Social work and health care in an aging society
Subtitle: education, policy, practice, and research
By: Barbara Berkman, editor ; Linda Harootyan, associate editor
Contributors: Berkman, Barbara; Harootyan, Linda K
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 408
Subjects: Social work with older people -- United States; Older people -- Services for -- United States; Medical social work -- United States; Older people -- Medical care -- United States; Older people -- Mental health services -- United States; Social work education -- United States; Older people -- Government policy -- United States
Notes: Chapters are based on the research of the first 10 scholars in the Hartford Geriatric Social Work Faculty Scholars Program, administered by the Gerontological Society of America

Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Barbara Berkman and Linda Krogh Harootyan; title: Late-life depression in nursing home residents: social work opportunities to prevent, educate, and alleviate / Margaret E. Adamek; title: Older adults with dementia: community-based long-term care alternatives / Jeanette Semke; title: The older patient at home: social work services and home health care / Ji Seon Lee and Irene A. Gutheil; title: Gerontological social work and case management / Matthias J. Naleppa; title: Self-health care by urban, African American elders / Denise Burnette and Suk-Young Kang; title: Physical health and economic well-being of older African American women: toward strategies of empowerment / Letha A. Chadiha and Portia Adams; title: Grandparents raising grandchildren / Nancy P. Kropf and Scott Wilks; title: Aging persons with developmental disabilities and their caregivers / Philip McCallion and Stacey R. Kolomer; title: Strains and gains of grandmothers raising grandchildren in the HIV pandemic / Cynthia Cannon Poindexter and Nancy Capobianco Boyer; title: Elder mistreatment and the role of social work / Gregory J. Paveza and Carla VandeWeerd; title: Standardized geriatric assessment in social work practice with older adults / Scott Miyake Geron and Faith C. Little; title: Cultural considerations in health care and quality of life / Peter Maramaldi and Marci Guevara; title: Centrality of social ties to the health and well-being of older adults / James Lubben and Melanie Gironda; title: Home and community-based long-term care policies and programs: the crucial role for social work practitioners and researchers in evaluation / Stephanie A. Robert; title: Meeting the challenges of social work practice in health care and aging in the 21st century / Daniel S. Gardner and Bradley D. Zodikoff