Oct 23, 2017 · Muriel R. Gillick takes readers on a narrative tour of American health care, incorporating the stories of older patients as they travel from the doctor’s office to the skilled …

Muriel R. Gillick takes readers on a narrative tour of American health care, incorporating the stories of older patients as they travel from the doctor's office to the hospital to the skilled...

Gillick suggests a broadly imagined patient-centered reform of the health care system with Medicare as the engine of change, a transformation that would be mediated through …

Oct 22, 2017 · Old and Sick in America is a book that those of us with elderly relatives, or on Medicare ourselves, need to read." From Sharon Kaufman, author of Ordinary Medicine: …

Oct 23, 2017 · Old and Sick in America: The Journey through the Health Care System (Studies in Social Medicine) [Gillick, Muriel R.] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Old …

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Oct 23, 2017 · With this book, Muriel R. Gillick offers a satisfying balance of insight, compassion, and evidence about the many ways that Medicare has transformed the way older Americans …

Oct 9, 2024 · Nearly 14 million Americans ages 65 and older are expected to be living with dementia by 2060. We’re a much sicker country than our high-income nation peers. There are …

Changes in family structure as well as unprecedented geographic mobility weakened the ability of families to take care of older people after a hospital stay. The growth of mega-corporations …

Limited attention is paid to the gains in later life. Studies among self-defined healthy American-born elderly and ill-healthy British-born older persons, indicated that the perception of health …

Jun 17, 2018 · Getting old is not the same as being ill, and experiencing both at the same time can be challenging. The kind of fatigue from aging includes not having as much energy, not moving …

As I got older and had my own children I would call my mom to get those same remedies when my kids got sick. Now that I am a Childcare provider I find myself passing along those same …

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Old and sick in America : the journey through the health care system by Gillick, Muriel R., 1951- author

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Aug 1, 2019 · Old and Sick in America: The Journey through the Health Care System analyzes how institutional structures and practices affect the elderly patients' functioning and recovery …

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