BookSeymour B. Sarason ; foreword by Saul B. Carson.
Summary: As 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. In "Centers for Ending", Dr. Sarason uses his firsthand experience as both practitioner and patient in senior facilities.
Contents:
Themes of the book
Becoming a resident in a total care facility
Residents as immigrants
Some aspects of organizational craziness
Two months in the nursing home
Planning programs: social security and Head Start
The haves and the have-nots
The need for a presidential commission: some caveats
On the uses of history.