Group Residences for Older Adults: Physical Features, Policies, and Social Climate [Hardcover]

Rudolf H. Moos (Author), Sonne Lemke (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 5, 1994 | ISBN-10: 0195062574 | ISBN-13: 978-0195062571 | Edition: 1

This important book describes a unique new procedure for evaluating how elderly persons living in nursing homes, residential care facilities, and senior apartments are affected by their environments. By reporting results from a comprehensive appraisal of group residential settings throughout the United States, the authors describe ways in which settings for older adults vary in their resident and staff characteristics, physical resources, policies and services, and social climates. They also show how resources are currently allocated to older people based on their social status and functional abilities, how facility size and ownership affect resource availability, and how setting characteristics may impact residents' lives. The book will be of particular interest to gerontological researchers and practitioners, community psychologists, and social service professionals who will find practical suggestions, based on empirical data, for improving existing residential settings and for planning new ones.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"Gerontologists and other professionals concerned with personal and environmental congruence should find this book of special interest." -- Readings: A Journal of Reviews and Commentary in Mental Health

"The authors cover a spectrum running from hospitals for the chronically ill to minimal service facilities offering only meals and housekeeping, providing a framework for understanding these settings." --Journal of Planning Literature

"Gerontologists and other professionals concerned with personal and environmental congruence should find this book of special interest."-- Readings: A Journal of Reviews and Commentary in Mental Health

"The authors cover a spectrum running from hospitals for the chronically ill to minimal service facilities offering only meals and housekeeping, providing a framework for understanding these settings."--Journal of Planning Literature

"Resonating the renewed interest in the social aspects of environments, the authors provide a holistic perspective of group residential settings for the elderly . . . . Group Residences for Older Adults would be a valuable addition to any library interested in aging issues, and it would be of particular interest to professionals involved in evaluating, planning, programming, and designing residential environments for older adults or to academicians interested in environmental context of the elderly."--Contemporary Psychology

About the Author

Rudolf H. Moos is at Stanford University School of Medicine. Sonne Lemke is at Palo Alto Department of Veterans Affairs and Stanford University Medical Centers.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 304 pages
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA; 1 edition (May 5, 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0195062574
• ISBN-13: 978-0195062571
• Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 6.1 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,688,119 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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