Emily K. Abel

Gebundenes Buch

Elder Care in Crisis

How the Social Safety Net Fails Families

Beschreibung

"Drawing partly from an online support group for dementia caregivers, this book demonstrates that this country faces an elder care crisis. Our elder care system rests on the exploitation of workers, mostly women and people of color, who are paid too little to make ends meet and imposes unsustainable burdens on family members"--

Autor

Emily K. Abel is Professor Emeritus at the UCLA-Fielding School of Public Health. She is the author of many books. The most recent are Elder Care in Crisis: How the Social Safety Net Fails Families and Gluten Free for Life: Celiac Disease, Medical Recognition, and the Food Industry, both published by NYU Press. In 2024 she received the Genevieve Miller Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Association for the History of Medicine.

Produktdetails

• Health, Society, and Inequality
• Verlag: New York University Press
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 160mm x 235mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 496g
• ISBN-13: 9781479815388
• ISBN-10: 1479815381
• Artikelnr.: 66408727