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Harris, Diana Koffman was born on August 11, 1929 in Memphis, Tennessee, United States. Daughter of David Nathan and Helen Ethel (Rotter) Koffman.
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As the preface indicates, this sorely needed tool is more than a dictionary. In addition to defining terms specific to gerontology ('circuit breakers,' 'Detroit syndrome') and multidisciplinary terms ('suicide,' 'cholesterol') pertinent to gerontology, in alphabetic order, it provides one to four references for each term. . . . . Highly recommended for upper-division and graduate collections. Choice Because of the different disciplines that gerontology encompasses, the definition it uses can prove bewildering to students, scholars, and practitioners. Diana Harris is the first scholar to deal with this terminology in a comprehensive manner. Reflecting multidisciplinary perspectives and introducing standardization, her dictionary offers hundreds of precisely defined terms and concepts, as well as detailed, up-to-date bibliographic information. Because of the different disciplines that gerontology encompasses, the definitions it uses can prove bewildering to students, scholars, and practitioners. Diana Harris is the first scholar to deal with this terminology in a comprehensive manner. Reflecting multidisciplinary perspectives and introducing standardization, her dictionary offers hundreds of precisely defined terms and concepts, as well as detailed, up-to-date bibliographic information.
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Abuse, although often not detected or reported, existed in every facility we surveyed. It is a serious problem. 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 Theresa. 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. Maltreatment of Patients in Nursing Homes surveys employees, administrators, and family members of patients in 47 nursing homes throughout the United States. Their responses provide invaluable insights on a wide range of topics, including the social and psychological factors that cause different types of abuse, characteristics of nursing home patients and employees, the bureaucracy of nursing homes, victimization rates, workforce issues of nursing home aides, and federal regulations for nursing homes. The information gained from the surveys forms the basis for detailed recommendations for creating a safer environment and reducing all forms of abuse, including theft-prevention training programs, background checks and improved screening of potential employees, education and advocacy for current staff, and the reform of federal regulations. Maltreatment of Patients in Nursing Homes examines: • types of physical abuse (restraints, sexual abuse, neglect) • the who, what, and why of nursing home theft • types of financial abuse (trust accounts, bank accounts, improper charges for services and drugs, identity theft) • types of psychological abuse (abandonment, segregation, childlike treatment, verbal abuse) • effects of psychological abuse (depression, learned helplessness, psychiatric disorders) • reasons for abuse by employees (staff turnover, job burnout, job dissatisfaction, caregiver stress)One of the few books to deal with abuse of the elderly outside a domestic setting, Maltreatment of Patients in Nursing Homes: There Is No Safe Place interprets and analyzes abuse to provide new ways of thinking about this growing problem and new methods of preventing it from growing any more widespread.
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This text provides a comprehensive overview of the sociology of aging, and remains the only book of its kind to approach aging from a purely sociological perspective. This new edition is completely updated throughout, with new chapters that discuss the now immanent retirement of the first of the baby boomers, the new form housing arrangements known as semi-independent or assisted living, elder abuse in nursing homes (and quality issues in nursing homes generally), and the long-term problems facing Medicare and Social Security.
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Harris, Diana Koffman was born on August 11, 1929 in Memphis, Tennessee, United States. Daughter of David Nathan and Helen Ethel (Rotter) Koffman.
Student of University Miami, 1947-1948. Bachelor of Science, University of Wisconsin, 1951. Postgraduate Tulane University, New Orleans, 1951-1952.
Master of Arts, University of Tennessee, 1967.
Postgraduate U. Oxford (England), 1968-1969.
Advertising and sales promotion manager Wallace Johnston Distributing Company, Memphis, 1952-1954. Welfare worker Tennessee Department Public Welfare, Knoxville, 1954-1956. Instructor sociology Maryville (Tennessee) College, 1972-1975.
Instructor sociology Fort Sanders School Nursing, Knoxville, 1971-1978.
Instructor sociology University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 1967. Series editor Garland Public, Incorporated.
1989. Chairman University of Tennessee Council on Aging, 1979.
Organizer Knoxville chapter Gray Panthers, 1978. Member Government"son Task Force on Preretirement Programs for State Employers, 1973.
Member White HouseConf. on Aging, 1981. Board member Knoxville-Knox County Council on Aging, 1976, Senior Citizens Information and Referral, 1979, Senior Citizens Home-Aide Svc., 1977.
Delegate East. Tennessee Council on Aging, 1977.
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Chairman University Tennessee Council on Aging, since 1979. Organizer Knoxville chapter Gray Panthers, 1978. Member Govnr.'s Task Force on Preretirement Programs for State Employers, 1973, White House Conference on Aging, 1981.
Board member Knoxville-Knox County Council on Aging, 1976, Senior Citizens Information and Referral, 1979, Senior Citizens Home-Aide Service, 1977. Delegate E. Tennessee Council on Aging, 1977. Member American Sociological Association, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Gerontological Society of America, Popular Culture Association, Southern Sociological Society, Southern Gerontological Society (president's award 1984), North Central Sociological Association, London Competitor's Club, National Contest Association, Knoxville Kontestars.
Married Lawrence A. Harris, June 24, 1951. Children: Marla, Jennifer.