title: From teams to hierarchy: a short-lived innovation in a hospital for the elderly.
abstract: An institution created to deliver rehabilitative care to the elderly is the object of this discussion. Three years of careful planning had produced a facility with a unique spatial design, a 'team approach' rather paper documents the confrontation, during the first year, between this innovative plan and the realities of operation. When the study ended, reality was gaining the advantage over the plan.
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D005853:Geriatrics; D006749:Hospital Design and Construction; D006782:Hospitals, Special / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D009788:Occupational Therapy; D010348:Patient Care Team; D026741:Physical Therapy Modalities; D012047:Rehabilitation Centers / Q000458:organization & administration; D012947:Social Work