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Day Care Services: An Alternative to Institutional Care†

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 1975
ABSTRACT The day care program at St. Camillus Nursing Home in Syracuse, New York is described. The growth rate of the program, the observed benefits to the participants, and acceptance by their family members indicate its value to the community.
N H, Mehta, C M, Mack
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Institutional Care, Foster Home Care or Family Care?

Pediatrics, 1974
Three case histories and an account of an epidemic in a home have highlighted a few of the physical, social and mental problems encountered by motherless babies in their different environmental settings. The institutionalized child may have a normal physical development, but becomes mentally retarded because of lack of social stimulation and individual
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PROBLEMS OF INSTITUTIONAL CARE OF THE AGED

American Journal of Psychiatry, 1950
The present methods of managing the problems of the aged have proved unsatisfactory and inadequate. Common humanity demands the formulation of some program of care that permits the elderly to maintain dignity, self-respect, and a sense of worth as well as providing physical necessities. This can be accomplished by state institutions designed to provide
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HUMANIZING INSTITUTIONAL CARE FOR THE AGED

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 1967
“Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honour the face of the old man” ( Leviticus 19 : 32.)
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Institutional Care at the End of Life

Medical Care, 2007
this issue of Medical Care, Dy and colleagues1 present an analysis of linked National Long-Term Care Survey (NLTCS) and Medicare data to examine use of Medicaresupported institutional services at the end of life. They examine 3 types of institutional services covered by the Medicare program: hospice, inpatient hospital and skilled nursing facility (SNF)
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Organizational Structure and Institutional Care

Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 1973
This study examines the formal organizational structure of a residential institution for the mentally retarded and specifies some of the influences of alternative structures upon selected staff behaviors in resident care. The objective was to test the proposition that decentralization of institutional structure facilitates the individualization of ...
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Community alternatives to institutional care

American Journal of Psychiatry, 1976
The Community Mental Health Center Amendments of 1975 (Public Law 94-63) mandate that federally funded mental health centers provide specific services to patients discharged from mental health facilities, including follow-up care and a system of transitional halfway houses. In addition, they must provide assistance in screening potential inpatients and
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Pflegeheime als „Caring Institutions“

2015
Fur „gute Sorge“ in Institutionen ist es wichtig, dass Machtfragen angesprochen werden und dass es einen „politischen Raum“ gibt, in dem Konflikte gelost werden konnen. Zahlreiche Widerspruche pragen das Pflegeheim als Organisation; der Widerspruch zwischen Autonomie und Fursorglichkeit ist einer der prominentesten.
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Institutional Integrity in Roman Catholic Health Care Institutions

Christian Bioethics, 2001
Issues of institutional identity and integrity in Roman Catholic health care institutions have been addressed at the level of individual institutions as well as by organizations of Catholic health care providers and at various levels in the Church hierarchy.
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Ethics of Caring and the Institutional Ethics Committee

Hypatia, 1989
Institutional ethics committees (lECs) in health care facilities now create moral policy, provide moral education, and consult with physicians and other health care workers. After sketching reasons for the development of IECs, this paper first examines the predominant moral standards it is often assumed lECs are now using, these standards being neo ...
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