For good reasons, Americans are growing concerned about the cost
of health care and housing. There are many reasons why people need
care-the addiction of a teenage child or spouse, an elderly
relative in need of nursing home care, a psychological disorder, or
a chronic medical condition--but even moderately successful
institutional solutions for these problems are often too costly to
be truly helpful. The cost of healthcare is so high it can result
in homelessness. Leonard Jason and Martin Perdoux show us a
relatively low-cost and effective solution growing in neighborhoods
across the country: true community. People are moving in together
to meet each other's needs and, in the process, create a much
higher quality of life than they would find in an institution.
People living together in these healing communities include the
elderly, recovering alcoholics and drug addicts, and people
suffering from mental illness, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, AIDS, or
Multiple Chemical Sensitivity. These communities offer them a way
to recover the caring, structure, direction, and respect that a
strong family can provide. The authors of this work show us how
communities created out of necessity by their members constitute a
more sustained, natural means to healing.
In his foreword, Thomas Moore points out that the communities
described in this book are not only physical homes, but also
shelters for the soul, places to find the deepest kind of security.
Here you will see concrete ways imaginative leaders help those in
trouble find themselves rather than become dependent on
institutions. It is a new and promising imagination of how social
healing works: not by setting up more programs, but by treating
people in trouble as human beings, with certain emotional and
social needs. This book teaches how to re-imagine this whole
process, and now, in an increasingly technical and lonely world, we
need this precious wisdom more than ever.
General
Imprint: |
Praeger Publishers Inc
|
Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
June 2004 |
First published: |
June 2004 |
Authors: |
Leonard Jason
• Martin Perdoux
|
Dimensions: |
244 x 156 x 19mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover - Cloth over boards / With dust jacket
|
Pages: |
176 |
Edition: |
1st |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-275-98320-8 |
Categories: |
Books >
Social sciences >
Psychology >
General
|
LSN: |
0-275-98320-X |
Barcode: |
9780275983208 |
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