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Abuse, although often not detected or reported, existed in every
facility we surveyed. It is a serious problem. Old, weak, and often
cognitively impaired, nursing home patients can be easy targets for
physical, psychological, material, and financial mistreatment at
the hands of those entrusted with their care, safety, and
well-being. Maltreatment of Patients in Nursing Homes: There Is No
Safe Place examines the dark side of nursing homes, where not every
employee has the commitment of Mother Theresa. This groundbreaking
book applies criminological theory to help develop practical
methods of controlling abuse and presents the results of the first
and only nationwide study on the theft of patients' belongings, a
form of abuse too often ignored by the nursing home industry.
Maltreatment of Patients in Nursing Homes surveys employees,
administrators, and family members of patients in 47 nursing homes
throughout the United States. Their responses provide invaluable
insights on a wide range of topics, including the social and
psychological factors that cause different types of abuse,
characteristics of nursing home patients and employees, the
bureaucracy of nursing homes, victimization rates, workforce issues
of nursing home aides, and federal regulations for nursing homes.
The information gained from the surveys forms the basis for
detailed recommendations for creating a safer environment and
reducing all forms of abuse, including theft-prevention training
programs, background checks and improved screening of potential
employees, education and advocacy for current staff, and the reform
of federal regulations. Maltreatment of Patients in Nursing Homes
examines: types of physical abuse (restraints, sexual abuse,
neglect) the who, what, and why of nursing home theft types of
financial abuse (trust accounts, bank accounts, improper charges
for services and drugs, identity theft) types of psychological
abuse (abandonment, segregation, childlike treatment, verbal abuse)
effects of psychological abuse (depression, learned helplessness,
psychiatric disorders) reasons for abuse by employees (staff
turnover, job burnout, job dissatisfaction, caregiver stress) One
of the few books to deal with abuse of the elderly outside a
domestic setting, Maltreatment of Patients in Nursing Homes: There
Is No Safe Place interprets and analyzes abuse to provide new ways
of thinking about this growing problem and new methods of
preventing it from growing any more widespread.
Leadership can be a challenging and complex area of practice, but
this textbook will be your essential guide, teaching you how to
master this important skill and find your professional voice. The
book considers the challenges of leadership in the early years,
exploring both the theoretical aspects, and the skills and tools
needed to support and develop leadership and mentoring in practice.
You will be encouraged to critically reflect on practice in a
global context, looking at vignettes, case studies and reflections
from international settings, which will equip you with valuable
transferable leadership skills, applicable to any situation in
practice.
Leadership can be a challenging and complex area of practice, but
this textbook will be your essential guide, teaching you how to
master this important skill and find your professional voice. The
book considers the challenges of leadership in the early years,
exploring both the theoretical aspects, and the skills and tools
needed to support and develop leadership and mentoring in practice.
You will be encouraged to critically reflect on practice in a
global context, looking at vignettes, case studies and reflections
from international settings, which will equip you with valuable
transferable leadership skills, applicable to any situation in
practice.
This text provides a comprehensive overview of the sociology of
aging, and remains the only book of its kind to approach aging from
a purely sociological perspective. This new edition is completely
updated throughout, with new chapters that discuss the now immanent
retirement of the first of the baby boomers, the new form housing
arrangements known as semi-independent or assisted living, elder
abuse in nursing homes (and quality issues in nursing homes
generally), and the long-term problems facing Medicare and Social
Security.
Abuse, although often not detected or reported, existed in every
facility we surveyed. It is a serious problem. Old, weak, and often
cognitively impaired, nursing home patients can be easy targets for
physical, psychological, material, and financial mistreatment at
the hands of those entrusted with their care, safety, and
well-being. Maltreatment of Patients in Nursing Homes: There Is No
Safe Place examines the dark side of nursing homes, where not every
employee has the commitment of Mother Theresa. This groundbreaking
book applies criminological theory to help develop practical
methods of controlling abuse and presents the results of the first
and only nationwide study on the theft of patients' belongings, a
form of abuse too often ignored by the nursing home industry.
Maltreatment of Patients in Nursing Homes surveys employees,
administrators, and family members of patients in 47 nursing homes
throughout the United States. Their responses provide invaluable
insights on a wide range of topics, including the social and
psychological factors that cause different types of abuse,
characteristics of nursing home patients and employees, the
bureaucracy of nursing homes, victimization rates, workforce issues
of nursing home aides, and federal regulations for nursing homes.
The information gained from the surveys forms the basis for
detailed recommendations for creating a safer environment and
reducing all forms of abuse, including theft-prevention training
programs, background checks and improved screening of potential
employees, education and advocacy for current staff, and the reform
of federal regulations. Maltreatment of Patients in Nursing Homes
examines: types of physical abuse (restraints, sexual abuse,
neglect) the who, what, and why of nursing home theft types of
financial abuse (trust accounts, bank accounts, improper charges
for services and drugs, identity theft) types of psychological
abuse (abandonment, segregation, childlike treatment, verbal abuse)
effects of psychological abuse (depression, learned helplessness,
psychiatric disorders) reasons for abuse by employees (staff
turnover, job burnout, job dissatisfaction, caregiver stress) One
of the few books to deal with abuse of the elderly outside a
domestic setting, Maltreatment of Patients in Nursing Homes: There
Is No Safe Place interprets and analyzes abuse to provide new ways
of thinking about this growing problem and new methods of
preventing it from growing any more widespread.
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