Aging with a disability
Subtitle: what the clinician needs to know
By: edited by Bryan J. Kemp and Laura Mosqueda.
Contributors: Kemp, Bryan.; Mosqueda, Laura Ann.
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 307
Subjects: Older people with disabilities -- Medical care.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A consumer's perspective on living with a disability: how change in function affects daily life / Kathleen Lankasky; title: Family member's perspective on aging with a disability / Bryan J. Kemp; title: Physiological changes and secondary conditions / Laura Mosqueda; title: Quality of life, coping, and depression / Bryan J. Kemp; title: Family and caregiver issues / Mary Ann McColl; title: Maintaining health and function / Laura Mosqueda; title: Functional changes affecting people aging with disabilities / Lilli Thompson; title: The therapist's role in maintaining employment / Suzanne M. Bruyre, William A. Erickson, Dorothy J. Wilson, and Nancy Somerville; title: Aging with spinal cord injury / William A. Bauman and Robert L. Waters.; title: Aging with poliomyelitis / Jacquelin Perry; title: Aging with cerebral palsy / Kevin P. Murphy and Patrick Michael Bliss; title: Aging with developmental disabilities: emerging models for promoting health, independence, and quality of life / Tamar Heller; title: Methodological issues / James S. Krause and Rodney H. Adkins; title: The politics of aging with disability: health care policy and the shaping of a public agenda / Fernando M. Torres-Gil and Michelle Putnam; title: The health care partnership: barriers to care, part I: the provider's viewpoint / Terry Winkler; title: The health care partnership: barriers to care, part II: the consumer's viewpoint / June Kailes.