title: [The legitimacy of the nursing home for somatic diseases in health care. A cultural-sociological approach].
abstract: The Dutch nursing home for somatic patients is analysed in the perspective of sociology of culture. Not only the values and the meaning which the nursing home pretends to offer, are investigated, but also the expectations that patients have of nursing homes. Legitimacy is the crucial concept in this respect. The nursing home is legitimate if it meets certain expectations of the patients. Corresponding to the Advice of the Dutch Central Advisory Body for Health on task and function of nursing homes, it is shown, that nursing homes are not legitimate in the strict meaning described above. On the contrary the nursing home has primarily been a political factor intended to stabilize our ageing society. Close co-operation with community care is pleaded in order to understand the unique situation of every chronically ill patient or older disabled person, and to meet his needs as well as possible.
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mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D003254:Consumer Advocacy; D003258:Consumer Behavior; D003469:Culture; D006801:Humans; D009426:Netherlands; D012866:Skilled Nursing Facilities / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000639:trends*; D012945:Social Values
vernacular_title: De legitimiteit van het verpleeghuis voor somatisch zieken in de gezondheidszorg. Een cultuur-sociologische benadering.