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Gerontology for health professionals : a practice guide / edited by Florence Safford, George I. Krell.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextPublication details: Washington, DC : National Association of Social Workers, c1997.Edition: 2nd edDescription: xi, 282 p. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 0871012839 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISSN:
  • 9780871012838
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • RC952 .G47
Contents:
Working with the old, older, and oldest : understanding the experience of aging in America ; Health and illness in the later years : range of normal and pathological ; Helping the incontinent : a biopsychosocial challenge / Florence Safford -- Medication and the elderly / Mary Helen Hayden and Florence Safford -- Differential assessment of dementia and depression in elderly people / Florence Safford -- Case management with the elderly / Karen M. Sowers-Hoag -- Working with traditional and nontraditional families of elderly people / Carol R. Odell and Florence Safford -- Ethnic issues in health care delivery to elderly people : specific focus on black Americans and Hispanics / Terry Conward and Gema G. Hernandez -- Hidden problem of elder abuse : clues and strategies for health care workers / Jordan I. Kosberg -- Tools for ethical reasoning in long-term care management / Martha Pelaez -- HIV/AIDS and the elderly / James H. Riley -- Death, bereavement, loss, and growth : two perspectives / Mary O'Donnell and Florence Safford -- Advance directives : choices and challenges / Florence Safford -- Impact of the elderly on the health care system and its implications for the delivery of social services ; Recapitulation of workplace guidelines / George I. Krell.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Working with the old, older, and oldest : understanding the experience of aging in America ; Health and illness in the later years : range of normal and pathological ; Helping the incontinent : a biopsychosocial challenge / Florence Safford --
Medication and the elderly / Mary Helen Hayden and Florence Safford --
Differential assessment of dementia and depression in elderly people / Florence Safford --
Case management with the elderly / Karen M. Sowers-Hoag --
Working with traditional and nontraditional families of elderly people / Carol R. Odell and Florence Safford --
Ethnic issues in health care delivery to elderly people : specific focus on black Americans and Hispanics / Terry Conward and Gema G. Hernandez --
Hidden problem of elder abuse : clues and strategies for health care workers / Jordan I. Kosberg --
Tools for ethical reasoning in long-term care management / Martha Pelaez --
HIV/AIDS and the elderly / James H. Riley --
Death, bereavement, loss, and growth : two perspectives / Mary O'Donnell and Florence Safford --
Advance directives : choices and challenges / Florence Safford --
Impact of the elderly on the health care system and its implications for the delivery of social services ; Recapitulation of workplace guidelines / George I. Krell.

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