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This chapter argues that previous views of both the older person and the health-care environment have been limited in a way that forecloses some opportunities for the older person to benefit from such care. First, our attention to the health-care environment has been inappropriately limited to nursing homes. Second, our conceptions of health care have been inappropriately limited so as to cast the older person only as a receiver of support. Third, some ways are suggested of enhancing the ability of the older person to become an active participant in the process of care.
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Lawton, M.P. (1985). A Theoretical View of the Person in a Health-Care Environment. In: Gaitz, C.M., Niederehe, G., Wilson, N.L. (eds) Aging 2000: Our Health Care Destiny. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-5062-3_14
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