Sick To Death and Not Going to Take It Anymore! - Reforming Health Care for the Last Years of Life (Hardcover)

Just a few generations ago, serious illness, like hazardous weather, arrived with little warning, and people either lived through it or died. In this important, convincing, and long-overdue call for health care reform, Joanne Lynn demonstrates that our current health system, like our concepts of health and disease, developed at a time when life was mostly short, serious illnesses and disabilities were common at every age, and dying was quick. Today, most Americans live a long life, with the disabilities and discomforts of progressive chronic illness appearing only during the final chapters of their life stories. Sick to Death and Not Going to Take It Anymore! maintains that health care and community services are not set up to meet the needs of the large number of people who face a prolonged period of progressive illness and disability before death. Lynn offers what she calls an "owner's manual for the health care system," which lays out facts, concepts, strategies, and action plans for genuine reform and gives the reader new ways to interpret information creatively, imagine innovative possibilities, and take steps to implement them.

General

Imprint:	University of California Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	California/Milbank Books on Health and the Public, 10
Release date:	October 2004
First published:	2005
Authors:	Joanne Lynn
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	217
ISBN-13:	978-0-520-24300-2
Categories:	Books > Medicine > General issues > Health systems & services > General
LSN:	0-520-24300-5
Barcode:	9780520243002

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