Bøker av Abraham Monk

Focusing on the need for developing new service delivery models for the aged, Health Care of the Aged examines fiscal, political, and social criteria influencing this challenge of the 1990s. From various perspectives, this new book will help shape the direction for elderly health care program development and implementation. With an emphasis on greater long-term care in either home, community, or institutional settings, this important book will increase the understanding for a comprehensive, effective policy designed to carry the growing number of elderly through this decade and into the next.

Starting with a review of the historical, philosophical, and political antecedents of the Swedish ombudsman, the authors place the idea of nursing home ombudsmanship within the context of an expanding population of older people who may require institutional care in their more advanced years.

Examining the need for the development of better health care for the aged, this book focuses on the social, political and fiscal criteria involved. The contributors emphasize long-term care in either the home, the community or institutional settings.