The Home Care Experience: Ethnography and Policy

By Andrea Sankar

Book Overview

As policy and and financial restrictions increase for hospitals and health care agencies, households will be faced with caring for a family member who becomes acutely or chronically ill. This volume addresses the problems associated with this move from institution to the home; contributors discuss the home as sickroom, patterns of caregiving in the family and the interaction of the judicial process and social services; practical advice about planning a sick room is also included.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803935285
• ISBN13: 9780803935280
• Release Date: May 1990
• Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.