Gerontology for Health Professionals

A Practice Guide, 2nd Edition

Introduction

1. Working with the Old, Older, and Oldest: Understanding the Experience of Aging in America
Florence Safford
2. Health and Illness in the Later Years: Range of Normal and Pathological
Florence Safford
3. Helping the Incontinent: A Biopsychosocial Challenge
Florence Safford
4. Medication and the Elderly
Mary Helen Hayden and Florence Safford
5. Differential Assessment of Dementia and Depression in Elderly People
Florence Safford
6. Case Management with the Elderly
Karen M. Sowers-Hoag
7. Working with Traditional and Nontraditional Families of Elderly People
Carol R. Odell and Florence Safford
8. Ethnic Issues in Health Care Delivery to Elderly People: Specific Focus on Black Americans and Hispanics
Terry Conward and Gema G. Hernandez
9. Hidden Problem of Elder Abuse: Clues and Strategies for Health Care Workers
Jordan I. Kosberg
10. Tools for Ethical Reasoning in Long-Term Care Management Martha Pelaez
11. HIV/AIDS and the Elderly
James H. Riley
12. Death, Bereavement, Loss, and Growth: Two Perspectives
Mary O'Donnell and Florence Safford
13. Advance Directives: Choices and Challenges
Florence Safford
14. Impact of the Elderly on the Health Care System and Its Implications for the Delivery of Social Services
George I. Krell
15. A Recapitulation of Workplace Guidelines
George I. Krell

Appendix: Client Self-Determination in End-of-Life Decisions

NASW Policy Statement

Index

The Editors

The Contributors