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Older adults with cancer / Peter Maramaldi & Jonghyun Lee -- Older Adults with age-related cardiovascular disease / Amy Ai & Lynn Carrigan -- Older adults with diabetes and complications / Richard Francoeur & Jennifer Elkin -- Older adults with orthopedic and mobility conditions / Helen Miltaedis & Lenard Kaye -- Older adults with developmental disabilities / Elizabeth Lightfoot -- Older adults with age-related sensory loss / Cynthia Stuen -- Aging and functional disability / Michelle Putnam -- HIV-infected and HIV-affected older adults / Cynthcia Poindexter & Charles Emlet -- Social work practice and older adults with mental health problems. Older adults with neurological disorders without significant dementia / Gladys Gonzalez-Ramos -- Older adults suffering from significant dementia / Ron Toseland & Michael Parker -- Older adults with mental and emotional problems / Zvi Gellis -- Older adults with substance/alcohol abuse problems / Tazuko Shibusawa -- Older adults at risk for suicide / Margaret Adamek & Greta M. Yoder-Slater -- Social work practice and special populations of older adults and caregivers / David Biegel & Sylvia Liebbrandt -- Older adults and work in the 21st Century / Shelly Akabas & Lauren Gates -- The oldest old / Ruth Dunkle & Hae-Sook Jeon -- Immigrant and refugee elders / Ailee Moon & Siyon Rhee -- Mistreated and neglected elders / Susan Tomita -- Aging prisoners / Ron Aday -- Cultural diversity and social work practice with older adults. Older African Americans and other black populations / Letha Chadiha, Edna Brown, & Maria Aranda -- Older Asian Americans / Jong Won Min & Ailee Moon -- Older gays, lesbians, bisexuals, and transgender persons / Sandra Butler -- Older Latinos : a mental health perspective / Maria Aranda -- Native American elders : unique histories and special needs / Amanda Barusch -- Older adults in other minority groups / Collette Browne & Virginia Richardson -- Social work practice in palliative and end of life care. Roles of social workers in palliative and end of life care / Judy Howe & Louise Daratsos -- Psychosocial services at the end of life / Irene Gutheil & Margaret Souza -- Family and intergenerational social work practice in special caregiving situations. Caregivers to older adults / Jan Greenberg, Marsha Seltzer, & Eva Brewer -- Grandparents raising grandchildren : who are they? / Nancy Kropf & Eunkyung Yoon -- Older adults as caregivers to persons with developmental and/or physical disabilities / Philip McCallion -- Older Latino family caregivers / Sandra Magaña -- Rural African American caregiving / Iris Carlton-LaNey -- Caregiving at a distance / Michael Parker, Wesley Church, & Ronald Toseland -- Social work practice in the community with older adults and their families/caregivers. Generalized and specialized hospitals / Patricia Volland & David Keepnews -- Home care settings / Ted Benjamin & Edna Naito-Chan -- Departments of public welfare or social services / Patricia Brownell -- Geriatric care management settings / Carmen Morano & Barbara Morano -- Hospices / Deborah Waldrop -- Community mental health centers / Sherry Cummings -- Senior centers / Philip Rozario -- Health maintenance organizations and managed care companies / W. June Simmons & Susan Enguidanos -- Social service and health planning agencies / Rob Hudson -- The workplace / Shelly Akabas & Lauren Gates -- Substance abuse networks / Connie Corley, M. Gray, & R. Yakimo -- Case management services / Matthias Naleppa -- Counseling services and support groups / Leah Ruffin & Lenard Kaye -- Services to support caregivers of older adults / Sandra Crewe & Sandra Chipungu -- Advocacy and protection of older adults / Jordan Kosberg, Max Rothman, & Burton Dunlop -- Services and housing issues / Judith Gonyea -- Services for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender older adults / Bradley Zodikoff -- Services for HIV-infected and HIV-affected older adults / Charles Emlet and Cynthia Poindexter -- Social work practice with older adults and their families in long-term residential care. A social worker's historical perspective on residential care / Rosalie Kane -- Nursing homes / Betsy Vourlekis & Kelsey Simons -- Residential care settings for veterans / Marylou Guihan -- The long-term care ombudsman program / Ruth Huber ... [et al.]-- Long-term residential settings for older persons with severe and persistent mental illness / Jeanette Semke -- Culture change in long term care / Wendy Lustbader & Carter Catlett Williams -- Dementia special care units in residential care / Lisa Gwyther & Rosalie Kane -- Transitions from nursing homes to community settings / Robert Mollica -- Continuing care retirement communities / F. Ellen Netting & Cindy Wilson -- Assisted living settings / Sheryl Zimmerman, Jean Munn, & Terry Koenig -- Adult foster care and adult family care / Vera Prosper -- Congregate housing / Nancy Sheehan & Waldo Klein -- Residence-based care : New York's NORC-supportive / Fredda Vladeck -- Assessment and interventions with older adults and their families/caregivers. Comprehensive and multidimensional geriatric assessment / Scott Geron -- Abbreviated and targeted geriatric assessment / James Lubben -- Standardized measures commonly used in geriatric assessment / Rosalie Kane -- Cognitive-behavioral interventions / Kathleen McInnis-Dittrich -- Family and group interventions / Roberta Greene & Joyce Riley -- Interdisciplinary team practices / M. Joanna Mellor -- Psychodynamic psychotherapy / Denis Cronin & -- Reminiscence and life review / Berit Ingersoll-Dayton & Angela Bommarito -- Strengths-based and solutions-focused approaches to practice / Rosemary Chapin, Holly Nelson-Becker, & Kelley Macmillan -- Use of spirituality in interventions / Holly Nelson-Becker, Mitsuko Nakashima, & Edward Canda -- Approaches to empowering individuals and communities / Kevin Mahoney & Karen Zgoda -- National advocacy groups for older adults / Linda Harootyan & Gregg O'Neill -- Local, state, and federal policies/regulations affecting older adults. Federal income maintenance policies and programs / Namkee Choi -- Private retirement benefits / Rob Hudson -- Policies affecting health, mental health, and caregiving : Medicare / Ji Seon Lee -- Policies affecting health, mental health and caregiving : Medicaid / Colleen Galambos -- Policies affecting long-term care and long-term care institutions / Li-Mei Chen -- Policies affecting community-based social services, housing, and transportation / Sharon Keigher -- Policies related to competency and proxy issues / Kathleen Wilber & Gretchen Alkema -- Policies related to end of life care / Victoria Raveis -- Policies affecting families of dependent older adults / Lydia Li & Jane Rafferty -- Policies to protect the rights of older adults / Joan Davitt -- International social work and care of older adults. World population aging / James Lubben & JoAnn Damron Rodriguez -- Older adults in Australia / Elizabeth Ozanne -- Older adults in China / Iris Chi -- Older adults in Europe / Judith Phillips -- Older adults in developing nations / Osei Darkwa -- Long term care insurance in Japan / Martha Ozawa & Shingo Nakayama -- Social work research in aging. Issues in conducting social work research in aging / Amy Horowitz -- Using large datasets for research on older adults and families / Terry Lum -- Measuring client satisfaction among older adults and families / Chang-Ming Hsieh & Betsy Essex -- Current status of social work research in aging and future directions / Denise Burnette & Nancy Morrow-Howell -- Social work education and careers in aging. Strategies for implementing and sustaining gerontological curricular change in social work education / James Reinardy & Sara Zoff -- Educating social workers for an aging society : needs and approaches / Nancy Wilson -- Moving forward : developing geriatric social work competencies / JoAnn Damron Rodriguez -- Credentialing opportunities for social workers in aging / Robyn Golden & Monika White |
