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This book places significant issues related to the health, mental health, and well-being of older adults and their caregivers within the context of social work service delivery. By presenting the research of social work scholars, all experts in specific research areas, the editors clarify the value that social work brings to the larger realm of health care for older adults and their families. Special consideration is given to such issues as case management, urban, African-American elders, grandmothers raising grandchildren, aging persons with developmental disabilities, home health care, and m

Social work with older people --- Older people --- Medical social work --- Social work education --- Services for --- Medical care --- Mental health services --- Government policy

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In this thought-provoking book, Jacki Pritchard shows how support groups for victims of elder abuse provide invaluable opportunities for the voices of older people to be heard. Following groups through a two-year period, she discusses how they were set up and the difficulties encountered and overcome.

Abused elderly. --- Older people --- Social work with older people --- Social work with older people. --- Geriatric social work --- Gerontological social work --- Social work with the aged --- Abused aged --- Abused older people --- Battered elderly --- Elderly, Abused --- Abuse of --- Prevention. --- Beyond Existing (Project) --- Abused elderly --- Battered older people --- Victims of crimes --- Abused older people.