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- Title
- Influence of ethnicity, relocation, and social integration on the decision to complete an Advance Medical Directive: A survey of Boca Raton retirees.
- Creator
- Frank, Abbott., Florida Atlantic University, Evans, Arthur S., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Sociology
- Abstract/Description
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Research has shown that generally no more than 20% of populations surveyed have completed Advance Medical Directives and that there is a strong ethnic variation in their choice (i.e. Protestants and Whites were more likely to have an Advance Medical Directive than Jews, Catholics, Hispanics, or Blacks). This thesis developed and tested the hypothesis that the use of Advance Medical Directives by Jews would comparably vary inversely with their degree of social integration as measured by their...
Show moreResearch has shown that generally no more than 20% of populations surveyed have completed Advance Medical Directives and that there is a strong ethnic variation in their choice (i.e. Protestants and Whites were more likely to have an Advance Medical Directive than Jews, Catholics, Hispanics, or Blacks). This thesis developed and tested the hypothesis that the use of Advance Medical Directives by Jews would comparably vary inversely with their degree of social integration as measured by their degree of orthodoxy. Survey results confirmed this hypothesis, but more significantly demonstrated that for all samples tested, regardless of religion, 74% of the over-65 respondents had completed an Advance Medical Directive. It is postulated that this high rate of implementation is an effect of the lower degree of social integration of the Boca Raton retirees brought about by a physical relocation to Florida from their former family, residential, and business networks.
Show less - Date Issued
- 1996
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15276
- Subject Headings
- Right to die, Do-not-resuscitate orders, Terminal care--Decision making, Older people--Long-term care, Jews--Florida--Boca Raton--Statistics, Boca Raton (Fla)--Population--Statistics
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Care at Work: A Feminist Analysis of the Long-Term Care Industry in the United States.
- Creator
- Tunick, Rachel, Beoku-Betts, Josephine, Lange, Bernadette, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Center for Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies
- Abstract/Description
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This research provides a feminist perspective on the lowest paid sector of the United States long-term care industry, Certified Nursing Assistants. This research adds to current feminist scholarship on the modern professional caregiving industry by focusing on the perspective of the workers. As the population of older adults requiring care is expected to increase over the coming decades, the demand for paid caregivers will increase as well. Historically, care work was an expected duty done...
Show moreThis research provides a feminist perspective on the lowest paid sector of the United States long-term care industry, Certified Nursing Assistants. This research adds to current feminist scholarship on the modern professional caregiving industry by focusing on the perspective of the workers. As the population of older adults requiring care is expected to increase over the coming decades, the demand for paid caregivers will increase as well. Historically, care work was an expected duty done freely by the women of the family, but today much of the vital intimate caring labor is relegated to paid caregivers. I examine how alternative social, political and economic frameworks can transform United States society’s attitude towards the increasingly relevant issue of caring labor. I argue that incorporating a feminist perspective will be helpful in developing a sustainable model for caring labor that acknowledges the dignity of both patients and their caregivers.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2016
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004801, http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004801
- Subject Headings
- Nurses' aides., Medical personnel-caregiver relationships., Nursing homes--Employees--Attitudes., Feminist theory., Caring--Moral and ethical aspects., Feminism--Political aspects., Long-term care facilities--Administration., Nursing home patients--Care., Older people--Nursing home care.
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- Document (PDF)
