{"product_id":"9781441957245","title":"Caregiving: Research • Practice • Policy: The Coming Crisis in the Care of Aged People","description":"\u003ch1\u003eCaregiving: Research • Practice • Policy: The Coming Crisis in the Care of Aged People\u003c\/h1\u003e \u003ch2\u003eSarason, Seymour B.\u003c\/h2\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs people live longer and health care costs continue to rise and fewer doctors choose to specialize in geriatrics, how prepared is the United States to care for its sick and elderly? According to veteran psychologist Seymour Sarason’s eloquent and compelling new book, the answer is: inadequately at best. And rarely discussed among the grim statistics is the psychosocial price paid by nursing home patients, from loneliness and isolation to depression and dependency.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eCenters for Ending\u003c\/i\u003e, Dr. Sarason uses his firsthand experience as both practitioner and patient in senior facilities to reveal wide-ranging professional and moral issues affecting this seemingly familiar terrain. Insensitive medical personnel, poorly trained nurses and aides, indifferent administrators, and a prevailing culture content with treating “bodies” instead of human beings are identified as contributing factors. Drawing on America’s rich history of large-scale solutions to social problems, Dr. Sarason offers penetrating insights and bold suggestions in such areas as:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe widening care gap between haves and have-nots.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhy professional caregivers fail to understand patients.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe nursing home resident as immigrant.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhy previous reform efforts have not worked.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe need for a Presidential commission for the elderly.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe scenario if conditions are allowed to remain as they are or worsen.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis concise volume is essential reading for researchers, graduate students, professionals, practitioners, and policy makers across such fields as geriatric medicine, health psychology, social work, public health, and public policy.  \u003ci\u003eCenters for Ending \u003c\/i\u003eis a clarion call to be ignored at great cost to our elders and ourselves.  \u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublished by: Springer\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublication Date: 2011-08-04\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN-13: 9781441957245\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDOI: 10.1007\/978-1-4419-5725-2\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDimensions: 235cm x155cm\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePages: 109\u003c\/p\u003e ","brand":"Springer New York","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47397005328524,"sku":"9781441957245","price":44.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9781441957245.jpg?v=1775774506","url":"https:\/\/lateknightbooks.com\/products\/9781441957245","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}