Forgotten Aged e-bog
296,28 DKK
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This helpful book explores mental health issues relating to elders who do not fit into the usual mold for research--white, married or widowed, urban or suburban persons with adult children. The Forgotten Aged focuses on those groups of elders often overlooked in gerontological literature--elder African-Americans, rural aged, gay and lesbian aged, parents of developmentally disabled offspring, o...
E-bog
296,28 DKK
Forlag
Routledge
Udgivet
12 marts 2020
Længde
116 sider
Genrer
History of scholarship (principally of social sciences and humanities)
Sprog
English
Format
pdf
Beskyttelse
LCP
ISBN
9781317837565
This helpful book explores mental health issues relating to elders who do not fit into the usual mold for research--white, married or widowed, urban or suburban persons with adult children. The Forgotten Aged focuses on those groups of elders often overlooked in gerontological literature--elder African-Americans, rural aged, gay and lesbian aged, parents of developmentally disabled offspring, older developmentally disabled persons themselves, and orphan elders (those who do not have close family members who can serve as caretakers). The book offers how to advice on issues such as outreach, intervention, residential placement and transition, assessment, psychotherapy, and team building to help readers learn effective ways of helping elderly persons from these various groups. With an optimistic tone, it explores how more attention and resources, combined with flexible modifications of programs and practices, can yield favorable results for everyone involved. In The Forgotten Aged, authors examine a variety of pertinent topics including:assessment of dementia and depression in African-Americansmultidisciplinary team outreach to elderly living in rural areastherapeutic issues with gay and lesbian agedresidential transitions for developmentally disabled elderlyhelping aging parents of developmentally disabled offspringintervention with orphan elderly with Alzheimer's diseaseSocial workers, psychologists, psychiatrists, geriatricians, nurses, and counselors involved in providing support and care for elderly persons will find The Forgotten Aged a useful guide in their daily work and decisionmaking. This book can also serve as an enlightening supplementary text in courses that study aging and the elderly.