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Inside Assisted Living – The Search for Home
Author(s): Kevin Eckert (Author), Paula Carder (Author), Ann Christine Frankowski (Author), Leslie Morgan (Author)
- Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
- Publication Date: 23 Jun. 2009
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 224 pages
- ISBN-10: 0801892600
- ISBN-13: 9780801892608
Book Description
Assisted living is the fastest-growing alternative to skilled nursing care for frail older persons in the United States. The expectations, settings, and missions of these residences are varied, making it difficult for prospective residents and their families to anticipate what it would be like to live in them. This book is a unique portal into the real world of assisted living and the key issues facing consumers, providers, and policy makers. Drawing on in-depth interviews with residents, their family members, staffers, and administrators, Inside Assisted Living opens the window on day-to-day life in six different types of assisted living residence. From “Miss Helen at Valley Glen Home” to “Mr. Sidney at Laurel Ridge,” the detailed profiles of individuals show the commonalities among the residences while highlighting the positive and negative aspects of each. The voices of those living, visiting, and working in the homes clarify the important local (social relations, staff dynamics, leadership) and national (funding, regulation, aging-in-place) challenges presented by assisted living. Introductory and concluding chapters synthesize new findings that cross the six settings and reflect issues vital to all participants. The book also features an appendix detailing the research process involved in creating the profiles.
Editorial Reviews
Review
An excellent introduction for anyone who needs to acquaint himself or herself with assisted living in anticipation of having to choose assisted care for a parent or other loved one.
–Barbara Petty “Boom!”
Candid and honest . . . Inside Assisted Living helps to heighten the awareness of the need for psychological services to this currently major and rapidly growing population.
–Richard H. Cox “PsycCRITIQUES”
It can illuminate in depth many of the issues in assisted-care living.
— “Publishers Weekly”
About the Author
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.
