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Health Care of the Aged: Needs, Policies, and Services
ISBN: 9781560240655 / Angielski / Twarda / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Examines fiscal, political, and social criteria related to the increasingly pressing need to develop new service delivery models for the aged, with an emphasis on greater long-term care in either home, community, or institutional settings. Also published as Journal of gerontological social work, v.
Examines fiscal, political, and social criteria related to the increasingly pressing need to develop new service delivery models for the aged, with an...
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Growing Up: Pastoral Nurture for the Later Years
ISBN: 9781560240723 / Angielski / Twarda / 148 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Growing Up: Pastoral Nurture for the Later Years is a sensitive volume devoted to helping older adults retain their status as meaningful members of their congregations and communities. In an honest approach, based on the foundations that old age is supposed to happen, the future belongs to the old, and vocation for people of faith is lifelong, Thomas Robb provides personal and Biblical perspectives, as well as research from over 20 years as a pastor, on the life process and the feelings, worries, and expectations accompanying growing up and growing old. He then molds these concerns into a...
Growing Up: Pastoral Nurture for the Later Years is a sensitive volume devoted to helping older adults retain their status as meaningful members of th...
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Women and Aging: Celebrating Ourselves
ISBN: 9781560241515 / Angielski / Twarda / 166 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In our youth-oriented, patriarchal society, aging and older women often find themselves either ignored, pitied, or feared. Women and Aging is a valuable guide to help women break through the negative stereotypes of old age and find personal fulfillment through the stages of maturity. Full of warmth and support, Women and Aging strongly enables women to take and remain in control of their lives instead of passively letting others make life-changing--and possibly harmful--decisions for them. This essential guide for aging will help women increase the vitality of their old age, as it urges them...
In our youth-oriented, patriarchal society, aging and older women often find themselves either ignored, pitied, or feared. Women and Aging is a valuab...
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Gerontological Social Work Supervision
ISBN: 9781560241829 / Angielski / Miękka / 148 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Argues that there is a need for supervision in gerontological social work settings and provides a framework for approaching supervision. The authors examine present gerontological practice and principles, and the various stages and styles of helping, learning and teaching case workers.
Argues that there is a need for supervision in gerontological social work settings and provides a framework for approaching supervision. The authors e...
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Aging and God: Spiritual Pathways to Mental Health in Midlife and Later Years
ISBN: 9781560244240 / Angielski / Miękka / 572 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This important book examines the relationship between religion and mental health throughout the life cycle, with a special emphasis on later life. It asserts that successful aging is possible regardless of physical health or environmental circumstances, and that religious beliefs and behaviors may facilitate successful aging. Aging and God thoroughly examines the effects of religion and mental health on aging and provides a centralized resource of up-to-date references of research in the field. It focuses on recent findings, theoretical issues, and implications for clinical practice and...
This important book examines the relationship between religion and mental health throughout the life cycle, with a special emphasis on later life. It ...
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Faces of Women and Aging
ISBN: 9781560244356 / Angielski / Twarda / 214 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Discover the diverse ways aging women attempt to deal with the universal challenges of loss, sickness, and death along with the problems of being old women in a society that values women mainly as sexual partners or producers of children. Old women are often seen as poor, powerless, and pitiful in our sexist and youth-oriented society. The truth is that women age much more successfully than do men and they are increasingly in the majority as our population ages. These truths and others are presented in Faces of Women and Aging--a collection written by women, a number of whom are themselves...
Discover the diverse ways aging women attempt to deal with the universal challenges of loss, sickness, and death along with the problems of being old ...
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Ethics and Values in Long Term Health Care
ISBN: 9781560246985 / Angielski / Twarda / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Here is an overview of many of the ethical challenges facing health care practitioners today. Health providers striving for the appropriate balance between human rights and values and the objectives within their professions confront many ethical dilemmas. This helpful book explores such dilemmas from practical and philosophical perspectives and helps practitioners successfully navigate through the maze of concerns they face on a daily basis. With Ethics and Values in Long Term Health Care, readers can develop new modes of ethical thinking that will enhance their practice as they improve the...
