Respect for the Elderly Implications for Human Service Providers

This book is concerned with the fundamental issues of elder respect, how it is practiced and perceived in the broad context of human service settings, and with the resolution of those issues. The writings presented in this book describe the role of elder respect in health, social work, religious, and cultural and ethnic settings. The authors aim for elder respect to be better understood by professionals in human services as well as by those people who care for elderly relatives in the East and the West. Book jacket.

Kyu-Taik Sung is a visiting professor at the University of Michigan. Bum Jung Kim is associate director of the Center for Policy Research on Aging in the School of Public Affairs at the University of California, Los Angeles.