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Annotation What are the challenges facing gerontological social workerstoday and in the near future? This book gives you an essential overview of the role, status, and potential of gerontological social work in aging societies around the world. Drawing on the expertise of leaders in the field, it identifies key policy and practice issues and suggests directions for the future. Here youll find important perspectives on home health care, mental health, elder abuse, older workers issues, and death and dying, as well as an examination of the policy and practice issues of utmost concern to social workers dealing with the elderly. With Gerontological Social Work Practice: Issues, Challenges, and Potential youll explore: the differences between real situations and what demographics lead one to expect the need for social workers to focus on economic, political, and social issues in order to promote positive change the long-term care insurance issues facing elderly Japanese citizens a Canadian perspective on social work practice with aging people practice techniques to use with aging African Americans strengths-based and empowerment-oriented ways to work with frail elderly t

Who reads Gerontological Social Work Practice : Issues, Challenges, and Potential?

Author

Chapin, Rosemary Kennedy; Cox, Enid Opal; Kelchner, Elizabeth S.

Publisher

Routledge Taylor & Francis Group [Distributor

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9781317787747

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Family & Relationships, Psychology