Taken for a Ride: Special Residential Homes for Confused Old People - Hardcover

Taken for a Ride

Hardback in Dust Wrapper. Zustand: Good+. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good+. Condition Notes: Edges of DJ somewhat ruffled, several small closed tears with further chips. Peculiar mark to the ffep. Newspaper cutting pasted to reverse of the ½-title page; First edition (first printing). Hardback. Dust wrapper over ; Measures 8¾" x 5½" (0.9 kg); pp 546; Index; Bibliography; Cover art by Edward Gould; The elderly mentally infirm must be one of the largest groups in Britain still awaiting widespread public recognition of their special needs. All too often 'confusion' in old age has been seen as an irreversible dementia. Here the author puts forward the idea, based on depth studies of the social life of six old people's homes, that the 'confused' are in fact reacting logically to the bewilderment of isolation, powerlessness and segregation. || The book is on the shelf, ready to be appropriately packed, and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the book shop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #158574 ||. Artikel-Nr. 158574

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