Social Work and Geriatric Services

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ISBN: 9781926692876 | 192669287X
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 4/15/2011

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Geriatric services in social work deals with the care of the elderly in many facets. This book addresses many of the important topics in social work with the elderly, including chronic disease prevalence, conducting research with older people, cognitive functioning and social integration, exercise for the elderly, suicide and depression in the elderly, smoking cessation for elderly clients, health screening, and more.

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Introduction	p. 9
Chronic Disease Prevalence and Care Among the Elderly in Urban and Rural Beijing, China-A 10/66 Dementia Research Group Cross-Sectional Survey	p. 13
Challenges to Conducting Research with Older People Living in Nursing Homes	p. 33
Association between Subjective Memory Complaints and Health Care Utilisation: A Three-Year Follow Up	p. 45
Cognitive Function, Social Integration and Mortality in a U.S. National Cohort Study of Older Adults	p. 59
Magnitude of Potentially Inappropriate Prescribing in Germany Among Older Patients with Generalized Anxiety Disorder	p. 75
Social Vulnerability, Frailty and Mortality in Elderly People	p. 89
Impact of Exercise in Community-Dwelling Older Adults	p. 106
Social Participation and Independence in Activities of Daily Living: A Cross Sectional Study	p. 119
Age-Related Attenuation of Dominant Hand Superiority	p. 139
Are Sedatives and Hypnotics Associated with Increased Risk of Suicide in the Elderly?	p. 162
Mental Rotation of Faces in Healthy Aging and Alzheimer's Disease	p. 173
Preventing Falls in Older Multifocal Glasses Wearers by Providing Single-Lens Distance Glasses: The Protocol for the VISIBLE Randomized Controlled Trial	p. 194
Emotional Stress as a Trigger of Falls Leading to Hip or Pelvic Fracture. Results from the Tofa Study-A Case-Crossover Study Among Elderly People in Stockholm, Sweden	p. 208
Health Status Transitions in Community-Living Elderly with Complex Care Needs: A Latent Class Approach	p. 223
Effectiveness of a Mobile Smoking Cessation Service in Reaching Elderly Smokers and Predictors of Quitting	p. 248
Factors Associated with Self-Rated Health in Older People Living in Institutions	p. 264
Discomfort and Agitation in Older Adults with Dementia	p. 276
Factors Influencing Elderly Women's Mammography Screening Decisions: Implications for Counseling	p. 293
Do Social Networks Affect the Use of Residential Aged Care Among Older Australians?	p. 307
Index	p. 329
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