the elderly in the United States.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • Home, Housing for the Elderly, and Anthropology: A Conceptual Framework
  • Home Is Where the Heart Is
  • The Nature of Assisted Living: Ideals versus Realities
  • Staff and Administrator's Views: The Ideal and the Real
  • The Resident's Reality
  • New Visions, Old Problems
  • Sitting Here in Limbo: Aging in Place in Assisted Living
  • Appendix I: The MEAP: Procedures and Challenges
  • Appendix II: The SCES Resident Questionnaire
  • References
  • Index
LC Card Number: 2001052791
LCC Class: HD7287
Dewey Class: 362
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