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Aggression Replacement Training®: A Comprehensive Intervention for Aggressive Youth
by Barry Glick John C. GibbsThis is a newly-revised and expanded edition of the groundbreaking program originally developed by Dr. Arnold P. Goldstein and Dr. Barry Glick. Aggression Replacement Training ART offers a powerful intervention for teaching at-risk youth to understand and replace aggression and antisocial behavior with positive alternatives. <p><p>Includes user-friendly session-by-session guidelines for implementation. The book provides a coordinated, three-part training approach: Prosocial Skills, Anger Control and Moral Reasoning for grades 6 to 12. The authors address trainee motivation and resistance, enhancing performance generalization, and recent applications in schools and other settings. Appendixes include guidelines, checklists, moral reasoning problem situations, and summaries of outcome evaluations.
The Ages of the World (SUNY series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy)
by F. W. SchellingIn 1810, after establishing a reputation as Europe's most prolific philosopher, F. W. J. Schelling embarked on his most ambitious project, The Ages of the World. For over a decade he produced multiple drafts of the work before finally conceding its failure, a "failure" in which Heidegger, Jaspers, Voegelin, and many others have discerned a pivotal moment in the history of philosophy. Slavoj Žižek calls this text the "vanishing mediator," the project that, even while withheld and concealed from view, connects the epoch of classical metaphysics that stretches from Plato to Hegel with the post-metaphysical thinking that began with Marx and Kierkegaard. Although drafts of the second and third versions from 1813 and 1815 have long been available in English, this translation by Joseph P. Lawrence is the first of the initial 1811 text. In his introductory essay, Lawrence argues for the importance of this first version of the work as the one that reveals the full sweep of Schelling's intended project, and he explains its significance for concerns in modern science, history, and religion.
Agents of Flourishing: Pursuing Shalom in Every Corner of Society (Made to Flourish Resources)
by Amy L. ShermanGod calls Christians to participate in his redemptive mission in every sphere of life.
Agents of Change: Political Philosophy in Practice
by Ben LaurenceAn incisive argument for the relevance of political philosophy and its possibility of effecting change. The appeal of political philosophy is that it will answer questions about justice for the sake of political action. But contemporary political philosophy struggles to live up to this promise. Since the death of John Rawls, political philosophers have become absorbed in methodological debates, leading to an impasse between two unattractive tendencies: utopians argue that philosophy should focus uncompromisingly on abstract questions of justice, while pragmatists argue that we should concern ourselves only with local efforts to ameliorate injustice. Agents of Change shows a way forward. Ben Laurence argues that we can combine utopian justice and the pragmatic response to injustice in a political philosophy that unifies theory and practice in pursuit of change. Political philosophy, on this view, is not a purely normative theory disconnected from practice. Rather, political philosophy is itself a practice—an exercise of practical reason issuing in action. Laurence contends that this exercise begins in ordinary life with the confrontation with injustice. Philosophy draws ideas about justice from this encounter to be pursued through political action. Laurence shows that the task of political philosophy is not complete until it asks the question “What is to be done?” and deliberates actionable answers.
Agents and Artificial Intelligence: 9th International Conference, ICAART 2017, Porto, Portugal, February 24–26, 2017, Revised Selected Papers (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #10839)
by Jaap van den Herik Ana Paula Rocha Joaquim FilipeThis book contains the revised and extended versions of selected papers from the 9th International Conference, ICAART 2017, held in Porto, Portugal, in February 24-26, 2017.The 11 full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 158 initial submissions. The papers are organized in two tracks. The first focuses on agents, multi-agent systems, software platforms, distributed problem solving and distributed AI in general. The second track focuses mainly on artificial intelligence, knowledge representation, planning, learning, scheduling, perception, reactive AI systems, evolutionary computing, and other topics related to intelligent systems and computer intelligence.
