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 to
reveal wide-ranging professional and moral issues affecting this
seemingly familiar terrain. Insensitive medical personnel, poorly
trained nurses and aides, indifferent administrators, and a
prevailing culture content with treating "bodies" instead of human
beings are identified as contributing factors. Drawing on America's
rich history of large-scale solutions to social problems, Dr.
Sarason offers penetrating insights and bold suggestions in such
areas as:
The widening care gap between haves and have-nots.Why
professional caregivers fail to understand patients.The nursing
home resident as immigrant.Why previous reform efforts have not
worked.The need for a Presidential commission for the elderly.The
scenario if conditions are allowed to remain as they are or
worsen.
This concise volume is essential reading for researchers,
graduate students, professionals, practitioners, and policy makers
across such fields as geriatric medicine, health psychology, social
work, public health, and public policy. "Centers for Ending "is a
clarion call to be ignored at great cost to our elders and
ourselves. "
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