Gerontological Social Work Practice : Issues, Challenges, and Potential

ISBN-13: 9780789019400 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 204 str.

Edin Opal Cox; Enid Opal Cox

Opis

Three American academics in the fields of social work and social welfare present 13 papers addressing issues of the role, status, and potential of social work in an aging society. Focusing on national and international contexts, overviews of larger economic, political, and social issues are covered. Current social work research and educational stat

Spis treści

• Preface
• Towards a New Era in Aging and Social Work
• Multiculturalism, Social Policy and the New Aging
• Gerontological Social Work Practice: A Canadian Perspective
• Challenges and Issues Under Long-Term Care Insurance for the Elderly in Japan
• Gerontological Social Work Research: Current Status and Future Directions
• Demographics and Reality: The “Disconnect” in Social Work Education
• Mental Health Services Policy and the Aging
• Social Work with Older Adults in Health Care and Residential Settings in the New Millennium: A Return to the Past
• Challenges in Elder Mistreatment Programs and Policy
• Gerontological Social Work with Older African American Adults
• Older Workers’ Issues and Social Work Practice
• Changing the Paradigm: Strengths-Based and Empowerment-Oriented Social Work with Frail Elders
• Death and Dying and the Social Work Role
• Index
• Reference Notes Included

O autorze

Cox, Enid Opal; Chapin, Rosemary; Kelchner, Elizabeth