Are long-term hospitalized geriatric patients abandoned by their families?

<p>The purpose of this study is twofold: first, to find out to what extent and for what reasons contacts with relatives have been exhausted for long-term geriatric patients in public institutions, and second, whether there is a significant difference in family contacts for the State Hospital patient as compared to the County Hospital patient. Are the reasons for changes in the family contacts basically social-psychological, medical, or economic.</p><p>Such a study of family interaction requires an investigation of (a) living arrangements, family relationships, and socio-economic background prior to the hospitalization; (b) the reasons for hospitalization and the present medical diagnosis; (c) the currents economic situation of the patients and her family; and (d) the distance of the relatives’ residence from the hospital.</p><p>This study attempts to obtain objective evidence in order to find answers to the above questions and to clarify the key issue of whether long-term hospitalized geriatric patients are in fact abandoned by their families.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Arts (M.A.)

Level thesis:degree_level

Thesis

Year dc:date.available

1961

Author dc:creator

• Froehlich, Thea Karola

• Aged Family relationships
• Geriatrics
• Social and Behavioral Sciences

Licence

• http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NKC/1.0/

Repository record dc:identifier

https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/uop_etds/1487

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:scholarlycommons.pacific.edu:uop_etds-2486