Congress (and evaluators) ought to pay more attention to history
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11053294 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Murray Levine (State University of New York Buffalo, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1979 |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1-17 |
| Publication date | 1979-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Journal of Community Psychology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0091-0562 • E-ISSN: 1573-2770 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1007/bf00893159 |
| PMID | 377950 |
| OpenAlex | W1971292150 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 12 |
| References cited | 15 |
In 1935, in 1965, and in 1972, the original Social Security Act and amendments to it were used by states to deinstitutionalize. In each instance a private, profit-making nursing home and board and care industry was stimulated. Poor care in such facilities was an unintended consequence of the legislation. Neither the Congress nor evaluators have clear concepts of what constitutes a life of decency and dignity for the chronically dependent. Behaviorally oriented social scientists and legislators have in common the difficulty of dealing with soft variables such as decency and dignity. In the absence of clear goals, care drifts below a lower threshold of acceptability and is corrected to some extent following public scandal. Social scientists need to learn to develop concepts and measurements suitable to monitoring the implementation of humane ideals
Citation · Convention · History of psychology · Library science · Media studies · Political science · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · State (computer science) · Wife · Computer Science · History · Law · Psychology · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies
Investigative reporting as a research method
Policy research
Nursing home care for mental patients
Criteria for success in deinstitutionalization
The social context of Hong Kong's booming elderly home industry
An analysis of mutual assistance
Dimensional analysis of behavior setting demands in a community residence for chronically mentally ill women
Community psychology and feminism
A community training model incorporating history, empowerment, and ecology
After Deinstitutionalization
Policies of Inclusion and the Mentally Ill
Nuke the nanny state
Why survive?
The formative years of social security
The discovery of the asylum
The Formative Years of Social Security
The Struggle for Social Security, 1900–1935
Social Insecurity
The Struggle for Social Security, 1900-1935
Nursing Homes and Public Policy
Problems of an Aging Population
The Mentally Ill in America
Unexpected consequences of deinstitutionalization of the mentally disabled elderly
| Unique citing works | 12 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,26 |
| Citation span | 1980 - 2011 (32) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 10 |