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Social work and health care in an aging society [electronic resource] : education, policy, practice, and research / Barbara Berkman, editor ; Linda Harootyan, associate editor.
ISBN:
9780826197245

9781281806666
Title:
Social work and health care in an aging society [electronic resource] : education, policy, practice, and research / Barbara Berkman, editor ; Linda Harootyan, associate editor.
Author:
Berkman, Barbara.
Publication Information:
New York : Springer, ©2003.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xi, 408 pages)
General Note:
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.
Contents:
Late-life depression in nursing home residents: social work opportunities to prevent, educate, and alleviate / Older adults with dementia: community-based long-term care alternatives / The older patient at home: social work services and home health care / Gerontological social work and case management / Self-health care by urban, African American elders / Physical health and economic well-being of older African American women: toward strategies of empowerment / Grandparents raising grandchildren / Aging persons with developmental disabilities and their caregivers / Strains and gains of grandmothers raising grandchildren in the HIV pandemic / Elder mistreatment and the role of social work / Standardized geriatric assessment in social work practice with older adults / Cultural considerations in health care and quality of life / Centrality of social ties to the health and well-being of older adults / Home and community-based long-term care policies and programs: the crucial role for social work practitioners and researchers in evaluation / Meeting the challenges of social work practice in health care and aging in the 21st century
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Publication Date:
2003
Publication Information:
New York : Springer, ©2003.