Description
Book Synopsis, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health; Rick Surpin, Independence Care System.
Trade ReviewThis text would be helpful for teaching students in medicine, nursing, social work, and health care administration. -- Tina Kenyon, ACSW Family Medicine 2005 This book can be recommended to family caregivers, health care staff, and policy-makers-as well as to those teaching courses in health care, policy, and gerontology. -- Anne P. Glass Journal of Women and Aging 2006 A must read for those who are planning to work in the healthcare field and for those currently employed in it. -- Molly Ranney Journal of Women and Aging 2005 A well-researched and fascinating historical recount of the cultural differences between the family members, health professionals and policy makers... Recommended background reading for geriatric care managers and professionals seeking policy changes in caregiving. -- Kathleen Wall Inside GCM 2005 Editors Levine and Murray and their contributors demonstrate a broad understanding of the culture of caregiving and families. Choice 2005 The collaboration and talents brought together to write this book are phenomenal... This book should be considered an instrument in building and solidifying the bridge between caregivers and the medical community. -- David Sigel Baylor University Medical Center Proceedings 2005 Levine and Murray have taken us beyond complaining about conflicts and problems in providing healthcare across the cultural divide. Instead, they offer insights, knowledge, and, most important, direction for creating remedies to problems. -- Peggy Dilworth-Anderson, Ph.D. JAMA A well-written and thought-provoking book written by professionals in the health care industry, some who are family caregivers themselves. Family Caregiver Alliance The Cultures of Caregiving: Conflict and Common Ground among Families, Health Professionals, and Policy Makers is a well-crafted book. -- Fahmida Hussain Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved
Table of ContentsList of Contributors
Foreword
Preface
Introduction: Caregiving as a Family Affair: A New Perspective on Cultural Diversity
Part I: Perspectives on Family Caregiving: Data, Diversity, and Personal Experience
Chapter 1. Family Caregivers and the Health Care System: Findings from a National Survey
Chapter 2. On Loving Care and the Persistence of Memories: Reflections of a Grieving Daughter
Chapter 3. The Weight of Shared Lives: Truth Telling and Family Caregiving
Part II: Home Care Past and Present
Chapter 4. Family Caregiving in New England: Nineteenth-Century Community Care Gives Way to Twentieth-Century Institutions
Chapter 5. Nurses and Their Changing Relationships to Family Caregivers
Chapter 6. The Culture of Home Care: Whose Values Prevail?
Part III: The Societal Context
Chapter 7. Explaining the Paradox of Long-Term Care Policy: An Example of Dissonant Cultures
Chapter 8. Family Caregivers in Popular Culture: Images and Reality in the Movies
Part IV: Bridging the Gap among Cultures
Chapter 9. Integrating Medicine and the Family: Toward a Coherent Ethic of Care
Chapter 10. Project DOCC: A Parent-Directed Model for Educating Pediatric Residents
Chapter 11. Changing Institutional Culture: Turning Adversaries into Partners
Conclusion: Building on Common Ground
Index
