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Inside Assisted Living

The Search for Home

J. Kevin Eckert, Paula C. Carder, Leslie A. Morgan, Ann Christine Frankowski, and Erin G. Roth
foreword by Sheryl Zimmerman, Ph.D., Lynn Keimig, M.H.A., Robert L. Rubinstein, Ph.D., John G. Schumacher, Ph.D., Debra Dobbs, Ph.D., Tommy B. Piggee Jr., M.A., Leanne J. Clark, and Bill Thomas, M.D.

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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...

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.

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It can illuminate in depth many of the issues in assisted-care living.

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.

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.

One of the most important books written about assisted living communities and the people who live in them. The authors succeed in unveiling the unknown dimension of dwelling in assisted living by bringing home to us the poignant reality and earnestness of living in a long-term care setting that strives to substitute for home.

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9
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264
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9780801892608
Table of Contents

List of Contributors
Foreword, by Bill Thomas, M.D.
Preface
1. Introduction
2. Miss Helen at Valley Glen Home
3. Opal at Franciscan House
4. Karen at Huntington Inn
5. Mrs. Koehler at Middlebury Manor
6. Dr

List of Contributors
Foreword, by Bill Thomas, M.D.
Preface
1. Introduction
2. Miss Helen at Valley Glen Home
3. Opal at Franciscan House
4. Karen at Huntington Inn
5. Mrs. Koehler at Middlebury Manor
6. Dr. Catherine at the Chesapeake
7. Mr. Sidney at Laurel Ridge
8. Everyday Life in Assisted Living
9. Aging in Places
10. Aging in Places
Appendix: Technical Description of the Research Project
Notes
References
Index

Author Bios
J. Kevin Eckert
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J. Kevin Eckert, PhD

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.
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Paula C. Carder, Ph.D.

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.
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Leslie A. Morgan, Ph.D.

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.
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Ann Christine Frankowski, Ph.D.

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.
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Erin G. Roth, M.A.

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.
Sheryl Zimmerman
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Sheryl Zimmerman, Ph.D.

Sheryl Zimmerman, Ph.D., is an associate professor, School of Social Work, and co-director and senior research fellow of the Program on Aging, Disability, and Long-Term Care at the Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; she has conducted numerous research projects directly studying nearly ten thousand residents of long-term care...