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Social work and health care in an aging society : education, policy, practice, and research / Barbara Berkman, editor ; Linda Harootyan, associate editor.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social work with older people--United States.
- Social work with older people.
- United States.
- Older people--Services for--United States.
- Older people.
- Older people--Services for.
- Medical social work--United States.
- Medical social work.
- Older people--Medical care--United States.
- Older people--Medical care.
- Older people--Mental health services--United States.
- Older people--Mental health services.
- Social work education--United States.
- Social work education.
- Older people--Government policy--United States.
- Older people--Government policy.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 408 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Springer, [2003]
- Contents:
- Chapter 2 Late-Life Depression in Nursing Home Residents: Social Work Opportunities to Prevent, Educate, and Alleviate / Margaret E. Adamek 15
- Chapter 3 Older Adults with Dementia: Community-Based Long-Term Care Alternatives / Jeanette Semke 49
- Chapter 4 The Older Patient at Home: Social Work Services and Home Health Care / Ji Seon Lee, Irene A. Gutheil 73
- Chapter 5 Gerontological Social Work and Case Management / Matthias J. Naleppa 97
- Chapter 6 Self-Health Care by Urban, African American Elders / Denise Burnette, Suk-Young Kang 123
- Chapter 7 Physical Health and Economic Well-Being of Older African American Women: Toward Strategies of Empowerment / Letha A. Chadiha, Portia Adams 149
- Chapter 8 Grandparents Raising Grandchildren / Nancy P. Kropf, Scott Wilks 177
- Chapter 9 Aging Persons with Developmental Disabilities and Their Caregivers / Philip McCallion, Stacey R. Kolomer 201
- Chapter 10 Strains and Gains of Grandmothers Raising Grandchildren in the HIV Pandemic / Cynthia Cannon Poindexter, Nancy Capobianco Boyer 227
- Chapter 11 Elder Mistreatment and the Role of Social Work / Gregory J. Paveza, Carla VandeWeerd 245
- Chapter 12 Standardized Geriatric Assessment in Social Work Practice with Older Adults / Scott Miyake Geron, Faith C. Little 269
- Chapter 13 Cultural Considerations in Health Care and Quality of Life / Peter Maramaldi, Marci Guevara 297
- Chapter 14 Centrality of Social Ties to the Health and Well-Being of Older Adults / James Lubben, Melanie Gironda 319
- Chapter 15 Home and Community-Based Long-Term Care Policies and Programs: The Crucial Role for Social Work Practitioners and Researchers in Evaluation / Stephanie A. Robert 351
- Chapter 16 Meeting the Challenges of Social Work Practice in Health Care and Aging in the 21st Century / Daniel S. Gardner, Bradley D. Zodikoff 377.
- Notes:
- Chapters are based on the research of the first 10 scholars in the Hartford Geriatric Social Work Faculty Scholars Program, administered by the Gerontological Society of America.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0826115438
- OCLC:
- 51770203
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