title: Hands on/hands off: why health care professionals depend on families but keep them at arm's length.
abstract: The authors assert that a system that requires ever greater direct and indirect participation from families must change the negative presumption that families equal trouble to one that acknowledges legitimate family interests in decision making and care delivery and treats families as partners in caregiving.
authors.affiliation: Families and Health Care Project, United Hospital Fund, New York City, USA.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Levine
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Zuckerman
mesh_terms: D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D017028:Caregivers; D034462:Dissent and Disputes; D004992:Ethics, Medical; D006126:Group Processes; D006699:Home Care Services; D006801:Humans; D026684:Personal Autonomy; D011368:Professional-Family Relations; D012945:Social Values