Aging and social work
Subtitle: the changing landscapes
By: Sharon M. Keigher, Anne E. Fortune, and Stanley L Witkin, editors
Contributors: Keigher, Sharon Marie, 1947-; Fortune, Anne E., 1945-; Witkin, Stanley L, 1947-
Publisher: NASW Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 428
Subjects: Social work with older people; Older people -- Social conditions; Older people -- Economic conditions; Older people -- Care
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: Preface / Celia B. Weisman; Introduction / Sharon M. Keigher, Anne E. Fortune, & Stanley L. Witkin; The United Nations Principles for Older Persons; Coming of age! / Sharon M. Keigher; The aging are coming and they are us / Colleen M. Galambos & Anita Rosen; How "ripened" are you? / Stanley L. Witkin; Towards a society for all ages: the International Year of Older Persons / M.C. "Terry" Hokenstad; The role of government in a "society for all ages" / Robert B. Hudson; Marital status and change in income status 10 years after retirement / Martha N. Ozawa & Yat-Sang Lum; Saving Social Security and Medicare / Stephen Gorin; Differences in net worth between elderly black people and elderly white people / Martha N. Ozawa & Huan-yui Tseng; What families know about funeral-related costs / Mercedes Bern-Klug, David J. Ekerdt, & Deborah Schild Wilkinson; Friendship and social support / Darcy Clay Siebert, Elizabeth J. Mutran, & Donald C. Reitzes; Hospice access and use by African Americans / Dona J. Reese ... [et al.]; The aging of America and the Older Americans Act / Jeanette C. Takamura; The effect of Medicaid coverage on use of health services by low-income elderly people / Yat-Sang Lum & Hong-jer Chang; Use of health and human services by community-residing people with dementia / Ronald W. Toseland ... [et al.]; Perceptions of dementia, caregiving, and help seeking among Asian and Pacific Islander Americans / Kathryn L. Braun & Colette V. Browne; The effect of functional disability on service utilization: implications for long-term care / Lee R. Slivinske, V.L. Fitch, & N.W. Wingerson; Standardized screening of elderly patients' needs for social work assessment in primary care: use of the SF-36 / Barbara Berkman ... [et al.]; Preparation for oncology settings: what hospice social workers say they need / Pamela J. Kovacs & Laura R. Bronstein; The effectiveness of social work with older people and their families / Amanda M. Grenier & Kevin M. Gorey; Creating cost-efficient initiatives in social work practice in the cardiac program of an acute care hospital / Catherine Kohm, Diane Neil-Pollinger, & Fatima Sheriff; Short-term persistent depression following hip fracture: a risk factor and target to increase resilience in elderly people / Sheryl Itkin Zimmerman ... [et al.]; Adequacy of discharge plans and rehospitalization among hospitalized dementia patients / Sherry M. Cummings; Adequacy of home care and hospital readmission for elderly congestive heart failure patients / Enola K. Proctor ... [et al.]; African American grandparents raising grandchildren / Esme Fuller-Thomson & Meredith Minkler; Custodial grandparents in Latino families / Denise Burnette; HIV-related stigma in a sample of HIV-affected older female African-American caregivers / Cynthia Cannon Poindexter & Nathan L. Linsk; Husbands caring for wives with dementia / Betty J. Kramer; Choosing an adult foster home or a nursing home / James Reinardy & Rosalie A. Kane; The social worker in the emerging field of home care / Marcia Eagan & Goldie Kadushin; Desire to die in terminally ill people / Ruth Anne Van Loon; Preserving end-of-life autonomy: the Patient Self-Determination Act and the Uniform Health Care Decisions Act / Colleen M. Galambos