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The Perils of Patient Government: Professionals and Patients in a Chronic-Care Hospital

The Perils of Patient Government: Professionals and Patients in a Chronic-Care Hospital

Lella, Joseph W.
Bayne, J. R.
Csank, J. Z.

Paperback

Medical ReferenceGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 0889201978
ISBN13: 9780889201972
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Published: Oct 1 1988
Pages: 248
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.53 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

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 degrees of social withdrawal, an opportunity to express their individuality and independence and to shape institutional decisions.

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