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Home Support Services And The Ecology Of Aging, Abraham Monk
Home Support Services And The Ecology Of Aging, Abraham Monk
The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare
Home support services for the aged are emerging as a primary concern in the Title XX planning proposals put forth by states and localities. This is not surprising when one considers that Title XX guidelines require the setting of priorities among non-cash benefit programs that help insure the individual's self-sufficiency within his or her normal environment.
All services under Title XX must relate to one or more of five objectives for the individual client: economic independence; self care; prevention or remedy of neglect, abuse or other conditions which lead to dependence; intermediate community based care and, as a last resort …
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 …