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1. A Place to Die: Nursing Home Abuse and the Political Economy of the 1970s.

Author

Winant, Gabriel

Subjects
SOCIOECONOMICS, ABUSE of nursing home patients, HOSPITALS, HEALTH policy, NURSING home care, SALARIES of hospital personnel, LONG-term care of older people, NEW Deal, 1933-1939, TWENTIETH century, ECONOMICS, HISTORY
Abstract

The article discusses a socioeconomic change in America in the 1970s in relation to the issue of nursing home abuse and a patient abuse-related scandal involving the John J. Kane Hospital in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. The economic aspects of U.S. health care policy are addressed, along with deindustrialization, long-term care for older Americans, and America's New Deal government policies. Social rights and hospital wages in the U.S. are assessed.

Published
2018
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