Empowering Social Workers for Practice with Vulnerable Older Adults
Barbara Soniat and Monica Melady Micklos
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
Introduction
Part One
Chapter 1—Vulnerable Older Adults: A Population Demanding Attention
Chapter 2—Geriatric Social Work as a Vital Field
Chapter 3—Theoretical Perspectives
Chapter 4—Value Issues and Ethical Dilemmas
Part Two
Chapter 5—Importance of the Client–Social Worker Relationship
Chapter 6—Assessing Capacity
Chapter 7—Assessing Risk
Chapter 8—Using the Capacity–Risk Model to Guide Assessment and Intervention Decisions
Part Three
Chapter 9—Working with Older People who Hoard
Chapter 10—Live Alones: Social Work Interventions with People with Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias
Who Live Alone
References
Index
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