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Understanding Our Client, The Geriatric Patient *
Author(s) -
HULICKA IRENE M.
Publication year - 1972
Publication title -
journal of the american geriatrics society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.992
H-Index - 232
eISSN - 1532-5415
pISSN - 0002-8614
DOI - 10.1111/j.1532-5415.1972.tb00833.x
Subject(s) - depersonalization , medicine , dependency (uml) , authoritarianism , nursing , emotional exhaustion , burnout , clinical psychology , systems engineering , politics , political science , law , engineering , democracy
The problems of geriatric patients in institutions are discussed. Their basic needs can be classified as physiological, safety and security, affiliation, esteem and self‐actualization. Factors in institutional life which militate against the fulfillment of these needs are depersonalization, biologization, dependency, authoritarianism, staff convenience and staff insensitivity. Recommendations are made for attempts to overcome these negative factors.