Health Promotion and Aging
Author: David Haber
Publisher: Springer Publishing Company
Published: 2013-03-26
Total Pages: 535
ISBN-13: 0826199178
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Empowering the Elderly?
Author: Amy Clotworthy
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Published: 2020-07-31
Total Pages: 263
ISBN-13: 3839452112
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHealth programmes that offer ›help to self-help‹ are meant to empower ageing adults to remain independent and self-sufficient at home for as long as possible. But what happens when the private home becomes a political realm in which state intervention and individual agency happen simultaneously? Based on 15 months of ethnographic fieldwork in a Danish municipality, Amy Clotworthy describes how both health professionals and elderly citizens negotiate the political discourses about health and ageing that frame their relational encounter. By elucidating some of the conflicts, paradoxes, and negotiations that occur, she provides important insights into the contemporary organisation of eldercare.
Empowering Social Workers for Practice with Vulnerable Older Adults
Author: Barbara A. Soniat
Publisher: NASW Press
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780871013958
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Mental Health and Substance Use Workforce for Older Adults
Author: Institute of Medicine
Publisher: National Academies Press
Published: 2012-10-26
Total Pages: 396
ISBN-13: 0309256658
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAt least 5.6 million to 8 million-nearly one in five-older adults in America have one or more mental health and substance use conditions, which present unique challenges for their care. With the number of adults age 65 and older projected to soar from 40.3 million in 2010 to 72.1 million by 2030, the aging of America holds profound consequences for the nation. For decades, policymakers have been warned that the nation's health care workforce is ill-equipped to care for a rapidly growing and increasingly diverse population. In the specific disciplines of mental health and substance use, there have been similar warnings about serious workforce shortages, insufficient workforce diversity, and lack of basic competence and core knowledge in key areas. Following its 2008 report highlighting the urgency of expanding and strengthening the geriatric health care workforce, the IOM was asked by the Department of Health and Human Services to undertake a complementary study on the geriatric mental health and substance use workforce. The Mental Health and Substance Use Workforce for Older Adults: In Whose Hands? assesses the needs of this population and the workforce that serves it. The breadth and magnitude of inadequate workforce training and personnel shortages have grown to such proportions, says the committee, that no single approach, nor a few isolated changes in disparate federal agencies or programs, can adequately address the issue. Overcoming these challenges will require focused and coordinated action by all.
Social Work Practice with Older Adults (First Edition)
Author: Dawn Joosten-Hagye
Publisher: Cognella Academic Publishing
Published: 2019-03-11
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9781516528028
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSocial Work Practice with Older Adults: An Evidence-Based Approach helps future social workers identify effective evidence-based treatment options for aging populations. It helps readers cultivate the skills needed to successfully engage, assess, intervene, evaluate, and provide advocacy at micro, mezzo, and macro levels to older adults and their families. Emphasizing intersectionality theory, the text encourages readers to consider the context and intersecting diversity factors of the older adult client and involve them in treatment decision plans, empowering older adults to select culturally preferred and highly meaningful care. Students also learn the power of interdisciplinary collaboration and interagency coordination. Each chapter features case studies and a guide for framing community resources and other helping services for clients. Additionally, the book highlights issues and opportunities social workers are likely to encounter, including aging in prison settings, homelessness and sexual health, end-of-life issues, macro practice advocacy skills, and more. Social Work Practice with Older Adults challenges students to synthesize contextual, intersectional, and biopsychosocial/spiritual assessments to create effective treatment plans and apply appropriate interventions to aging populations. It is ideal for students studying social work and related disciplines.
Empowering Older Adults
Author: Elinor B. Waters
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 272
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKCommunication for Successful Aging
Author: Howard Giles
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2021-11-22
Total Pages: 154
ISBN-13: 1000476057
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis essential volume explores the vital role of communication in the aging process and how this varies for different social groups and cultural communities. It reveals how communication can empower people in the process of aging, and that how we communicate about age is critically important to – and is at the heart of – aging successfully. Giles et al. confront the uncertainty and negativity surrounding "aging" – a process with which we all have to cope – by expertly placing communication at the core of the process. They address the need to avoid negative language, discuss the lifespan as an evolving adventure, and introduce a new theory of successful aging – the communication ecology model of successful aging (CEMSA). They explore the research on key topics including: age stereotypes, age identities, and messages of ageism; the role of culture, gender, ethnicity, and being a member of marginalized groups; the ingredients of intergenerational communication; depiction of aging and youth in the media; and how and why talk about death and dying can be instrumental in promoting control over life’s demands. Communication for Successful Aging is essential reading for graduate students of psychology, human development, gerontology, and communication, scholars in the social sciences, and all of us concerned with this complex academic and highly personal topic.
Empowering Older People
Author: Daniel Thursz
Publisher: Burns & Oates
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 238
ISBN-13: 9780304334650
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIdentifies existing barriers and proposes successful means for overcoming obstacles by generating income, suitable housing, and supportive associations and services for the older citizen worldwide.
Leadership for Older Adults
Author: Sandra A. Cusack
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-06-17
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 1135062242
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis study tells the tale of two retirement organizations that reflect common leadership issues throughout the western world, issues that are emerging in many developing countries and have yet to be experienced in others. Wherever rapid population ageing is coupled with a view of old people as useless and a burden, challenging questions arise: how do we develop the resources and leadership potential of our ageing population? How do we turn old age from an expensive wasteland into a fertile period of growth and development?
Measuring, Understanding and Improving Wellbeing Among Older People
Author: Sefa Awaworyi Churchill
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2020-03-20
Total Pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9811523533
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow can we be happier, healthier and more satisfied in life? This edited collection examines various dimensions of wellbeing among older people, including its measurement; social, environmental and economic determinants; and how research can be translated into policy to improve quality of life for older people. With an increasingly ageing population across countries and an increasing population of older adults, there is growing interest in improving older people’s ability to live healthily and happily. With a focus on retirement and aged care, this book is important reading for those interested in Welfare Economics, Health Economics and Development.
