Introduces a structured decision-making process that draws heavily from principle-based and positive ethics and provides practical applications of the APA Ethics Code while also accounting for federal laws and regulations. Detailed case examples illustrate how to apply this process in a variety of treatment contexts, including hospitals, long-term ......
This handbook is a comprehensive resource for students, scholars and practitioners who need either a broad overview of important and inter-related topics concerning the aging workforce or insightful discussions of specific issues and challenges facing people in the demographic.
Insights and Opportunities for a Growing Profession
With the rapid growth of the aging population, the need for geriatric social workers is at an all-time high. This resource for students and practitioners addresses the critical demand head-on by illuminating the many rewards, challenges, and opportunities for social workers to provide counseling, care management, and support to older adults.
Climate change is having an immediate and sometimes life-threatening impact, especially for older adults - generally speaking, people 65 or older. Older adults often face mobility, cognitive, and resource challenges, which contribute to a disproportionate number of deaths in the face of major disasters. But some challenges are less visible. ......
Everybody ages, so why not embrace it? Filled with practical advice for happy, healthy, and independent aging to understand and overcome the changes ahead. Currently, there are over 95 million Americans who are 50 years old or older, more than at any time in our history. This demographic shift is expected to continue. While recent ......
Newly revised and updated, this classic text examines the impact of social forces on the aging process. It considers aging from personal, family, community, societal, and global perspectives. This sixth edition reflects significant changes in the field of social gerontology.
Mothering Challenging Adult Children through Conflict and Change
Difficult brings to life the conflicts that arise for the mothers who are confronted with the unexpected, burdensome, and even catastrophic dependencies of their adult children associated with mental illness, substance use, or chronic unemployment.Through real stories of mothers and their challenging adult children, this book offers readable, ......
Comparative Perspectives on Aging and the Life Course
Written by leading scholars, this text on global aging is distinguished by its perspective on universal similarities and sociocultural differences across nations. This second edition presents coverage of topics in social gerontology, and expands its treatment of health behaviour, health care, families, caregiving, older workers, and retirement.
This book bridges the gap in research on elders in long-term polyamorous relationships and allows these unusual elders to tell the stories of the unique challenges and significant advantages of their relationships in their own words.
