Aging and Social Work
The Changing Landscapes
Preface
Celia B. Weisman
Introduction
Social Work Cones of Age in the International Year of Older Persons
Sharon M. Keigher, Anne E. Fortune, & Stanley L. Witkin
Overview
The Developing Agenda for Older Persons and Older Societies
The United Nations Priciples for Older Persons
Coming of Age!
Sharon M. Keigher
The Aging Are Coming and They Are Us
Colleen M. Galambos & Anita Rosen
How “Ripened” Are You?
Stanley L. Witkin
Towards Society for All Ages: The International Year of Older Persons
M.C “Terry” Hokenstad
1. Independence
1. The Role of Government in a “Society for All Ages”
Robert B. Hudson
2. Marital Status and Change in Income Status 10 Years after Retirement
Martha N. Ozawa & Yat-Sang Lum
3. Saving Social Security and Medicare
Stephen Gorin
4. Differences in Net Worth between Elderly Black People and
Elderly White People
Martha N. Ozawa & Huan –yui Tseng
5. What Families Know about Funeral-Related Costs:
Implications for Social Work Practice
Mercedes Bern-Klug, David J. Ekerdt, & Deborah Schild Wilkinson
II. Participation
6. Friendship and Social Support: The Importance of Role Identity
to Aging Adults
Darcy Clay Siebert, Elizabeth J. Mutran, & Donld C. Reitzes
7. Hospice Access and Use by African Americans: Addressing Cultural
and Institutional Barriers through Participatory Action Research
Dona J. Reese, Robin E. Ahern, Shankar Nair, Joleen D.O’Faire Scrock
and Claudia Warren-Wheat
8. The Aging of America and the Older Americans Act
Jeanette C. Takamura
III Care
A. Redressing Social Exclusion
9. The Effect of Medicaid Coverage on Use of Health Services by Low-Income
Elderly People
Yat-Sang Lum & Hong-jer Channg
10. Use of Health and Human Services by Community-Residing People
With Dementia
Ronald W. Toseland, Philip McCallion, Todd Gerber, Caroline Dawson
Susan Gieryic, & Vincent Guilamo-Ramos
11 Perceptions of Dementia, Caregiving, and Help Seeking among
Asian and Pacific Islander Americans
Kathryn L. Braun & Colette V. Browne
B. Benefitting From Professional Social Care
12. The Effect of Functional Disability on Service Utilization:
Implications for Long Term Care
Lee R. Slivinske, V.L. Fitch & N.W. Wingerson
13. Standardized Screening of Elderly Patients’ Needs for Social Work
Assessment in Primary Care: Unse of the SF – 36
Barbara Berkman, Susan Chauncey Horky, William Holmes, Ann Daniels
Evelyn Bonander, Suzanne Sampson, & Mark Robinson.
14. Preparation for Oncology Settings: What Hospice Social Workers
Say They Need
Pamela J. Kovacs & Laura R. Bronstein
15. The Effectiveness of Social Work With Older People and
Their Families: A Meta-analysis of Conference Presentations
Amanda M. Grenier & Kevin M. Gorey
C. Obtaining Expert Health Care
16. Creating Cost-Efficient Initiatives in Social Work Practice in the
Cardiac Program of an Acute Care Hospital
Catherine Kohm, Diane Neil-Pollinger, Fatima Sheriff
17. Short-Term Persistent Depression Following Hip Fracture:
A Risk Factor and Target to Increase Resilience in Elderly People
Sherul Itkin Zimmerman, H. David Smith, Ann Gruber-Baldini, Kathleen M. Fox,
J. Richard Hebel, John Kenzora, Gerald Felsenthal, & Jay Magaziner
18. Adequacy of Discharge Plans and Rehospitalization among
Hospitalized Dementia Patients
Sherry M. Cummings
18 Adequacy of Home Care and Hospital Readmission for
Elderly Congestive Hearts
Enola K. Proctor, Nancy Morrow-Howell, Hong Li & Peter Dore
IV. Self-Fulfillment
20. African American Grandparents Raising Grandchildren
Esme Fuller-Thomson & Meredith Minkler
21. Custodial Grandparents in Latino Families: Patterns of Service
Use and Predictors of Unmet Needs
Denise Burnette
22. HIV-Related Stigma in a Sample of HIV-Affected Older Female
African American Caregivers
Cynthia Cannon Poindexter & Nathan L. Linsk
23. Husbands Caring for Wives with Dementia: A Longtitudinal Study
Of Continuity and Change
Betty J. Kramer
V. Dignity
24. Choosing an Adult Foster Home or a Nursing Home: Residents’
Perceptions about Decision Making and Control
James Reinardy & Rosalie A. Kane
25. The Social Worker in the Emerging Field of Home Care:
Professional Activities and Ethical Concerns
Marcia Egan & Goldie Kadushin
26. Desire to Die in Terminally Ill People: A Framework for Assessment
And Intervention
Ruth Anne Van Loon
27. Preserving End-of-Life Autonomy: The Patient Self –Determination Act
And the Uniform Health Care Decisions Act
After word
Index
About the Editors
About the Contributors
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