Agentes Secretos De Bondad: Como Pequenos Actos de Bondad Realmente Pueden Cambiar Al Mundo
by Ferial PearsonFerial Pearson nació y fue criada en Nairobi, Kenya. Es la mayor de cuatro hijas y la primera en su familia directa en ir a la universidad. Después de graduarse del Colegio Poponi en 1997, dejó África para asistir a Gustavus Adolphus College en St Peter, Minnesota, donde en 2001 obtuvo su licenciatura en Enseñanza de Literatura de Artes de la comunicación, y donde conoció a su esposo, Daniel. Se le ofreció la oportunidad de enseñar en el Distrito Escolar Público de Omaha en South High School ese otoño, donde enseñó inglés y lectura. Durante su tiempo allí, también se desempeñó como patrocinadora del Gay-Straight Alliance y Unity Club, y recibió premios nacionales por su trabajo con los estudiantes y la comunidad. Estos incluyen el Premio Virginia Uribe de la Asociación Nacional de Educación por el Liderazgo Creativo en Derechos Humanos en 2012, el Premio al Educador del Año de la Cadena Educativa de Gays, Lesbianas, Heterosexuales (GLSEN por sus siglas en inglés) en 2011, y fue representante de Nebraska y finalistas del Consejo Nacional de Maestros de Inglés Académico Premio a la Libertad en 2012. Localmente, ha sido galardonada con el Premio de Relaciones Humanas de la Asociación Educativa Omaha 2011, el Premio Profesional Prometedor 2012 de la Universidad de Nebraska en Omaha, y el Premio Anti-Intimidación 2011 de RESPECT y un Premio TOYO (Diez Jóvenes Omahans Sobresalientes) en 2014. También obtuvo su maestría en Currículo e Instrucción con un Certificado de Posgrado en Instrucción Urbana de la Universidad de Nebraska en Omaha en 2009. Ferial dejó Omaha South High School para trabajar como Asesora de Talento para la Fundación Avenue Scholars y enseñó para ellos en Ralston High School durante dos años hasta 2013, tiempo durante el cual creó su proyecto Secret Kindness Agents, que se convirtió en el tema de un libro, un TEDx Talk, y fue el foco de su disertación. Actualmente es Profesora Asistente en la Universidad de Nebraska en Omaha en el Departamento de Educación de Maestros. En 2016, recibió el premio Stephen Sondheim Inspirational Teacher del Centro Kennedy. En 2017, ella recibió su Ed. D. en Liderazgo Educativo. Ella vive en Ralston, Nebraska con su esposo Daniel, su hijo Ilahi y su hija Iman.
Agent_Zero: Toward Neurocognitive Foundations for Generative Social Science (Princeton Studies in Complexity #25)
by Joshua M. EpsteinThe Final Volume of the Groundbreaking Trilogy on Agent-Based ModelingIn this pioneering synthesis, Joshua Epstein introduces a new theoretical entity: Agent_Zero. This software individual, or "agent," is endowed with distinct emotional/affective, cognitive/deliberative, and social modules. Grounded in contemporary neuroscience, these internal components interact to generate observed, often far-from-rational, individual behavior. When multiple agents of this new type move and interact spatially, they collectively generate an astonishing range of dynamics spanning the fields of social conflict, psychology, public health, law, network science, and economics.Epstein weaves a computational tapestry with threads from Plato, Hume, Darwin, Pavlov, Smith, Tolstoy, Marx, James, and Dostoevsky, among others. This transformative synthesis of social philosophy, cognitive neuroscience, and agent-based modeling will fascinate scholars and students of every stripe. Epstein's computer programs are provided in the book or on its Princeton University Press website, along with movies of his "computational parables.?Agent_Zero is a signal departure in what it includes (e.g., a new synthesis of neurally grounded internal modules), what it eschews (e.g., standard behavioral imitation), the phenomena it generates (from genocide to financial panic), and the modeling arsenal it offers the scientific community. For generative social science, Agent_Zero presents a groundbreaking vision and the tools to realize it.
