Social Work Practice: a Unitary Approach

Résumé du livre

FOUNDATIONS OF PRACTICAL GERONTOLOGY SECOND EDITION-REVISED Edited by ROSAMONDE R. BOYD and CHARLES G. OAKES. A revised edition of the book that Library Journal "recommended as a resource for specialists, for seminars in gerontology, and for concerned individuals." The 1971 White House Conference on Aging revealed that a significant transition from the more theoretical to more practical considerations of coping with the major problems of the elderly had occurred during the preceding decade. This shift in emphasis and increasing activity at all levels of government make appropriate and imperative this revised edition of Foundations of Practical Gerontology. As a sourcebook and a manual, it can be used to inform and challenge professional staff members and lay volunteers in program planning and implementation. As a textbook for courses in gerontology, it serves both to instruct and to guide students interested in one of the newer fields of service and professionalization. For all of us, it provides new insights into the aging process. New chapters discuss preretirement counseling, volunteerism, and retirement villages. The chapters on sociomedical problems and aging roles have been extensively revised and rewritten, and the remaining chapters reflect the advances of recent years.