Starting with a review of the historical, philosophical, and political antecedents of the Swedish ombudsman, the authors place the idea of nursing home ombudsmanship within the context of an expanding population of older people who may require institutional care in their more advanced years.

Resolving Grievances in the Nursing Home

Politics & Social Sciences

Monk, Abraham

Kaye, Lenard

Litwin, Howard

Social Sciences

Columbia University Press

A comprehensive reference for retirement professionals and academics that provides up-to-date retirement information as well as lists of relevant books, helpful organizations, and expert professionals, with addresses and telephone numbers. The volume is divided into ten parts: introduction to retirement; life planning; the economic conditions of retirement; work after retirement; legal issues; health conditions and health care; housing and environments; individual and family life; community involvement, leisure, and personal growth; and future directions. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

The Columbia Retirement Handbook

Health, Fitness & Dieting

This work presents the results of a study undertaken by Abraham Monk and Carole Cox, which analyzes how the countries of Argentina, Canada, England, the Netherlands, Norway, and Sweden have responded to the increasing need for home health care. The study, completed with the cooperation of a team of researchers in each country, avoids isolated, fragmented solutions to the problem in favor of a more holistic profile of programs and services, placing them within the general policy and cultural framework of each region. It then examines the applicability of selected aspects of those home care programs deemed most effective to the needs of the United States as it too attempts to deal with a growing older population and the prohibitive costs of institutionalized care.
After a review of existing home care in the United States, and an explanation of the operational model used to collect the data in the study, each country's home health care system is outlined with attention to its organization and operation, its manpower requirements, its place within government policy, and its most successful and innovative practices. The international scope of the work makes its evaluative material and recommendations useful to both health care professionals and international policy makers.

Home Care for the Elderly: An International Perspective

Cox, Carole

Praeger

Despite the rapid aging of the population and the tremendous growth in ethnic and racial diversity among the elderly in our society, empirical studies on long-term care needs and service use of minority elders have been lacking. Based on two national datasets, this is the first comprehensive analysis of long-term care needs, patterns, and determinants of in-home, community-based, and nursing home service utilization and informal support among African American and Hispanic elders, as compared to those of their non-Hispanic White counterparts. The authors also compare caregiver burden within the three groups and present recommendations for ethnic-sensitive long-term care policy and practice for minority elders.

Long-Term Care and Ethnicity

Mui, Ada

Choi, Namkee G.

Focusing on the need for developing new service delivery models for the aged, Health Care of the Aged examines fiscal, political, and social criteria influencing this challenge of the 1990s. The aged are caught in the sweeping changes currently occuring in the financing, organizing, and delivery of human and health care services. From various perspectives, this new book will help shape the direction for elderly health care program development and implementation. With an emphasis on greater long-term care in either home, community, or institutional settings, this important book will increase the understanding for a comprehensive, effective policy designed to carry the growing number of elderly through this decade and into the next. As roles and issues change, this valuable book will become increasingly important to those involved in providing services and care to the elderly. Health care administrators, policymakers, social workers, physical and occupational therapists, and caregivers will benefit from the expertise presented in Health Care of the Aged.

Health Care of the Aged: Needs, Policies, and Services (Journal of Gerontological Social Work)

Mental Health

Routledge

Health Care of the Aged: Needs, Policies, and Services (Journal of Gerontological Social Work Series)

Congregate Housing for the Elderly: Theoretical, Policy, and Programmatic Perspectives

Many elderly persons are unable or unwilling to live completely independently but have no need for the high level of care in a nursing home or related facility. An increasingly popular alternative is noninstitutional service-assisted congregate housing. Congregate Housing for the Elderly brings together the most current research and thinking on theory, policy, and program development in congregate housing. A variety of viewpoints from authorities engaged in different areas of elder housing and environmental analysis furnish a complete perspective of the subject. Policy analysts, researchers, administrators, designers, and other experts discuss such issues as the need and demand for congregate housing, its cost compared to nursing home care, the impact and process of political decision making, and procedures for matching residents to housing. By bringing this vital information together in one volume, Congregate Housing for the Elderly provides a thorough and up-to-date resource necessary for everyone wanting to better understand and meet the housing requirements of the elderly.The wide range of topics covered by this resourceful book answers questions--and raises issues--for gerontologists, program planners, housing developers and administrators, and urban and environmental designers. Chapters identify the environmental concerns and needs of potential consumers and provide specific recommendations for designing forms of congregate housing that are more sensitive to the social, emotional, and physical needs of older residents. Divided into four perspectives, theory, policy, program, and the future, Congregate Housing for the Elderly clarifies the challenge of providing the elderly with appropriate housing while suggesting practical ways to overcome common problems.

Kaye, Lenard W.

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Books by Monk, Abraham

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Resolving Grievances in the Nursing Home

The Columbia Retirement Handbook

Home Care for the Elderly: An International Perspective

Long-Term Care and Ethnicity

Health Care of the Aged: Needs, Policies, and Services (Journal of Gerontological Social Work)

Health Care of the Aged: Needs, Policies, and Services (Journal of Gerontological Social Work Series)

Congregate Housing for the Elderly: Theoretical, Policy, and Programmatic Perspectives

Congregate Housing for the Elderly: Theoretical, Policy, and Programmatic Perspectives