Inside Assisted Living: The Search for Home

Assisted living is the fastest-growing alternative to skilled nursing care for frail older persons in the United States. The expectations, settings, and missions of these residences are varied, making it difficult for prospective residents and their families to anticipate what it would be like to live in them. This book is a unique portal into the real world of assisted living and the key issues facing consumers, providers, and policy makers. 
Drawing on in-depth interviews with residents, their family members, staffers, and administrators, Inside Assisted Living opens the window on day-to-day life in six different types of assisted living residence. From "Miss Helen at Valley Glen Home" to "Mr. Sidney at Laurel Ridge," the detailed profiles of individuals show the commonalities among the residences while highlighting the positive and negative aspects of each. The voices of those living, visiting, and working in the homes clarify the important local (social relations, staff dynamics, leadership) and national (funding, regulation, aging-in-place) challenges presented by assisted living. 
Introductory and concluding chapters synthesize new findings that cross the six settings and reflect issues vital to all participants. The book also features an appendix detailing the research process involved in creating the profiles.

Politics & Social Sciences

Morgan PhD, Leslie A.

Eckert PhD, J. Kevin

Carder PhD, Paula C.

Frankowski PhD, Ann Christine

Roth MA, Erin G.

Social Sciences

Johns Hopkins University Press

As our aging population grows ever larger, it is increasingly important to understand how adults age and what we can do to provide up-to-date care to ensure their well-being as an integral part of society. Leslie Morgan and Suzanne Kunkel understand that this phenomenon is about much more than just the physical or biological aspects of growing older and have put together a comprehensive text on the impact of society and sociology on the aging process. Use this text to explore the diversity of the aging population and dispel the major stereotypes surrounding the elderly. Learn about aging through all the layers of social context from family life to politics and economics. And through this approach, come to see how aging is more than just an individual process, it is a process that effects the direction of our society as a whole. For the Student: 
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<li> Web sites of interest and key terms defined at the end of each chapter</li> <li>Real life stories and essays on love, sex, music, medicine, and crime</li>
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For the Professor: 
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<li>Assignment-ready reading in a "One Chapter a Week" format</li> <li>Questions for discussion and review at each chapter end</li> <li>Applying Theory" sections place the lesson of each chapter in a clear, real-world setting</li>
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 Instructor's Guide Now Available! An Instructor's Manual for this textbook is available for those professors who have adopted Aging, Society, and the Life Course, Third Edition and can verify a bookstore order of 7 or more copies. Please email our Marketing Department at marketing@springerpub.com if you have adopted this text as you will need a password to download the guide. Please provide the name and telephone number of the bookstore that ordered the textbooks. A print version of the Instructor's Manual is also available."

Aging, Society, and the Life Course

Kunkel PhD, Suzanne R.

Springer Publishing Company

Doody's Score: 91, 4 Stars [This] book's unfading preoccupation with social context, social processes, and social structures distinguishes itself and greatly contributes to the discourse in gerontology."--The Gerontologist This is a comprehensive textbook for both undergraduate and graduate level courses, detailing the impact of societal forces on the aging process. The book focuses on the diversity of the older population, examining it from micro/macro perspectives in order to understand aging and the life course as social phenomena. This latest edition examines significant changes in the field of social gerontology, such as the paradigms of aging and the life course, the baby boomer cohorts as they approach retirement and later life, the growing interest in global aging, and civic engagement. This text encourages students to examine aging from personal, familial, community, societal and global perspectives, including both the positive and negative realities of aging. 
Key Features: <ul>
<li>Provides websites of interest at the end of each chapter </li>
<li>Presents provocative essays on love, sex, music, medicine, and crime to further expand on chapter contents </li>
<li>Provides review questions and key terms as study guides at the end of each chapter </li>
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Named a 2013 Doody's Core Title! Doody's Medical Reviews Score: 92, 4 Stars! [This book] is well written and achieves its aim of exploring the meaning of quality from a range of perspectives. It has a welcome focus on the views of residents, and the authors are to be congratulated for the efforts they have made to capture these views...This book will be of interest to a broad audience in relation to AL and other residential care settings, including managers, commissioners, care staff, researchers, students and also the wider public."--Ageing &amp; Society Considering that seventy-four million baby boomers will be the next generation of assisted living residents, there is a great need to create, sustain, and evaluate quality in these settings. Whereas most books focus on quality of care, this is the only volume to explicitly delve into the lives of those who inhabit assisted living facilities, seeking to understand and evaluate their perceived ideas of what constitutes quality of life. Quality Assisted Living provides results from a National Institute on Aging-funded study that gathered information from not only residents, but also staff and family members, who are considered experts who can better help us to understand how quality should be conceived and evaluated. The volume addresses the complexities underlying seemingly clear cut issues and provides concrete suggestions for reframing problems in order to find better solutions. Plentiful stories and quotations are used to identity those elements of assisted living that are most conducive to a satisfying quality of life, and address how this research has led to a consideration of quality as a process rather than as a single condition. 
Key Features <ul>
<li>Employs the views and voices of research participants </li>
<li>Provides down-to-earth and directly applicable results </li>
<li>Written in a language that is accessible to a wide readership </li>
<li>Describes complex social situation within the wall of AL </li>
<li>Examines issues arising from collective living such as regulations, financing and diverse resident needs </li>
<li>Uses real life stories to illustrate key points of the narrative </li>
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Quality Assisted Living: Informing Practice through Research

Zimmerman PhD, Sheryl

Keimig MHA, Lynn

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