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1 online resource (249 pages) |
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Contents; List of Tables and Figures; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I: Before Patient Government; Part Ii: Achieving Patient Government; Part Iii: A Modest Success; Appendices: Theory And Method; References; Index. |
| Summary |
In 1964 the Senate Committee on Aging reported that "once admitted to an institution ... the veteran begins ... to show signs of social and physical degeneration," a phenomenon that has not escapted the attention of clinicians, social scientists, veterans, and other chronic-care patients. Assuming that social withdrawal in the institutional setting was avoidable ad that a strictly medical model of chronic care was inappropriate, Lella and his collaborators established a patient-government project designed to give thirty elderly men in a large veterans' hospital, who suffered from various de. |
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Chronic diseases.
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Chronic diseases. |
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Chronically ill -- Social conditions.
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Chronically ill -- Social conditions. |
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Long-term care of the sick -- Canada -- Organization and administration.
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Long-term care of the sick. |
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Canada. |
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Long-term care facilities -- Administration.
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Long-term care facilities -- Administration. |
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Long-term care facilities -- Sociological aspects. |
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Long-term care facilities. |
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Medical personnel and patient.
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Medical personnel and patient. |
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Nursing homes -- Canada -- Organization and administration.
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Nursing homes. |
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Long-term care facilities -- Sociological aspects.
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Professional-Patient Relations.
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Veterans -- Medical care.
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Veterans -- Medical care. |
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Health.
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Health. |
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Social sciences.
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Social sciences. |
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Electronic books.
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Bayne, J. R.
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Csank, J. Z.
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McKay, J.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Lella, Joseph W. Perils of Patient Government : Professionals and Patients in a Chronic-Care Hospital. Waterloo : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, ©2006 9780889201972 |
| ISBN |
9780889207349 (electronic book) |
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0889207348 (electronic book) |
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1282167103 |
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9781282167100 |
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