Social Work Practice in Home Health Care
Publisher: Haworth Press
Published: December 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 146
ISBN-13: 9780789004840
Subjects: Social welfare & social services; Social Science; Human Services; Medical / Nursing; Sociology; Administration; Health Risk Assessment; Home care services; Medical social work; United States
First sentence: The following vignettes reflect typical home health care situations across the United States: Vignette #1 Ms. B, age fifty-two, was referred to the agency for high-risk diabetes after several emergency room visits at a local hospital.
Description: "Current and comprehensive, Social Work Practice in Home Health Care provides social workers with successful methods and suggestions to find resources that clients need in order to face certain life challenges, such as abuse, neglect, poverty, malnutrition, uninhabitable housing, dysfunctional family situations, sensory deprivation, isolation, caregiver stresses, and alcohol and drug abuse."--BOOK JACKET.