Counting on Kindness : The Dilemmas of Dependency

Wendy Lustbader

ISBN 10: 0029195160 / ISBN 13: 9780029195161

Editore: Free Press, 1993

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nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - Seattle mental health counselor Lustbader here compells attention to and sympathy for those who must rely on caregivers for their needs. Stories are related by patients themselves. From incapacitated men and women we learn of the humiliations caused by the loss of autonomy, of the frustrations at not being able to manage on one's own. Accounts from widely different sorts of patients and those who begrudgingly or willingly see to their care provide graphic lessons in sensitivity.

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• Titolo: Counting on Kindness : The Dilemmas of Dependency
• Editore: Free Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 1993
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0029195160
• ISBN 13: 9780029195161
• Rilegatura: Taschenbuch
• Condizione: Neu

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Seattle mental health counselor Lustbader here compells attention to and sympathy for those who must rely on caregivers for their needs. Stories are related by patients themselves. From incapacitated men and women we learn of the humiliations caused by the loss of autonomy, of the frustrations at not being able to manage on one's own. Accounts from widely different sorts of patients and those who begrudgingly or willingly see to their care provide graphic lessons in sensitivity.

Informazioni sull?autore

 Wendy Lustbader, MSW, is the author of several books and essays that have earned her a national reputation in the field of aging. She is a skilled psychotherapist, a popular speaker throughout North America, and an Affiliate Associate Professor at the University of Washington Seattle School of Social Work.