Here is an overview of many of the ethical challenges facing health care practitioners today. Health providers striving for the appropriate balance be...
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Volunteerism in Geriatric Settings
ISBN: 9781560247906 / Angielski / Twarda / 126 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Volunteerism in Geriatric Settings is an instructional tool for activity directors and others interested in successful volunteer program management. It examines three dimensions of volunteerism: the distinctive dynamics of the volunteer program within the geriatric setting; the behaviors and attitudes managers and volunteers bring to the program; and the responsibility managers have for the nature and scope of programs offered.The innovative programs and approaches that are described in Volunteerism in Geriatric Settings lend themselves to replication. Readers will benefit from the...
Volunteerism in Geriatric Settings is an instructional tool for activity directors and others interested in successful volunteer program management. I...
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Needs Assessment : A Creative And Practical Guide For Social Scientists
ISBN: 9781560323761 / Angielski / Miękka / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This text offers steps to follow and strategic considerations for designing, planning and carrying out research, as well as analyzing and disseminating the findings. The reader is instructed in developing an integrated matrix to service as a blueprint for the research design and introduced to methods of employing both primary and secondary data and qualitative data collection and analysis.
This text offers steps to follow and strategic considerations for designing, planning and carrying out research, as well as analyzing and disseminatin...
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Ethnicity and Dementias
ISBN: 9781560324379 / Angielski / Miękka / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
First published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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Aging in America A to Z
ISBN: 9781568025841 / Angielski / Twarda / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. America's rapidly expanding population of older citizens is becoming the dominant political and policy issue of the new century. Thorny issues are driving decisions made in Washington, D.C. and state capitols, in corporations, and around the family dining table, such as:
-- The future of Social Security -- Eldercare -- The cost of Medicare and drugs -- Retirement and pensions. Aging in America A to Z is an encyclopedic roadmap to the challenging questions and potential answers facing today's seniors and their children. Important to both seniors and younger Americans who must... America's rapidly expanding population of older citizens is becoming the dominant political and policy issue of the new century. Thorny issues are dri...
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Still Here: Embracing Aging, Changing, and Dying
ISBN: 9781573228718 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. More than thirty years ago, an entire generation sought a new way of life, looking for fulfillment and meaning in a way no one had before. Leaving his teaching job at Harvard, Ram Dass embodied the role of spiritual seeker, showing others how to find peace within themselves in one of the greatest spiritual classics of the twentieth century, the two-million-copy bestseller Be Here Now. As many of that generation enter the autumn of their years, the big questions of peace and of purpose have returned demanding answers. And once again, Ram Dass blazes a new trail, inviting all to join him...
More than thirty years ago, an entire generation sought a new way of life, looking for fulfillment and meaning in a way no one had before. Leaving his...
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Aging: Demographics, Health, and Health Services
ISBN: 9781573565479 / Angielski / Twarda / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The graying of America is perhaps the most significant demographic event of recent times. Health care and nutrition have improved, and baby boomers reaching middle age and retirement will influence American society both now and in the years to come. Vierck and Hodges present vital statistics on aging Americans in a readable and interesting format, describing trends, offering insights, and providing a framework for understanding the data. This book includes many previously unpublished data sources, and Vierck and Hodges offer analytical support to clarify the vast amount of information.... The graying of America is perhaps the most significant demographic event of recent times. Health care and nutrition have improved, and baby boomers... |
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Deinstitutionalization and People with Intellectual Disabilities : In and out of Institutions
ISBN: 9781843101017 / Angielski / Miękka / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This international collection of personal and professional perspectives takes a fresh look at deinstitutionalization. It addresses the key steps towards deinstitutionalization as they have been experienced by people with intellectual disabilities: living inside total institutions, moving out, living in the community and moving on to new forms of both institutionalization and community life. Many of the chapters are contributions from people with intellectual disabilities. They are based on a life history approach and give a unique personal account of the lived experiences of institutional...
