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Dementia is one of the most devastating illnesses as it involves a progressive decline in mental functioning leading to eventual total incapacity, affecting all aspects of diagnosed individuals. This book talks about the many factors associated with dementia and its care, and the ways in which social work involvement can be most valuable.
Dementia. --- Psychiatric social work. --- Social work with older people. --- Geriatric social work --- Gerontological social work --- Social work with the aged --- Older people --- Social service, Psychiatric --- Social work with the mentally ill --- Social service --- Aphrenia --- Aphronesia --- Athymia --- Dementias --- Brain --- Neurobehavioral disorders --- Psychoses --- Diseases
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This manual is a 14-session workshop designed to help grandparents who are raising their grandchildren alone. Group leaders can revise and expand upon the themes presented here to fit the needs of their particular work groups. Some of the main issues that are explored are: useful tips for grandparents on how to communicate effectively with their grandchildren on all topics ranging from drugs and sex, to sexually transmitted diseases; helping them learn how to deal with loss and abandonment issues; helping them develop and maintain self-esteem; dealing with special behavior problems; and approp
Grandparents as parents. --- Grandparents --- Grandparent and child. --- Grandparenting. --- Grandchildren --- Grandparent behavior --- Grandparental behavior in humans --- Parenting --- Child and grandparent --- Children and grandparents --- Grandchild and grandparent --- Grandchildren and grandparents --- Grandparent and grandchild --- Grandparents and children --- Grandparents and grandchildren --- Children and older people --- Interpersonal relations --- Parents --- Parenting by grandparents --- Parenting grandparents --- Skip-generation parents --- Counseling of. --- Care.
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Most older persons desire to remain living in the community, but those requiring care are often at risk of not having their needs met. Families may find themselves unable to care for their older relatives, while formal services are often unavailable or inaccessible. Policies and services are beginning to focus on the community rather than institutions as the primary axis for care. This book examines the many factors contributing to needs for care among older persons as well as the ways in which impairments are defined and responded to by both the individual and society. Focusing on practice an
Older people --- Community health services for older people --- Care --- Services for
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As people age, they are at increased risk of having their basic human rights threatened or violated. When age is perceived as incompetence, , it can easily lead to discrimination that impacts human rights. Based on the premise that social policy must reflect human rights principles, this graduate-level textbook views the challenges associated with aging as opportunities for policy development that stresses the rights of older adults rather than needs. The text distinguishes between ""needs"" and ""rights"" and describes those policies and services that best insure that the rights of older adul
Population aging --- Aging --- Human rights. --- Basic rights --- Civil rights (International law) --- Human rights --- Rights, Human --- Rights of man --- Human security --- Transitional justice --- Truth commissions --- Aging of population --- Aging population --- Aging society --- Demographic aging --- Graying (Demography) --- Greying (Demography) --- Age distribution (Demography) --- Economic aspects. --- Law and legislation --- United States --- Social policy.
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The book is organized into three sections: theoretical perspectives, socioeconomic structures, and contexts of self and society. Leading psychologists, anthropologists, gerontologists, and sociologists present theoretical and empirical advances that forge links between the individual and the social aspects of aging. It is must reading for researchers in all gerontologic specialties, and a valuable text for graduate courses in human development, psychology of aging, and other social aspects of aging.
Child rearing. --- Grandparent and child. --- Grandparents as parents.
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