Agent Relative Ethics (Routledge Studies in Ethics and Moral Theory)
by Steven J JensenAgent Relative Ethics asks what the world would look like if we adopted agent relativity wholeheartedly, clinging to no shred of absolute morality. Alastair MacIntyre’s haunting image of a post-apocalyptic world, in which our knowledge of ethics has been fragmented, poses a contrast between modern morality and ancient ethics. The two stand divided along the fault line of the nature of the good. Modern ethics has placed its stake in the absolute good, while ancient ethics rests upon the foundation of the relative good. Following the lead of Bernard Williams, Agent Relative Ethics identifies alienation as a disturbing symptom of the present focus upon absolute goods. It then completes the diagnosis of the malady afflicting modern moral theory by clarifying the difference between absolute and relative goods. The remainder of the book explores how agent relativity can overcome the modern fragmentation of our ethical knowledge. Not just any relative goods can rectify the modern disorder. Only shared goods, belonging to a union of individuals, are sufficiently robust to overthrow the contemporary despotism of neutral goods. These shared goods exhibit many parallels with common sense morality, including partiality, impartiality, punishment, and an antagonism toward harmfully using others together with a more lenient attitude toward foreseeing harm. The final chapters probe the conditions, often unpalatable to the modern mind, by which ethics might be restored. Agent Relative Ethics will be of interest to scholars and advanced students working in ethics and moral theory, ancient ethics, and the history of philosophy.
Agent-Oriented Software Engineering: Reflections on Architectures, Methodologies, Languages, and Frameworks
by Onn Shehory Arnon SturmWith this book, Onn Shehory and Arnon Sturm, together with further contributors, introduce the reader to various facets of agent-oriented software engineering (AOSE). They provide a selected collection of state-of-the-art findings, which combines research from information systems, artificial intelligence, distributed systems and software engineering and covers essential development aspects of agent-based systems. The book chapters are organized into five parts. The first part introduces the AOSE domain in general, including introduction to agents and the peculiarities of software engineering for developing MAS. The second part describes general aspects of AOSE, like architectural models, design patterns and communication. Next, part three discusses AOSE methodologies and associated research directions and elaborates on Prometheus, O-MaSE and INGENIAS. Part four then addresses agent-oriented programming languages. Finally, the fifth part presents studies related to the implementation of agents and multi-agent systems. The book not only provides a comprehensive review of design approaches for specifying agent-based systems, but also covers implementation aspects such as communication, standards and tools and environments for developing agent-based systems. It is thus of interest to researchers, practitioners and students who are interested in exploring the agent paradigm for developing software systems.
Agent Orange: The Failure of Science, Policy and Common Sense (Studies in History and Philosophy of Science #58)
by Alvin L. YoungThis book tells the story of Agent Orange, its usage and the policies that surround it. Agent Orange contains a contaminant known as TCDD. It was the most widely used defoliant from 1965 – 1970 and became one of three major tactical herbicides used in Vietnam. More than 45 major health studies were conducted with Vietnam veterans from the United States, Australia, New Zealand, and Korea seeking a relationship between veterans’ health and TCDD. Allegations of birth defects in the families of Vietnam veterans and the Vietnamese represented a case study in propaganda and deliberate misinformation by the government of Vietnam. The Policies of the US Government implemented by Congress and the Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA) identified 17 recognized associated presumptive diseases that failed the tests of “cause and effect” and common sense. This book tells the story of Agent Orange, its usage, the health studies and those policies from a diverse range of perspectives, delving into science, statistics, history, policy and ethics. It is of interest to scholars engaged in history, political and social philosophy and ethics.
