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Peer reviewedBurgio, Louis D.; Burgio, Kathryn L. – International Journal of Aging and Human Development, 1990
Asserts that, if long-term care is to progress from custodial model to therapeutic model of rehabilitation, role of nursing assistants must be redesigned. Reviews current methods of institutional staff training and management and proposes model for geriatric, long-term care facilities. Discusses organizational resistance and offers suggestions for…
Descriptors: Geriatrics, Institutional Personnel, Long Term Care, Models
Download full textDobrof, Rose; Litwak, Eugene – 1977
This manual is based upon a study of 247 old people and their families and five long-term care facilities in New York City. The data indicate that what families do for their aged kin in institutions makes a difference to the older person, and that the ability of families to maintain contact with their institutionalized relative depends, in part,…
Descriptors: Attendants, Family Involvement, Family Relationship, Family Role
