Self-Neglecting Elders - A Clinical Dilemma

This volume is the first comprehensive work on the prevalent geriatric problem of self-neglect. It contains original clinical research and analyzes the medical, psychological, and social aspects of geriatric self-neglect from various perspectives of professionals within the geriatric field.

List of contents

Foreword
Preface
Overview
Elder Self-Neglect: a Blurred Concept
A General Framework for Elder Self-Neglect
Systems Considerations
Ethical Issues in Working with Self-Neglect
Psychiatric and Biomedical Considerations in Self-Neglect
A Family Systems Perspective of Self-Neglect
Special Risks and Subgroups
Institutional Care Settings and Self-Neglect
Older Developmentally Disabled Adults and Self-Neglect
Geriatric Alcoholism and Self-Neglect
Geriatric Protective Services and Self-Neglect
Conclusion
Research and Clinical Directions in Self-Neglect
Bibliography
Index

About the author

ELOISE RATHBONE-McCUAN is Associate Chief of Social Work Service at the Colmery-O'Neil V.A. Medical Center and Adjunct Professor of Social Welfare at the University of Kansas. She is co-author (with Joan Hashimi) of Isolated Elders (1982) and co-editor (with Betty Havens) of North American Elders (Greenwood Press, 1988).

DOROTHY R. FABIAN is a gerontologist-consultant with the Geriatric Hip Fracture Program at the Hospital for Joint Diseases Orthopedic Institute in New York. She has directed programs in long-term care and case management in support of community living for frail elderly and is the co-editor (with Anne Somers) of The Geriatric Imperative (1981).

Product details

• Assisted by: Dorothy R. Fabian (Editor), Fabian Dorothy R. (Editor), Eloise Rathborn- McCuan (Editor), Eloise Rathbone-McCuan (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 7 to 17
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.06.1992
• EAN: 9780865690479
• ISBN: 978-0-86569-047-9
• No. of pages: 216
• Weight: 539 g
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works; FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Eldercare, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gerontology, MEDICAL / Geriatrics, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Services, Care of the elderly, Geriatric medicine, Age groups: the elderly, Current Events and Issues: Society