Agent-Centered Morality: An Aristotelian Alternative to Kantian Internalism
by George W. HarrisWhat kinds of persons do we aspire to be, and how do our aspirations fit with our ideas of rationality? In Agent-Centered Morality, George Harris argues that most of us aspire to a certain sort of integrity: We wish to be respectful of and sympathetic to others, and to be loving parents, friends, and members of our communities. Against a prevailing Kantian consensus, Harris offers an Aristotelian view of the problems presented by practical reason, problems of integrating all our concerns into a coherent, meaningful life in a way that preserves our integrity. The task of solving these problems is "the integration test." Systematically addressing the work of major Kantian thinkers, Harris shows that even the most advanced contemporary versions of the Kantian view fail to integrate all of the values that correspond to what we call a moral life. By demonstrating how the meaning of life and practical reason are internally related, he constructs from Aristotle's thought a conceptual scheme that successfully integrates all the characteristics that make a life meaningful, without jeopardizing the place of any. Harris's elucidation of this approach is a major contribution to debates on human agency, practical reason, and morality.
Agent-Based Modelling of Worker Exploitation: Slave from the Machine (Frontiers in Sociology and Social Research #5)
by Thomas ChesneyThis book illustrates the potential for computer simulation in the study of modern slavery and worker abuse, and by extension in all social issues. It lays out a philosophy of how agent-based modelling can be used in the social sciences. In addressing modern slavery, Chesney considers precarious work that is vulnerable to abuse, like sweat-shop labour and prostitution, and shows how agent modelling can be used to study, understand and fight abuse in these areas. He explores the philosophy, application and practice of agent modelling through the popular and free software NetLogo. This topical book is grounded in the technology needed to address the messy, chaotic, real world problems that humanity faces—in this case the serious problem of abuse at work—but equally in the social sciences which are needed to avoid the unintended consequences inherent to human responses. It includes a short but extensive NetLogo guide which readers can use to quickly learn this software and go on to develop complex models. This is an important book for students and researchers of computational social science and others interested in agent-based modelling.
Agent, Action, and Reason
by R. N. Bronaugh Robert W. Binkley Ausonio MarrasThis volume contains the papers and commentaries presented at the fourth philosophy colloquium at the University of Western Ontario in November 1968. The papers examine, from different points of view, the central problems in the philosophy of action. They include: "Agency" by Donald Davidson with comments by James Cornman; "On the Logic on International Action" by Roderick Chisholm with comments by Bruce Aune and a reply by Roderick Chisholm; "Wanting: Some Pitfalls" by R.M. Hare with comments by David Gauthier and D.F. Pears; "Two Problems about Reasons for Actions" by D.F. Pears with comments by Irving Thalberg. Also included is an extensive bibliography of recent work in the philosophy of action. The contributors are all well known for their work in this branch of philosophy; their papers present a cross section of the best work being done in the area at the present time.
Agenda 2030 – Bildung: Wertevermittlung und Werteorientierung (essentials)
by Heiko HerwaldDie Agenda 2030 hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, eine Welt ohne Armut, Hunger und Krankheit zu schaffen und dafür zu sorgen, dass jeder Mensch ein Leben frei von Furcht und ohne Unterdrückung führen kann. Um dies zu erreichen, muss jeder Mensch auch ein Recht auf Bildung haben. Ganzheitliche Bildungskonzepte sind hierbei von großer Bedeutung, da mit ihnen ein Umdenken zu einer nachhaltigen Lebensweise in allen Gesellschaftsbereichen erzielt werden kann. Denn ohne eine breite Unterstützung in der Bevölkerung können die Ziele der Agenda 2030 nicht umgesetzt werden. Eine weitere Aufgabe von Bildung ist es, soziale Klassenunterschiede abzubauen. Nach wie vor ist es in vielen Ländern aufgrund von fehlenden Ausbildungsmöglichkeiten nicht möglich, gesellschaftliche Klassenunterschiede zu überwinden. Im vierten der siebzehn Agenda 2030 Nachhaltigkeitsziele spielt das Thema Bildung eine zentrale Rolle. Es wird unter anderen gefordert, flächendeckend Bildungseinrichtungen zu schaffen, damit bis 2030 allen Menschen Zugang zu einer gleichberechtigten und hochwertigen Bildung gewährleistet werden kann.
