Health & Fitness Health Care Issues
End of the Line
Inside Canada's Nursing Homes
- Publisher
- James Lorimer & Company Ltd., Publishers
- Initial publish date
- Jan 1989
- Category
- Health Care Issues, Death & Dying
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781550282900
- Publish Date
- Jan 1989
- List Price
- $16.95
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9781550282924
- Publish Date
- Jan 1989
- List Price
- $45.00
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781552771501
- Publish Date
- Feb 2008
- List Price
- $45.00
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Description
Canada has one of the highest rates of institutionalization of elderly people in the world. As the population ages, the number of elderly Canadians in nursing homes will grow by leaps and bounds.
In End of the Line, Maria Bohuslawsky offers a detailed look at Canada's nursing homes, focusing both on the institutions themselves and on the people inside them. Through sketches of nursing-home residents and their families, as well as nursing-home staff, she paints a picture of the homes that leaves nothing unexplored.
First published in 1989, End of the Line remains a timely and provocative examination of the quality of care experienced by senior citizens in Canada's nursing homes.
About the author
MARIA BOHUSLAWSKY has been a reporter with the Toronto Sun, the Winnipeg Free Press and the Ottawa Citizen.