It Shouldn't Be This Way: The Failure of Long-Term Care

by Robert L. Kane and Joan West

Book Overview

The failure of long-term care is the country's best-kept embarrassing secret. Almost every adult in the United States will either enter a nursing home or have to deal with a parent or other relative who does. Studies show that 40 percent of all adults who live to age sixty-five will enter a nursing home before they die, while even more will use another form of long-term care. Part memoir, part practical guide, part prescription for change, It Shouldn't...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 082651488X
• ISBN13: 9780826514882
• Release Date: May 2005
• Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.4"