Agenda 2030 – Armut: Die Einhaltung der Nachhaltigkeitsziele in der medizinischen Versorgung (essentials)
by Heiko HerwaldIn diesem essential werden die aktuellen Probleme der Agenda 2030 zur Umsetzung der Nachhaltigkeitsziele im Bereich Gesundheit erläutert. Das weltweite Aufkommen von Zivilisationskrankheiten und die explodierenden Kosten in der medizinischen Versorgung stellen die Weltgemeinschaft in Zeiten von Corona und Krieg vor große Herausforderungen. Um einen weiteren Rückschritt in der globalen Gesundheitsversorgung zu vermeiden, müssen gemeinsame und nachhaltige Lösungen gefunden werden. Hierzu müssen Stakeholder aus allen Sektoren, öffentlichen wie privaten sowie nationalen als auch internationalen, in die Verantwortung genommen werden.
Agency, Pregnancy and Persons: Essays in Defense of Human Life (Routledge Annals of Bioethics)
by Nicholas Colgrove Bruce P. Blackshaw Daniel RodgerThis book provides extensive and critical engagement with some of the most recent and compelling arguments favoring abortion choice. It features original essays from leading and emerging philosophers, bioethicists and medical professionals that present philosophically sophisticated and novel arguments against abortion choice. The chapters in this book are divided into three thematic sections. The first set of essays focuses primarily on unborn human individuals—zygotes, embryos and fetuses. In these chapters it is argued, for example, that human organisms begin to exist at conception and that zygotes, embryos and fetuses are persons. These chapters also explore questions about whether or not zygotes, embryos and fetuses are part of their mothers’ bodies. The second set of essays focuses primarily on elective abortion and the debates surrounding it. These chapters consider whether or not opponents of abortion are commonly hypocritical, how opponents of abortion should think about adoption, how emerging technologies may affect the current debate and whether or not those participating in the debate should rely on analogies to support their case. Finally, the third set of essays shifts focus from the legal and moral status of elective abortion to its place in medical practice. In these chapters it is argued that elective abortion embodies a kind of ableism, and that elective abortion is medically unnecessary, harmful to women’s mental health and that telemedicine abortion poses significant risks to women’s health. Agency, Pregnancy and Persons offers an up-to-date examination of unborn human beings, the debates surrounding elective abortion and the place of elective abortion within medical practice. It will be of interest to medical professionals and those who work in philosophy, bioethics and medical ethics alike.
Agency, Norms, Inquiry, and Artifacts: Essays in Honor of Risto Hilpinen (Synthese Library #454)
by Paul McNamara Andrew J. I. Jones Mark A. BrownThe book contains a collection of chapters written by experts from the fields of philosophy, law, logic, computer science and artificial intelligence who pay tribute to Professor Risto Hilpinen's impressive work on the logic of induction, on deontic logic and epistemology, and on philosophy of science.In addition to an introduction by the editors, a section on Professor Hilpinen’s positions, professional services and honors, as well as a complete bibliography of his writings, the editors, McNamara, Jones and Brown, have compiled a multidisciplinary global cross-section of academic contemporaries that provides insights and perspectives on Hilpinen's influence and legacy.The essays reflect central aspects of Risto Hilpinen's research interests, and offer further contributions to some of the philosophical fields for which he is best known: applied modal logic, including deontic logic (from the ancient Greek δέον déon, pertaining to the concepts of duty and obligation), the semantics of normative language, the logic of action, and the theory of practical reasoning; the analysis of the concept of artifact; and the theory of semiotics in the tradition of Charles Peirce. The presence in the collection of several papers relating to deontic logic underlines Hilpinen's importance in that area, in which his publications have long been recognized as standard works. The book is an essential collection of ideas for all those who feel at home in a variety of formal disciplines, from propositional logic to the logic of artificial intelligence.
