Social Work and Alzheimer's Disease
Subtitle: Practice Issues With Victims and Their Families (The Journal of Gerontological Social Work Series) (The Journal of Gerontological Social Work Series)
Publisher: Haworth Press
Published: April 1986
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 126
ISBN-13: 9780866564021
Subjects: United States; Presenile dementia; Politics / Current Events; Social work with older people; Public Policy - Social Services & Welfare; Medical social work
First sentence: It is estimated that chronic dementing syndromes, regardless of etiology, are present in 50%-70% of all residents in nursing homes today (DHHS, 1980; Besdine, 1978).