Dignity And Old Age

Author : Rose Dobrof
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317844610
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dignity and Old Age written by Rose Dobrof and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-19 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Open up Dignity and Old Age, and you’ll find a wealth of thoughtful suggestions for how you and others can gain more respect and admiration for your relatives, neighbors, and patients who are in the latter stages of life. You’ll examine the word “dignity” as it relates to the world’s elderly population to the fullest and most challenging extent, taking into account cross-cultural, religious, and even literary influences. Throughout this provoking and thorough examination, you’ll tackle some tough questions, all of which will equip you with the theoretical and practical know-how needed to evoke change and preserve honorable relations with the elderly persons in your professional and personal relationships. The manner in which Dignity and Old Age will help you grow in your relationships with elderly people is twofold--ideally and practically. You’ll begin with a revitalizing discussion of concepts that revolve around dignity and the elderly, and from there you’ll move into the sphere of active practice, gleaning a wide variety of ways you can enhance your affairs with the elderly in health care, social services, government, and retirement entitlements and benefits. Specifically, you’ll find positive approaches in these and other areas: the dignity in old age the true meaning of “Quality of Life” in old age achieving respect for ethnic elders as a health care provider bringing spirituality and community together in the last stage of life forming a philanthropic, caring partnership between government and the elderly In this insightful volume, you’ll take an important step forward in creating a more dignified quality of life for the world’s elderly--today’s and tomorrow’s. Overall, you’ll gain the variety of perspectives necessary to ensure that everyone you come in contact with in casual, legal, leisure, and professional spheres will see you care enough to be concerned with the ideas and practices contained in Dignity and Old Age.

Author : Ai-jen Poo
Publisher : New Press, The
ISBN 13 : 1620970465
Total Pages : 149 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Age of Dignity written by Ai-jen Poo and published by New Press, The. This book was released on 2009-03-17 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of Time’s 100 most influential people “shines a new light on the need for a holistic approach to caregiving in America . . . Timely and hopeful” (Maria Shriver). In The Age of Dignity, thought leader and activist Ai-jen Poo offers a wake-up call about the statistical reality that will affect us all: Fourteen percent of our population is now over sixty-five; by 2030 that ratio will be one in five. In fact, our fastest-growing demographic is the eighty-five-plus age group—over five million people now, a number that is expected to more than double in the next twenty years. This change presents us with a new challenge: how we care for and support quality of life for the unprecedented numbers of older Americans who will need it. Despite these daunting numbers, Poo has written a profoundly hopeful book, giving us a glimpse into the stories and often hidden experiences of the people—family caregivers, older people, and home care workers—whose lives will be directly shaped and reshaped in this moment of demographic change. The Age of Dignity outlines a road map for how we can become a more caring nation, providing solutions for fixing our fraying safety net while also increasing opportunities for women, immigrants, and the unemployed in our workforce. As Poo has said, “Care is the strategy and the solution toward a better future for all of us.” “Every American should read this slender book. With luck, it will be the future for all of us.” —Gloria Steinem “Positive and inclusive.” —The New York Times “A big-hearted book [that] seeks to transform our dismal view of aging and caregiving.” —Ms. magazine

Author : Rose Dobrof
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317844602
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dignity and Old Age written by Rose Dobrof and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-19 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Open up Dignity and Old Age, and you’ll find a wealth of thoughtful suggestions for how you and others can gain more respect and admiration for your relatives, neighbors, and patients who are in the latter stages of life. You’ll examine the word “dignity” as it relates to the world’s elderly population to the fullest and most challenging extent, taking into account cross-cultural, religious, and even literary influences. Throughout this provoking and thorough examination, you’ll tackle some tough questions, all of which will equip you with the theoretical and practical know-how needed to evoke change and preserve honorable relations with the elderly persons in your professional and personal relationships. The manner in which Dignity and Old Age will help you grow in your relationships with elderly people is twofold--ideally and practically. You’ll begin with a revitalizing discussion of concepts that revolve around dignity and the elderly, and from there you’ll move into the sphere of active practice, gleaning a wide variety of ways you can enhance your affairs with the elderly in health care, social services, government, and retirement entitlements and benefits. Specifically, you’ll find positive approaches in these and other areas: the dignity in old age the true meaning of “Quality of Life” in old age achieving respect for ethnic elders as a health care provider bringing spirituality and community together in the last stage of life forming a philanthropic, caring partnership between government and the elderly In this insightful volume, you’ll take an important step forward in creating a more dignified quality of life for the world’s elderly--today’s and tomorrow’s. Overall, you’ll gain the variety of perspectives necessary to ensure that everyone you come in contact with in casual, legal, leisure, and professional spheres will see you care enough to be concerned with the ideas and practices contained in Dignity and Old Age.

