Inside Assisted Living - The Search for Home

Informationen zum Autor J. Kevin Eckert is director of the Center for Aging Studies at the Erickson School, and dean of and professor at the school and the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. His is the co-author of Small Board-and-Care Homes: Residential Care in Transition . Paula C. Carder , formerly associate director of the Center for Aging Studies at the Erickson School at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, is an assistant professor at the Institute on Aging, Portland State University. Leslie A. Morgan is a professor in the department of sociology and anthropology at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and a senior research associate with the Center for Aging Studies at the Erickson School at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Ann Christine Frankowski is a senior research associate with the center and an adjunct assistant professor in the department of sociology and anthropology at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Erin G. Roth is a senior research analyst and ethnographer with the Center for Aging Studies at the Erickson School at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Sheryl Zimmerman, Ph.D., is an associate professor, School of Social Work, and co-director and senior research fellow of the Program on Aging, Disability, and Long-Term Care at the Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; she has conducted numerous research projects directly studying nearly ten thousand residents of long-term care settings and has published widely. Klappentext The book features an appendix detailing the research process involved in creating the profiles. Zusammenfassung The book features an appendix detailing the research process involved in creating the profiles.

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• Authors: Paula C Carder, Paula C. Carder, J Kevin Eckert, J. Kevin Eckert, J.Kevin Eckert, J.kevin Carder Eckert, Ann Christine Frankowski, Leslie A Morgan, Leslie A. Morgan, Erin G Roth, Erin G. Roth
• Assisted by: Bill Thomas (Foreword)
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 10.08.2009
• EAN: 9780801892608
• ISBN: 978-0-8018-9260-8
• No. of pages: 264
• Assisted by: Sheryl Zimmerman, Lynn Keimig, Robert L. Rubinstein, John G. Schumacher, Debra Dobbs, Tommy B. Piggee Jr., Leanne J. Clark
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Non-clinical medicine; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political system; MEDICAL / Geriatrics, MEDICAL / Nursing Home Care, Geriatric medicine, Health systems & services, assisted care;healthcare;aging;life trasnitions