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| Elderly hospitalized patients' perceptions of the interaction with the social worker during discharge planning | | Author(s) | Goldie Kadushin |
| Journal title | Social Work in Health Care, vol 23, no 1, 1996 |
| Pages | pp 1-21 |
| Keywords | In-patients ; Social workers ; Coordination ; Social interaction ; Discharge ; Planning [admin] ; Social surveys ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | In this US study, 24 older in- patients and their social workers were interviewed regarding their perceptions of the hospital discharge planning process. Half of the clients did not know how they were referred to social work; and 60% did not know what to expect from such contact. Workers and clients agreed on the existence of environmental problems, but were less likely to agree on the existence of intra- and interpersonal problems and interventions. At the end of the contact, some 40% of clients were still confused about the social work role. In spite of these misunderstandings, clients co-operated fully with their social workers, neither challenging them nor asking for additional information. Patients in this study assumed the `good patient' role in interacting with their social workers. |
| Accession Number | CPA-980108265 A |
| Classmark | LF7: QR: QAJ: TMA: QKJ: QA6: 3F: 7T * |
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