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Author: Susan B. Geffen Publisher: ISBN: 9780984216017 Category : Family & Relationships Languages : en Pages : 370
Book Description
The author, a U.S. elder law attorney, uses real-life examples to illustrate how to evaluate current nursing home practices and policies, along with alternative care and associated living choices available for older adults; includes appendices with a nursing home visit evaluation checklist for prospective residents and their family and home care licensing guidelines by state.
Author: Susan B. Geffen Publisher: ISBN: 9780984216017 Category : Family & Relationships Languages : en Pages : 370
Book Description
The author, a U.S. elder law attorney, uses real-life examples to illustrate how to evaluate current nursing home practices and policies, along with alternative care and associated living choices available for older adults; includes appendices with a nursing home visit evaluation checklist for prospective residents and their family and home care licensing guidelines by state.
Author: Michael Allen Fox Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0191064297 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 179
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Thoughts and feelings about home traditionally provided people of all cultures with a firm sense of where they belonged, and why. But with the world rapidly changing, many of our basic notions are becoming problematic. Both internationally and within countries, populations are constantly on the move, seeking better opportunities and living conditions, or an escape from violence and war. In spite of, or perhaps even because of these trends, ideas about home continue to shape the way people everywhere frame an understanding of their lives. In this Very Short Introduction Michael Allen Fox considers the complex meaning of home and the essential importance of place to human psychology. Drawing on a wide array of international examples he discusses what dwelling is and the variety of dwellings. Fox also looks at the politics of the concept of 'home', homelessness, refugeeism and migration, and the future of home, and argues that home remains a central organizing concept in human life. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.
Author: Michael Miller Publisher: ISBN: 9781420825312 Category : Family & Relationships Languages : en Pages : 92
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The questions are always posed by strangers, remote readers, and even my own friends: When did you begin writing? How did you ever learn to write so well, Reggie? The answers are never so simple to proffer because the questions come after they have read or reread a single poem or a series of poems that had become their favorite, poems demanding explanations about its conception, composition, and inspiration. The When is easy enough to pinpoint but the How is attributable to any number of reasons. Few poets can account for those internal cosmic beings who commands the muse, answerable only to the invisible essence of time. My radio sitting atop my desk blares out Jazz. I usually write while listening to those baad ass old Cats--Coltrane. Miles. Dizzy. Yardbird. And the smooth, sultry Lady Balladeers, all smoke and fire. Any one of their cuts could've inspired the rhythmic syncopation that ebbs and flows through my more Jazzy poems. And it could have been something I'd seen on TV-stark images emblazoned in the reservoirs of my mind--a gallant black olympic athlete streaking past hapless opponents and into the annals of history; A Police beadown of an innocent Black suspect and the Southcentral L.A. riots; serial killings; some Ghetto Black girl getting raped, impregnated; kids stomping, Marchin' to Death Row--some dusty old con taking his last breath, conjures inspiration. It is the When question that evokes clarity of the moment that precipitated the heady burst of creativity. It was August 13, 1983. Sweat poured profusely down my brown face as I stared at the twelve white members of the jury. Cold pale faces glared back. "How do you find the Defendant?" The Judge asked them. "Guilty, your Honor," the Jury Foreman said. "We Sentence him to Death." I sank in my chair. I was only 20-something then. Death? I moved about sluggishly, as if in a dream. My Mama wept inconsolably. The prisoners stared in awe from a distance. Damn, Homie. You got the Death Penalty? their eyes seemed to say. But I was too proud to cry. The thought of being executed weighed heavily on my mind-and I slept for two long days. I rose with the clear awakening of my own fragile mortality. How fleeting life is. But there was something about being trapped in a deep dark hole that makes you keep clawing your way back up-even if you'll never make it. I refused to allow the jury's erroneous verdict to define me. I knew I was not--and will never be--the sum total equaling a mere Death Row Inmate, a number corralled, stored, locked away and forgotten. I became fiercely determined to break the interminable cycle of boredom and loneliness and the implacable resolute despair that induces a gradual descent into madness. I immersed myself in the books by the Black Harlem Renaissance writers: Richard Wright. Langston Hughes. Zora Neale Hurston. James Baldwin. Ralph Ellison, and so many others. In the enforced solitude, reading burgeoned my consciousness, ignited sparks in the pit of my gut and raced through my bloodstream like wild brush fires. This is what led to my self-discovery as a writer. This is the answer to the How in the world did you learn to write like that? I write everyday, I rewrite, Cut Polish. The blank white canvas of the page became creations filled with spectacular colors, images, sounds, and living, breathing beings. From the lowest depths of Human Misery flowed the sweetest testament of dreams. They are the poems in this book, poems that garnered Awards and Honorable mentions and certificates of merit.
