Therapeutic Interventions With Ethnic Elders
Subtitle: Health and Social Issues
Contributors: Sara Aleman (Editor); Tanya Fitzpatrick (Editor); Thanh V. Tran (Editor); Elizabeth Gonzalez (Editor)
Publisher: Haworth Press
Published: February 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 219
ISBN-13: 9780789002723
Subjects: Adolescents; Elderly; Ethnic studies; Family & Health; Health systems & services; Social aspects; Health Services For Older Adults; Family / Parenting / Childbirth; Ethnic Sociology; Health/Fitness; Health & Fitness; Health Care Issues; General; Gerontology; Health and hygiene; Medical care; Ethnic Studies - General; Minority older people; Cross-cultural studies
First sentence: The purpose of the book is twofold.
Description: "Therapeutic Interventions with Ethnic Elders serves as a training tool to help staff members work with ethnically diverse populations and provide these populations with relevant services. With this guide, you will learn to recognize culturally driven behaviors of ethnic elders and how to make appropriate interventions. Therapeutic Interventions with Ethnic Elders explains culturally different behaviors and provides you with effective suggestions for working with each population to provide optimum care to your elders."--BOOK JACKET.