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Opinions And Expectations Of Nursing Home Administrators, Jordan I. Kosberg
Opinions And Expectations Of Nursing Home Administrators, Jordan I. Kosberg
The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare
From a comparative analysis of 214 nursing homes in the Chicago area, it was found that the nursing home field is composed of institutions with great variations in treatment resources available to the residents (Kosberg and Tobin, 1972). While the determination of organizational correlates to the extent of treatment resources was the major objective of the study, an exploration of the attitudes of a sample of nursing home administrators was undertaken in an effort to learn of possible relationships between attitudes and the characteristics of facilities.
There is a commonly-held assumption that not only the academic background of an administrator …