Empowering Frail Elderly People

LEONARD F. HEUMANN is Professor of Urban and Regional Planning, the Building Research Council Housing Research Development, and Psychology at the University of Illinois at Urbana—Champaign./e MARY E. McCALL is Professor of Psychology at St. Mary's College in Moraga, California./e DUNCAN P. BOLDY is Professor and Head of the Department of Health Policy and Management at Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Western Australia.

Introduction
Empowerment: Definitions, Applications, Problems and Prospects by Mary E. McCall, Leonard F. Heumann, and Duncan P. Boldy
Opportunities and Impediments in Housing, Health and Support Service Delivery by Leonard F. Heumann, Duncan P. Boldy and Mary E. McCall
Service Providers and Empowerment: Information, Training and Coordination
Promoting Empowerment in Residential Aged care: Seeking the Consumer View by Duncan P. Boldy and Linda E. Grenade
Reimagining Senior Empowerment in Service Delivery: Creative Applications in a Global Context by Mary E. McCall
Retaining and Expanding Empowerment in the Transition to a Community-Oriented Support System: Japan in the 21st Century by Tokie Anme
Empowerment in Post-Reform Community Care in England and Wales by Bleddyn Davies
Environment and Empowerment in Conventional Housing
Another Way of Living in One's Own Home: The Salmon Group Projects by Robin Currie, Marie-Jo Guisset, and Niek de Boer
The Role of the Built Environment in Holistic Delivery of Home and Community Based Care Services to Frail Elderly Persons by Leonard F. Heumann
When Community Planning Becomes Community Building: Place-Based Activism and the Creation of Good Places to Grow Old by Philip B. Stafford
Client Empowerment in Long-Term Care
The Rights of Elderly People in a Nursing Home--A Little Creativity, a Lot of Respect, a Taste for Adventure and an Allergy to Burearcracy by Germain Harvey
Bringing Managed Health Care Home: A New Service Strategy for People with Chronic Illnesses and Disabilities by Dennis L. Kodner, Meg Sherlock, and Jonathan Shankman
Elderly Persons with Severe Mental Illness: Empowering a Neglected and Growing Population by Paul H. Carmichael
Older People with Long Standing Disabilities and their Caregivers: Empowering a Neglected and Growing Population by Lindsay Gething
Overview and the Future
Empowerment in Pathways Through Care: A Cross-National Comparison of Care Delivery Systems in Britain and Germany by Michaela Schunk
Empowerment of Frail Elderly People and the Vision of a Self-Actualized Society by Duncan P. Boldy, May E. McCall, and Leonard F. Heumann