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Gerontological Social Work Practice
Issues, Challenges, and Potential
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eBook - ePub
Gerontological Social Work Practice
Issues, Challenges, and Potential
About this book
What are the challenges facing gerontological social workersâtoday and in the near future?
This book gives you an essential overview of the role, status, and potential of gerontological social work in aging societies around the world. Drawing on the expertise of leaders in the field, it identifies key policy and practice issues and suggests directions for the future. Here you'll find important perspectives on home health care, mental health, elder abuse, older workers' issues, and death and dying, as well as an examination of the policy and practice issues of utmost concern to social workers dealing with the elderly.
With Gerontological Social Work Practice: Issues, Challenges, and Potential you'll explore:
- the differences between real situations and what demographics lead one to expect
- the need for social workers to focus on economic, political, and social issues in order to promote positive change
- the long-term care insurance issues facing elderly Japanese citizens
- a Canadian perspective on social work practice with aging people
- practice techniques to use with aging African Americans
- strengths-based and empowerment-oriented ways to work with frail elderly
- the impact of multiculturalism on social policy
- and much more!
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Yes, you can access Gerontological Social Work Practice by Enid Opal Cox,Rosemary Chapin,Elizabeth Kelchner in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Psychology & Mental Health in Psychology. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- About The Editors
- 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 âDisconnectâ 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