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Title:

Dignity in care for older people / edited by Lennart Nordenfelt.

Publisher:

Wiley-Blackwell,

Copyright Date:

2009

Description:

xix, 212 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Older people--Medical care.
Dignity.
Quality of life.
Geriatrics--ethics.
Health Services for the Aged--ethics.
Aged--psychology.
Personal Autonomy.
Quality of Life.

Other Authors:

Nordenfelt, Lennart, 1945-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Health, autonomy, and quality of life : some basic concepts in the theory of health care and the care of older people / Lennart Nordenfelt -- The concept of dignity / Lennart Nordenfelt -- Being body : the dignity of human embodiment / Jennifer Bullington -- Dignity and dementia : an analysis of dignity of identity and dignity work in a small residential home / Magnus Öhlander -- Dignity and older spouses with dementia / Ingrid Hellström -- Caring for older people : why dignity matters : the European experience / Win Tadd and Michael Calnan -- A dignified death and identity-promoting care / Britt-Marie Ternestedt -- Dignity and the dead / Göran Lantz -- Dignity as an object of empirical study : experiences from two research programmes / Lennart Nordenfelt.

ISBN:

140518342X (pbk. : alk. paper)
9781405183420 (pbk. : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)288932857

LCCN:

2008053121

Locations:

UQAX771 -- Des Moines Area Community College Library - Ankeny (Carroll)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)