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Forced to Care
Language: en
Pages: 280
Authors: Evelyn Nakano Glenn
Categories: Education
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-06-15 - Publisher: Harvard University Press

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"Scouring the history of Native American boarding schools, nineteenth-century reformatories, and programs to Americanize immigrants, Glenn brilliantly reveals t
Forced to Care
Language: en
Pages: 271
Authors: Evelyn Nakano Glenn
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-03-05 - Publisher: Harvard University Press

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The United States faces a growing crisis in care. The number of people needing care is growing while the ranks of traditional caregivers have shrunk. The status
Refusing Care
Language: en
Pages: 315
Authors: Elyn R. Saks
Categories: Psychology
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-02-15 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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It has been said that how a society treats its least well-off members speaks volumes about its humanity. If so, our treatment of the mentally ill suggests that
Families Caring for an Aging America
Language: en
Pages: 367
Authors: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Categories: Medical
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-11-08 - Publisher: National Academies Press

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Family caregiving affects millions of Americans every day, in all walks of life. At least 17.7 million individuals in the United States are caregivers of an old
Already Toast
Language: en
Pages: 224
Authors: Kate Washington
Categories: Medical
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-03-16 - Publisher: Beacon Press

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The story of one woman’s struggle to care for her seriously ill husband—and a revealing look at the role unpaid family caregivers play in a society that fai