Agency in Transnational Memory Politics (Worlds of Memory #4)
by Jenny Wüstenberg and Aline SierpThe dynamics of transnational memory play a central role in modern politics, from postsocialist efforts at transitional justice to the global legacies of colonialism. Yet, the relatively young subfield of transnational memory studies remains underdeveloped and fractured across numerous disciplines, even as nascent, boundary-crossing theories on topics such as multi-vocal, traveling, or entangled remembrance suggest new ways of negotiating difficult political questions. This volume brings together theoretical and practical considerations to provide transnational memory scholars with an interdisciplinary investigation into agency—the “who” and the “how” of cross-border commemoration that motivates activists and fascinates observers.
Agency in Transnational Memory Politics (Worlds of Memory #4)
by Jenny Wüstenberg and Aline SierpThe dynamics of transnational memory play a central role in modern politics, from postsocialist efforts at transitional justice to the global legacies of colonialism. Yet, the relatively young subfield of transnational memory studies remains underdeveloped and fractured across numerous disciplines, even as nascent, boundary-crossing theories on topics such as multi-vocal, traveling, or entangled remembrance suggest new ways of negotiating difficult political questions. This volume brings together theoretical and practical considerations to provide transnational memory scholars with an interdisciplinary investigation into agency—the “who” and the “how” of cross-border commemoration that motivates activists and fascinates observers.
Agency, Freedom, and Moral Responsibility
by Sergi Rosell Carlos Moya Andrei BuckareffIn recent years there has been a resurgence of interest in problems related to human agency and responsibility by philosophers and researchers in cognate disciplines. The present volume brings together original contributions by leading specialists working in this vital field of philosophical inquiry. The contents represent the state of the art of philosophical research on intentional agency, free will, and moral responsibility. The volume begins with chapters on the metaphysics of agency and moves to chapters examining various problems of luck. The final two sections have a normative focus, with the first of the two containing chapters examining issues related to responsible agency and blame and the chapters in the final section examine responsibility and relationships. This book will be of interest to researchers and students interested in both metaphysical and normative issues related to human agency.
Agency, Freedom and Choice (Theory and Decision Library A: #53)
by Constanze BinderIn this book, Binder shows that at the heart of the most prominent arguments in favour of value-neutral approaches to overall freedom lies the value freedom has for human agency and development. Far from leading to the adoption of a value-neutral approach, however, ascribing importance to freedom’s agency value requires one to adopt a refined value-based approach. Binder employs an axiomatic framework in order to develop such an approach. She shows that a focus on freedom’s agency value has far reaching consequences for existing results in the freedom ranking literature: it requires one to move beyond a person’s given all-things-considered preferences to the values underlying a person’s preference formation. Furthermore, it requires, as Binder argues, one to account (only) for those differences between choice options which really matter to people. Binder illustrates the implications of her analysis for the evaluation of public policy and human development with the capability approach: only if sufficient importance is ascribed to freedom’s agency value can the capability approach keep its promises.
Agency Construction and Navigation in English Learning Stories
by Qiuming LinThis book presents a longitudinal research which covers a linguistic approach to understand and observe language learner agency. It makes connections between agency in discourse analyses and agency in applied linguistics by examining how learner agency is manifested in autobiographic oral narratives and influenced by contextual factors. This book also demonstrates that agency is not a fixed entity that English learners possess, but a dynamic construct constantly negotiated by the learners with the social world. It is the result of their identity positioning and repositioning within a complex and ever-changing context. Learner identities, either actual or imagined, are significantly correlated with their investment in English and their English learning process.This book sheds new light on teaching English as a foreign language and gives inspirations for enhancing English learners’ agency in contemporary context of China. As learner agency should be treated in a dynamic and process view, a low level of agency manifested in a particular period or in a certain context may not necessarily persist in later periods or extend to other contexts. Provided with supportive contextual conditions and taking on positive and powerful identities, language learners are well on the course for higher levels of agency.
