Michael L. Benson is Professor of Criminal Justice at the University of Cincinnati in Ohio.The authors examine the dark side of nursing homes, where commitment can fail to the extent of patients being subjected to mistreatment. They apply criminological theory to help develop practical methods of controlling abuse.Old, weak, and often cognitively impaired, nursing home patients can be easy targets for physical, psychological, material, and financial mistreatment at the hands of those entrusted with their care, safety, and well-being. Maltreatment of Patients in Nursing Homes: There Is No Safe Place examines the dark side of nursing homes, where not every employee has the commitment of Mother Teresa. This groundbreaking book applies criminological theory to help develop practical methods of controlling abuse and presents the results of the first and only nationwide study on the theft of patients' belongings, a form of abuse too often ignored by the nursing home industry. Book jacket.Old, weak, and often cognitively impaired, nursing home patients can be easy targets for physical, psychological, material, and financial mistreatment at the hands of those entrusted with their care, safety, and well-being. This groundbreaking book examines the dark side of nursing homes, where not every employee has the commitment of Mother Teresa. It applies criminological theory to help develop practical methods of controlling abuse and presents the results of the first and only nationwide study on the theft of patients' belongings, a form of abuse too often ignored by the nursing home industry.
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