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

This book places significant issues related to the health, mental health, and well-being of older adults and their caregivers within the context of social work service delivery. By presenting the research of social work scholars, all experts in specific research areas, the editors clarify the value that social work brings to the larger realm of health care for older adults and their families. Special consideration is given to such issues as case management, urban, African-American elders, grandmothers raising grandchildren, aging persons with developmental disabilities, home health care, and more. For Further Information on Dr. Berkman, Please Click Here! Introduction / Barbara Berkman and Linda Krogh Harootyan Late-life depression in nursing home residents: social work opportunities to prevent, educate, and alleviate / Margaret E. Adamek Older adults with dementia: community-based long-term care alternatives / Jeanette Semke The older patient at home: social work services and home health care / Ji Seon Lee and Irene A. Gutheil Gerontological social work and case management / Matthias J. Naleppa Self-health care by urban, African American elders / Denise Burnette and Suk-Young Kang Physical health and economic well-being of older African American women: toward strategies of empowerment / Letha A. Chadiha and Portia Adams Grandparents raising grandchildren / Nancy P. Kropf and Scott Wilks Aging persons with developmental disabilities and their caregivers / Philip McCallion and Stacey R. Kolomer Strains and gains of grandmothers raising grandchildren in the HIV pandemic / Cynthia Cannon Poindexter and Nancy Capobianco Boyer Elder mistreatment and the role of social work / Gregory J. Paveza and Carla VandeWeerd Standardized geriatric assessment in social work practice with older adults / Scott Miyake Geron and Faith C. Little Cultural considerations in health care and quality of life / Peter Maramaldi and Marci Guevara Centrality of social ties to the health and well-being of older adults / James Lubben and Melanie Gironda Home and community-based long-term care policies and programs: the crucial role for social work practitioners and researchers in evaluation / Stephanie A. Robert Meeting the challenges of social work practice in health care and aging in the 21st century / Daniel S. Gardner and Bradley D. Zodikoff Sixteen chapters by scholars of social work relate the well-being of older adults to social work practice and the current model of service delivery. Chapters concentrate on issues affecting the health of older adults (depression, dementia, abuse), services to specific populations (African American women, grandparents raising grandchildren, the developmentally disabled), and professional issues (home care, case management, standardized assessment). The implications for training, research, and policy are highlighted. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Sixteen chapters by scholars of social work relate the well-being of older adults to social work practice and the current model of service delivery. Chapters concentrate on issues affecting the health of older adults (depression, dementia, abuse), services to specific populations (African American women, grandparents raising grandchildren, the developmentally disabled), and professional issues (home care, case management, standardized assessment). The implications for training, research, and policy are highlighted. Annotation ©2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Focuses on issues related to the health, mental health, and well-being of older adults and their caregivers within the context of social work service delivery. This book addresses such issues as case management, African-American elders, grandmothers raising grandchildren, aging persons with developmental disabilities, home health care, and more. Over the past 10 years, Americans have read many times about the dramatic changes in health care delivery that have been stimulated by advances in technology and by new approaches to the financing of health care.