Summary
Contents
Key Concepts in Health Studies provides a much needed guide to the central concepts used across the subject, and offers the reader a comprehensive overview of the core topics, theories and debates. Drawing together the fundamentals within the disciplines of health, nursing, and social policy this book is an ideal text both for students studying health in a range of academic fields, and for health and social care practitioners. From ageism to public health, and gender to obesity, the book offers an exciting guide to the multidisciplinary field.
Institutionalization
Institutionalization
Institutionalization refers to the process whereby an individual can begin to lose their sense of self and identity following admission to a long-stay health or social care institution. The transformation from being independent and active to dependent and passive occurs when the needs of the institution supersede the needs of the individual. As a consequence, the individual can lose their ability to function outside of the institution.
When the 1990 NHS and Community Care Act came into being in the United Kingdom, it marked a radical shift in how people with certain care needs were to be supported by the state. Up until then one of the more common approaches had been to accommodate people in long-term care institutions. Such institutions catered for people with ...