Author : Muriel R. Gillick, M.D.
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469635259
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Old and Sick in America written by Muriel R. Gillick, M.D. and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2017-10-06 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the introduction of Medicare and Medicaid in 1965, the American health care system has steadily grown in size and complexity. Muriel R. Gillick takes readers on a narrative tour of American health care, incorporating the stories of older patients as they travel from the doctor's office to the hospital to the skilled nursing facility, and examining the influence of forces as diverse as pharmaceutical corporations, device manufacturers, and health insurance companies on their experience. A scholar who has practiced medicine for over thirty years, Gillick offers readers an informed and straightforward view of health care from the ground up, revealing that many crucial medical decisions are based not on what is best for the patient but rather on outside forces, sometimes to the detriment of patient health and quality of life. Gillick suggests a broadly imagined patient-centered reform of the health care system with Medicare as the engine of change, a transformation that would be mediated through accountability, cost-effectiveness, and culture change.

Author : Katie Eriksson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780977271405
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Suffering Human Being written by Katie Eriksson and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Harvey Max Chochinov
Publisher : OUP USA
ISBN 13 : 0195176219
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dignity Therapy written by Harvey Max Chochinov and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2012-01-04 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maintaining dignity for patients approaching death is a core principle of palliative care. Dignity therapy, a psychological intervention developed by Dr. Harvey Max Chochinov and his internationally lauded research group, has been designed specifically to address many of the psychological, existential, and spiritual challenges that patients and their families face as they grapple with the reality of life drawing to a close. In the first book to lay out the blueprint for this unique and meaningful intervention, Chochinov addresses one of the most important dimensions of being human. Being alive means being vulnerable and mortal; he argues that dignity therapy offers a way to preserve meaning and hope for patients approaching death. With history and foundations of dignity in care, and step by step guidance for readers interested in implementing the program, this volume illuminates how dignity therapy can change end-of-life experience for those about to die - and for those who will grieve their passing.

Author : Margarete Sandelowski
Publisher : Springer Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 0826156940
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Handbook for Synthesizing Qualitative Research written by Margarete Sandelowski and published by Springer Publishing Company. This book was released on 2007 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Print+CourseSmart

Author : Norma Roth
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1449021018
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Aging Gracefully with Dignity, Integrity and Spunk Intact written by Norma Roth and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2009-09 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to a new and exciting concept: Aging Gracefully with Dignity, Integrity & Spunk Intact: Aging Defiantly! Yes, the dawn of a new age is here. Along with the Age of Life Sciences (extending both life and health opportunities for those "entering that age"), new possibilities are on the horizon, limitless boundaries beckons, and a new age dawns: The Age of the Silver Generation. Explore your strengths, develop your hidden treasures, and explore the endless opportunities of your Personal Retrieval System (PRS) within the self. The sum total of knowledge and experience gained over a lifetime may well be available to you for most of the rest of your life. Empower yourself; let no one hold you back. Become the trail blazers and pathfinders. Science, medicine and technology are on your side: EMPOWER YOURSELF... and join in the glitter and sparkle of a rapidly developing new generation. Read this book -- baby boomers too -- and see what is in store for The Age of the Silver Generation and remember: the only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be. (Ralph Waldo Emerson).

Author : Lennart Nordenfelt
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 140518342X
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dignity in Care for Older People written by Lennart Nordenfelt and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-06-02 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The notion of quality of life has for several decades been well-established in ethical debate about health care and the care of older people. Dignity in Care for Older People highlights the notion of dignity within the care of the elderly, focusing on the importance of theoretical concepts. Primarily based on a Research Project, Dignity and Older Europeans, funded by the European Commission, this book provides a thorough investigation of the concept of dignity and related concepts such as quality of life and autonomy. It includes a chapter devoted to the dignity of human embodiment, emphasizing the importance of the notion of the lived body in the context of elderly care. As a result of the conceptual study a model of dignity emerges in which four variants of dignity stand out: dignity of merit, dignity as moral status, dignity of identity and Menschenwürde (the specifically human value). From this follows a discussion of how these variants of dignity can be used in characterizing the care of the elderly. The notions of dignity and dignified care are discussed particularly in relation to demented persons and dying persons. The book also contains a chapter on the dignity of the dead person. International in focus, Dignity in Care for Older People provides a contemporary discussion of the care of older people, and will be of use to qualified nurses and social care practitioners working with older people, as well as those on ethics and gerontology courses.

Author : Mark Schweda
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030250970
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Aging and Human Nature written by Mark Schweda and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-01-11 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on ageing as a topic of philosophical, theological, and historical anthropology. It provides a systematic inventory of fundamental theoretical questions and assumptions involved in the discussion of ageing and old age. What does it mean for human beings to grow old and become more vulnerable and dependent? How can we understand the manifestations of ageing and old age in the human body? How should we interpret the processes of change in the temporal course of a human life? What impact does old age have on the social dimensions of human existence? In order to tackle these questions, the volume brings together internationally distinguished scholars from the fields of philosophy, theology, cultural studies, social gerontology, and ageing studies. The collection of their original articles makes a twofold contribution to contemporary academic discourse. On one hand, it helps to clarify and deepen our understanding of ageing and old age by examining it from the fundamental point of view of philosophical, theological, and historical anthropology. At the same time, it also enhances and expands the discourses of philosophical, theological, and historical anthropology by systematically taking into account that human beings are essentially ageing creatures.