Author: Beth Baker Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press ISBN: 9780826515636 Category : Nursing homes Languages : en Pages : 252
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"In Old Age in a New Age, journalist Beth Baker takes readers on a journey into some of the best places in America for elders to live. In these remarkable nursing homes, residents have a say in their everyday lives, enjoy an environment that looks and feels like an ordinary home, live with dignity and purpose, and find comfort in close relationships with caregivers." "Baker's visits to more than two dozen facilities include those associated with the Eden Alternative, Green House, Kendal, and the Pioneer Network - where she made some surprising discoveries."--BOOK JACKET.
Author: Debra D. Savage Publisher: iUniverse ISBN: 1450281214 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 109
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In Stop Nursing Home Abuse and Neglect Before It Starts, Debra Savage speaks not only to caregivers and receivers, but also to the families, spouses, and children of nursing home patients. She addresses the growing phenomenon of abuse and neglect in nursing homes across the United Statesand what families can do to prevent it. Savages mission is to help others become informed family advocatesto help prevent our loved ones and family members from becoming victims of abuse or neglect, while others turn their backs and do or say nothing. She aims to help other families who have loved ones in nursing homes or those who are considering placing their family members in nursing homes by providing consumers with accurate and detailed information, along with resources, should a loved one or someone they know become a victim of nursing home neglect or abuse. This no-nonsense guide provides vital information that will assist families in making the toughest decision of their lives, while providing the steps to take to insure that their time in the nursing home is positive.
Author: Lynn Dickinson (M.A.) Publisher: Hunter House ISBN: 9780897934602 Category : Family & Relationships Languages : en Pages : 292
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"Concentrates on the positive aspects of nursing homes and offers strategies for identifying the best facilities--a guide for maintaining and improving relationships between the elderly and their families"--Provided by publisher.
Author: Lynn Dickinson Publisher: Turner Publishing Company ISBN: 1630266221 Category : Health & Fitness Languages : en Pages : 314
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While life in a nursing home is rarely considered a first choice, at times it's the best choice. Still, the decision to put a loved one in a home is incredibly difficult. This book concentrates on the positive aspects of nursing homes and offers strategies for identifying the best facilities. Among the topics covered are how to recognize signs that a family member needs extra support, determining whether in-home care is a viable option, the different types of long-term care, working and communicating with the staff and preparing for the end of life. The book includes exercises for working through emotional reactions to the nursing home decision and how to maintain and improve family relationships in these circumstances. Uplifting stories of people and staff in nursing homes illustrate the concepts in the book, which is clearly written and filled with practical and positive advice.
Author: Cynthia Loucks Publisher: ISBN: 9781889242132 Category : Hospitals, Convalescent Languages : en Pages : 0
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Author Cynthia Loucks provides a first-hand account of the story of quiet desperation that is the day-to-day norm in the majority of nursing homes. Her mother spent the last years of her life as a total-care resident in an average-rated nursing home. She was not beaten, neglected, or otherwise abused-at least not in the sense that would cause headlines to erupt-yet the indignities and careless behaviors documented here are bone-chilling. Loucks's story is not significant because it is unique; it is significant because it is typical. Anecdotes of personal and professional experiences are woven with information about the nursing home business in general. Loucks offers helpful advice throughout the book to anyone who is feeling cornered by the system. In the final chapter, "Hope Rising, " Loucks describes some grassroots programs that give the rest of us reason to hope for a better future, despite our prime-of-life tendency to avoid the topic. The book ends with a Bibliography, Resources, and an Index.This is NOT a book about how to select a nursing home. As the author writes, "Making a valid assessment of a nursing home is difficult when much of what happens, good or bad, within a facility remains hidden until one is in the midst of the nursing home experience." Following is an example of the behind-the-scenes behavior the author refers to: "Mama's skin had gotten as thin as an old shirt that's been worn and washed so many times it has become transparent and easily torn. Yet the aides would take a terry washcloth, coarse from heavy bleaching, and scrub her as though she had been digging ditches all day."The author's main point throughout the book is that restoring people's humanity to theequation of products and services will go a long way toward reforming the system. "It
Author: Susan B. Geffen
Author: Susan B. Geffen
Author: Michael Allen Fox
Author: Michael Miller
Author: Beth Baker
Author: Debra D. Savage
Author: Lynn Dickinson (M.A.)
Author: Lynn Dickinson
Author: William H. Thomas
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Author: Cynthia Loucks