This international collection of personal and professional perspectives takes a fresh look at deinstitutionalization. It addresses the key steps towar...
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Design for Nature in Dementia Care
ISBN: 9781843105718 / Angielski / Miękka / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Maintaining a connection to nature is increasingly recognised as an important component of caring for a person with dementia. Design for Nature in Dementia Care provides comprehensive examples of ways to connect to nature through indoor and outdoor activities. The author describes a wide range of activities that offer a connection to nature, such as caring for house plants and pets, gardening and cooking, practising handicrafts and domestic chores. He suggests practical ways to incorporate nature into indoor and outdoor environments and also into the design of buildings and landscapes. These...
Maintaining a connection to nature is increasingly recognised as an important component of caring for a person with dementia. Design for Nature in Dem...
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A Personal Guide to Living with Progressive Memory Loss
ISBN: 9781843108634 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Memory loss can create problems in every aspect of a person's life. The challenge of communicating thoughts and feelings can be made even harder by other people's negative perceptions of dementia. This book provides practical guidance for coping with progressive memory loss, and includes examples of real people who have faced similar challenges. These stories highlight both good and bad ways to deal with the problems that arise, and are also useful for describing the experiences of memory loss to friends and family. The authors suggest ways of maintaining physical and mental health by staying...
Memory loss can create problems in every aspect of a person's life. The challenge of communicating thoughts and feelings can be made even harder by ot...
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Wholeness in Later Life
ISBN: 9781853024474 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 'The book is wide-ranging and probably is most satisfactory when it is introducing the reader to concerns, issues, disabilities, client groups or fields of work in which the reader is a non-specialist. It is useful as an introduction and a survey of the major problems impacting on people with particular disabilities as they age. It is, despite its extensive bibliography, less satisfying for the specialist reader. It is well written, well researched as far as Australian and north American literature is concerned and reflects vast practice experience, and great sensitivity and empathy. The...
'The book is wide-ranging and probably is most satisfactory when it is introducing the reader to concerns, issues, disabilities, client groups or fiel...
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Social Work and Dementia: Good Practice and Care Management
ISBN: 9781853029042 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A practical resource written specifically for social care professionals working with people with dementia and their families, this book gives guidance on person-centred good practice throughout the care process from the initial diagnosis, through day care, respite care, long-term care, and death and attachment. The guide will enable social workers to manage their cases effectively and empathetically, making appropriate, culturally sensitive decisions and acting as advocates for this growing client group. It contains essential background material about the financial and legal context,...
A practical resource written specifically for social care professionals working with people with dementia and their families, this book gives guidance...
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The Ageing and Development Report: Poverty, Independence and the World's Older People
ISBN: 9781853836480 / Angielski / Miękka / 218 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The world's population is ageing. The majority of older people live in the developing world, where unprecedented growth in the number of older people has major implications for economies, health systems, housing, working patterns and family relationships. This book examines themes such as community involvement, family life, and poverty.
The world's population is ageing. The majority of older people live in the developing world, where unprecedented growth in the number of older people ...
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Aging and Ethics: Philosophical Problems in Gerontology
ISBN: 9780896032552 / Angielski / Miękka / 394 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Aging Self and the Aging Society Ethical issues involving the elderly have recently come to the fore. This should come as no surprise: Since the turn of the century, there has been an eightfold in crease in the number of Americans over the age of sixty five, and almost a tripling of their proportion to the general population. Those over the age of eighty-five- the fastest growing group in the country-are twenty one more times as numerous as in 1900. Demographers expect this trend to accelerate into the twenty-first century. The aging of society casts into vivid relief a num ber of deep...
The Aging Self and the Aging Society Ethical issues involving the elderly have recently come to the fore. This should come as no surprise: Since the t...
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