Inside Assisted Living: The Search for Home
J. Kevin Eckert, Paula C. Carder, Leslie A. Morgan, , foreword by Bill Thomas, M.D. . Johns Hopkins Univ., $16.95 (246pp) ISBN 978-0-8018-9260-8
The authors—researchers and academics with the Center for Aging Studies at the Erickson School and with the University of Maryland—spent five years studying life in six Baltimore-area assisted-living facilities. These ranged from an eight-resident home owned by two sisters to a 112-person residential-care facility that is part of a for-profit corporation. The book offers excerpts from interviews with residents, family members and staff. While it can illuminate in depth many of the issues in assisted-care living, its primary audience should be readers with a professional or policy interest in care for the aged.
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Reviewed on: 05/11/2009
Genre: Nonfiction
Hardcover - 264 pages - 978-0-8018-9259-2