Social Work and Health Care in an Aging Society: Education, Policy, Practice, and Research

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ISBN: 9780826115430 | 0826115438
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 6/1/2003

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Columbia Univ., New York City, NY. Text discusses significant issues related to health, mental health, and well-being of older adults and their caregivers with the context of social work delivery. Presents the research of social work scholars clarifying the value social work brings to the realm of health care for older adults and their families. For social workers.

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Acknowledgments

Chapter 1 Introduction

(14)

Barbara Berkman and Linda Krogh Harootyan

Chapter 2 Late-Life Depression in Nursing Home Residents: Social Work Opportunities to Prevent, Educate, and Alleviate

(34)

Margaret E. Adamek

Chapter 3 Older Adults with Dementia: Community-Based Long-Term Care Alternatives

(24)

Jeanette Semke

Chapter 4 The Older Patient at Home: Social Work Services and Home Health Care

(24)

Ji 5eon Lee and Irene A. Gutheil

Chapter 5 Gerontological Social Work and Case Management

(26)

Matthias J. Naleppa

Chapter 6 Self-Health Care by Urban, African American Elders

123

(26)

Denise Burnette and Suk-Young Kang

Chapter 7 Physical Health and Economic Well-Being of Older African American Women: Toward Strategies of Empowerment

149

(28)

Letha A. Chadiha and Portio Adams

Chapter 8 Grandparents Raising Grandchildren

177

(24)

Nancy P. Kropf and Scott Wilks

Chapter 9 Aging Persons with Developmental Disabilities and Their Caregivers

201

(26)

Philip McCallion and Stacey R. Kolomer

Chapter 10 Strains and Gains of Grandmothers Raising Grandchildren in the HIV Pandemic

227

(42)

Cynthia Cannon Poindexter and Nancy Capobianco Boyer

Chapter 11 Elder Mistreatment and the Role of Social Work 245

Gregory J. Paveza and Carla VandeWeerd

Chapter 12 Standardized Geriatric Assessment in Social Work Practice with Older Adults

269

(28)

Scott Miyake Geron and Faith C. Little

Chapter 13 Cultural Considerations in Health Care and Quality of Life

297

(22)

Peter Maramaldi and Marci Guevara

Chapter 14 Centrality of Social Ties to the Health and Well-Being of Older Adults

319

(32)

James Lubben and Melanie Gironda

Chapter 15 Home and Community-Based Long-Term Care Policies and Programs: The Crucial Role for Social Work Practitioners and Researchers in Evaluation

351

(26)

Stephanie A. Robert

Chapter 16 Meeting the Challenges of Social Work Practice in Health Care and Aging in the 21st Century

377

(16)

Daniel S. Gardner and Bradley D. Zodikoff

Appendix

393

(4)

Index

397

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