Agency And Responsiblity: Essays On The Metaphysics Of Freedom
by Laura EkstromA companion volume to Free Will: A Philosophical Study, this new anthology collects influential essays on free will, including both well-known contemporary classics and exciting recent work. Agency and Responsibility: Essays on the Metaphysics of Freedom is divided into three parts. The essays in the first section address metaphysical issues concerning free will and causal determinism. The second section groups papers presenting a positive account of the nature of free action, including competing compatibilist and incompatibilist analyses. The third section concerns free will and moral responsibility, including theories of moral responsibility and the challenge to an alternative possibilities condition posed by Frankurt-type scenarios. Distinguished by its balance and consistently high quality, the volume presents papers selected for their significance, innovation, and clarity of expression. Contributors include Harry Frankfurt, Peter van Inwagen, David Lewis, Elizabeth Anscombe, John Martin Fischer, Michael Bratman, Roderick Chisholm, Robert Kane, Peter Strawson, and Susan Wolf. The anthology serves as an up-to-date resource for scholars as well as a useful text for courses in ethics, philosophy of religion, or metaphysics. In addition, paired with Free Will: A Philosophical Study, it would form an excellent upper-level undergraduate or graduate-level course in free will, responsibility, motivation, or action theory.
Agency and Causal Explanation in Economics (Virtues and Economics #5)
by László Zsolnai Peter RónaThis open access book provides an exploration of the consequences of the ontological differences between natural and social objects (sometimes described as objects of nature and objects of thought) in the workings of causal and agency relationships. One of its important and possibly original conclusions is that causal and agency relationships do not encompass all of the dependent relationships encountered in social life. The idea that social reality is contingent has been known (and largely undisputed) at least since Wittgenstein’s “On Certainty”, but social science, and most notably economics has continued to operate on the basis of causal and agency theories borrowed or adapted from the natural sciences. This volume contains essays that retain and justify the partial or qualified use of this approach and essays that totally reject any use of causal and agency theory built on determined facts (closed systems).The rejection is based on the possibly original claim that, whereas causation in the objects of the natural sciences reside in their properties, human action is a matter of intentionality. It engages with critical realist theory and re-examines the role of free will in theories of human action in general and economic theory in particular.
Ageing in a Nursing Home: Foundations for Care
by Rosalie HudsonSpending the final chapter of your life in a nursing home is considered, by many, a fate worse than death. Others, however, have found that through enlightened, imaginative care even the frailest of lives can flourish. The key to such a transformation is to replace the constricting custodial centres of the past with a more informed, research-based approach. This book is timely, responding to evidence of the urgent need for change described in the Australian Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety Final Report: Care, Dignity and Respect and its predecessor subtitled Neglect. In this book, the author proposes a model of care that places the whole person at its centre, sidestepping the constraints of a reductionist funding model that focusses on residents' deficits – and the proprietor’s financial gain. Aged care requires a comprehensive research-based guide to fulfil this aim. Narratives are included throughout the book to reinforce the fact that nursing home care is about individual residents and their unique lives. Topics explored in various chapters include:· Ageing in a Changing Community· Social, Gerontological Care· A Palliative Approach· Community Expectations Ageing in a Nursing Home: Foundations for Care takes a realistic approach that draws on contemporary research and narratives from the unique lives of older Australians who, despite their frailty, teach us how to care. Such knowledge informs and influences their future. The book is a resource intended for all who have a stake in the provision of best practice residential aged care, and all who benefit from such care. Its academic appeal will include those who design and teach courses in aged care: gerontology, general practice medicine, nursing, attendant care, allied health, and chaplaincy. Academics and teachers will find useful, well-referenced material for their courses, together with ample scope for researchers.