Elder Practice - A Multidisciplinary Approach to Working With Older Adults in

The authors call for collaboration among the private practitioners, agencies, and volunteer organizations; enumerate the myriad problems--health, legal, financial, spiritual, and social--that affect elderly adults; and offer practical guidance on how to assess client problems, establish referral networks, and maintain collaborative linkages.

About the author

Nieli Langer is associate professor and director of the Social Gerontology Program at the School of Nursing, Incarnate Word College, San Antonio, Texas.

Summary

This text addresses the issue of how to serve the growing population of elderly people who spend their later years as members of the community rather than residents of an institutional facility. A team of social work professionals proposes a model which would afford comparable co-ordinated care.

Product details

• Authors: etc., Nieli Langer, Ilene Nathanson, Terry Tirrito, Terry/ Nathanson Tirrito
• Assisted by: Leon Ginsberg (Editor)
• Publisher: Univ of south carolina press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.06.1996
• EAN: 9781570030758
• ISBN: 978-1-57003-075-8
• No. of pages: 202
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 235 mm x 13 mm
• Series: Social Problems and Social Iss; Social Problems & Social Issues; Social Problems and Social Iss
• Subjects: Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Lifestyle, personal development; Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political system