Empowering Frail Elderly People: Opportunities and Impediments in Housing, Health, and Support Service Delivery

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• Title Page iii
• Contents vii
• Preface xi
• Part I - Introduction 1
• 1 - Empowerment: Definitions, Applications, Problems, and Prospects 3
• 2 - Opportunities and Impediments in Housing, Health, and Support Service Delivery 25
• Part II - Service Providers and Empowerment: Information, Training, and Coordination 39
• 3 - Promoting Empowerment in Residential Aged Care: Seeking the Consumer View 41
• 4 - Reimagining Senior Empowerment in Service Delivery: Creative Applications in a Global Context 53
• 5 - Retaining and Expanding Empowerment in the Transition from a Family to a Community-Oriented Support System: Japan in the 21st Century 65
• 6 - Empowerment in Post-Reform Community Care in England and Wales 81
• Part III - Environment and Empowerment in Conventional Housing 99
• 7 - Another Way of Living in One’s Own Home: The Salmon Group Projects 101
• 8 - The Role of the Built Environment in Holistic Delivery of Home- and Community-Based Care Services to Frail Elderly Persons 119
• 9 - When Community Planning Becomes Community Building: Place-Based Activism and the Creation of Good Places to Grow Old 137
• Part IV - Client Empowerment in Long-Term Care 153

• Title Page iii
• Contents vii
• Preface xi
• Part I - Introduction 1
• 1 - Empowerment: Definitions, Applications, Problems, and Prospects 3
• 2 - Opportunities and Impediments in Housing, Health, and Support Service Delivery 25
• Part II - Service Providers and Empowerment: Information, Training, and Coordination 39
• 3 - Promoting Empowerment in Residential Aged Care: Seeking the Consumer View 41
• 4 - Reimagining Senior Empowerment in Service Delivery: Creative Applications in a Global Context 53
• 5 - Retaining and Expanding Empowerment in the Transition from a Family to a Community-Oriented Support System: Japan in the 21st Century 65
• 6 - Empowerment in Post-Reform Community Care in England and Wales 81
• Part III - Environment and Empowerment in Conventional Housing 99
• 7 - Another Way of Living in One’s Own Home: The Salmon Group Projects 101
• 8 - The Role of the Built Environment in Holistic Delivery of Home- and Community-Based Care Services to Frail Elderly Persons 119
• 9 - When Community Planning Becomes Community Building: Place-Based Activism and the Creation of Good Places to Grow Old 137
• Part IV - Client Empowerment in Long-Term Care 153
• 10 - The Rights of Elderly People in a Nursing Home—A Little Creativity, a Lot of Respect, a Taste for Adventure, and an Allergy to Bureaucracy 155
• 11 - Bringing Managed Health Care Home: a New Service Strategy for People with Chronic Illnesses and Disabilities 175
• 12 - Elderly Persons with Severe Mental Illness: Empowering a Neglected and Growing Population 191
• 13 - Older People with Longstanding Disabilities and Their Caregivers: Empowering a Neglected and Growing Population 205
• Part V - Overview and the Future 221
• 14 - Empowerment in Pathways through Care: a Cross-National Comparison of Care Delivery Systems in Britain and Germany 223
• 15 - Empowerment of Frail Elderly People and the Vision of a Self-Actualized Society 239
• References 255
• Index 273
• About the Editors and Contributors 279