Inside Assisted Living: The Search for Home
- ISBN-10
- 0801892600
- ISBN-13
- 9780801892608
- Category
- Medical
- Pages
- 246
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2009-06-15
- Publisher
- JHU Press
- Authors
- J. Kevin Eckert, Leslie A. Morgan, Paula C. Carder
Description
Draws on in-depth interviews with residents, family members, staff, and administrators of six different types of assisted living residence. An appendix describes the qualitative research process used by a collaborative research team of the Univ. of Maryland Baltimore County's Center for Aging Studies. "Transitions from assisted living: sociocultural aspect," funded by the National Institute on Aging, was designed to provide an understanding of the minor and major life transitions experienced by residentsin assisted living. -- Cover, p.4.
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