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Informationen zum Autor Lenard W Kaye, Sandra Butler Zusammenfassung Explores the challenges social workers need to overcome when working with the elder community in rural areas. Inhaltsverzeichnis About the Contributors Acknowledgments Preface PART I SECTION I. INTRODUCTORY CONCEPTS OF RURALALITY AND AGING Chapter 1. Rurality, Aging and Social Work: Setting the Context (Sandra S. Butler and Lenard W. Kaye) Chapter 2. The Demographics of Aging in Rural Perspective (Lucinda L. Roff and David L. Klemmack) SECTION II. PRACTICE DIMENSIONS OF SOCIAL WORK WITH RURAL ELDERS Chapter 3. Rural Aging: Social Work Practice Models and Intervention Dynamics (Cynthia D. Bisman) Chapter 4. Advocacy Techniques with Older Adults in Rural Environments (Sandra S. Butler and Nancy M. Webster) Chapter 5. Rural Program Planning and Development for Older Adults (Hong Li and C. Jean Blaser) Chapter 6. A Rural Perspective on Marketing Services to Older Adults (Kim K. R. McKeage and Lenard W. Kaye) SECTION III. SPECIAL POPULATIONS Chapter 7. Indigenous Elders in Rural America (Amanda Barusch and Christine TenBarge) Chapter 8. Rural African American Older Adults and the Black Helping Tradition (Mikal N. Rasheed and Janice Matthews Rasheed) Chapter 9. Rural Elderly Latinos (Steven Lozano Applewhite and Cruz Torres) Chapter 10. Rural Disabled Elders (Elizabeth DePoy and Stephen French Gilson) PART II SECTION IV. SPECIAL ISSUES AND PROGRAMS Chapter 11. Older Adult Health Promotion in Rural Settings (Stephanie J. FallCreek) Chapter 12. Older Rural Workers and Retirement Preparation (Lorraine T. Dorfman) Chapter 13. Rural Older Adults at Home (Whitney Cassity-Caywood and Ruth Huber) Chapter 14. Specialized Housing and Rural Elders (Sandra S. Butler and Donald W. Sharland) Chapter 15. Ethical Practice Issues in Rural Perspective (Tara C. Healy) SECTION V. LOOKING AHEAD: TRAINING AND POLICY RECOMMENDATIONS Chapter 16. Future Training and Education Recommendations for Rural Gerontological Social Workers (Nancy P. Kropf) Chapter 17. Rural Mental Health: A Discussion of Service Capacity Building for Rural Elders (Eloise Rathbone-McCuan and Share Bane) Chapter 18. The Aging Network and the Future of Long-Term Care (Josefina Carbonell and Larry Polivka) Appendix: Sources for More Information on Social Work with Rural Older Adults (Elizabeth Johns and Jane Harris-Bartley) Index Reference Notes Included ...
