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Abstract A 1972 study of 29 inpatients and 29 day-care participants in the Levindale Hebrew Geriatric Center and Hospital and the Levindale Adult Treatment Center found that patterns and level of social role performance varied both... more
Abstract A 1972 study of 29 inpatients and 29 day-care participants in the Levindale Hebrew Geriatric Center and Hospital and the Levindale Adult Treatment Center found that patterns and level of social role performance varied both between and within groups. As a result of ...
Research Interests: Psychology, Geriatrics, Socialization, Group Processes, Medicine, and 8 moreHumans, Role, Female, Male, The, Clinical Sciences, Day Care, and Day Care Center
... Page 2. 190 DETECTION OF ABUSED ELDERLY PARENTS Am J Psychiatry 139:2, February 1982 ... described about the impact of sex roles on wife abuse does not take into account potential differences in women's sex role behaviors between... more
... Page 2. 190 DETECTION OF ABUSED ELDERLY PARENTS Am J Psychiatry 139:2, February 1982 ... described about the impact of sex roles on wife abuse does not take into account potential differences in women's sex role behaviors between the different life stages. ...
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Rural mental health service resources and intervention approaches to meet the needs of rural elders are in a state of flux. Even within this fluctuation, some relatively stable and beneficial resources are available to rural elders and... more
Rural mental health service resources and intervention approaches to meet the needs of rural elders are in a state of flux. Even within this fluctuation, some relatively stable and beneficial resources are available to rural elders and their families. This article identifies those resources within the context of the growing influence of managed behavioral health care. Systems of managed care are directing the types of mental health services available and their patterns of coordination with other health and social service resources used by rural elders.
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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... more
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
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The special and extensive social needs of older women have been seriously neglected by the profession and social work education. This article discusses a five-year MSW-level training project that designed and offered a curriculum on the... more
The special and extensive social needs of older women have been seriously neglected by the profession and social work education. This article discusses a five-year MSW-level training project that designed and offered a curriculum on the mental health of older women in graduate social work education. The final results of that pilot program are presented, including a summary of the professional practice rationale, curriculum content, and some implications for the broader social work education arena.
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There is an increasing need both for effective interventions with the elderly and for social workers trained in clinical gerontology. This paper discusses an attempt to integrate gerontological knowledge, clinical knowledge, and clinical... more
There is an increasing need both for effective interventions with the elderly and for social workers trained in clinical gerontology. This paper discusses an attempt to integrate gerontological knowledge, clinical knowledge, and clinical experience in a master's-level curriculum and to develop the task-centered model as an effective base for social work with the elderly.
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There is increased domestic and international attention to, and diversified focus upon, the maltreatment of elders. This agenda is helping to further explicate the broad spectrum of what constitutes elder endangerment. The World Health... more
There is increased domestic and international attention to, and diversified focus upon, the maltreatment of elders. This agenda is helping to further explicate the broad spectrum of what constitutes elder endangerment. The World Health Organization (WHO) currently recognizes elder maltreatment, both at home and within institutional care settings, as a most critical issue within the global scope on mental health issues affecting older adults.Research has helped to characterize the most common features among self-neglect cases and refine the profile(s) of very high-risk, self-neglecting persons. Conditions of self-neglect may be present in substantiated cases in which there are multiple forms of caregiver abuse, neglect, or exploitation. Cases of self-neglect may occur in hospitals and long-term-care settings, however, extremely self-neglecting elders most often live alone in community-a high-risk situation fraught with residential environmental hazards; the probable presence of major...
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Let's read! We will often find out this sentence everywhere. When still being a kid, mom used to order us to always read, so did the teacher. Some books are fully read in a week and we need the obligation to support reading. What... more
Let's read! We will often find out this sentence everywhere. When still being a kid, mom used to order us to always read, so did the teacher. Some books are fully read in a week and we need the obligation to support reading. What about now? Do you still love reading? Is reading only for you who have obligation? Absolutely not! We here offer you a new book enPDFd isolated elders health and social intervention to read.
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This article describes demographic and economic factors that impinge on the health care of elderly women. Policies that control access to and utilization of health and long term care services are discussed. Some of the shortcomings of... more
This article describes demographic and economic factors that impinge on the health care of elderly women. Policies that control access to and utilization of health and long term care services are discussed. Some of the shortcomings of past policies are noted and current social reform efforts aimed at greater policy equity for elder women are reviewed.
Research Interests: Social Policy, Poverty, Health Care, Women, Housing, and 15 moreHumans, Retirement, United States, Female, Income, Medicare, Health Status, Medicaid, Aged, Women Health, Public health systems and services research, Patient Advocacy, Public Policy, Delivery of Health Care, and Paediatrics and reproductive medicine
The special and extensive social needs of older women have been seriously neglected by the profession and social work education. This article discusses a five-year MSW-level training project that designed and offered a curriculum on the... more
The special and extensive social needs of older women have been seriously neglected by the profession and social work education. This article discusses a five-year MSW-level training project that designed and offered a curriculum on the mental health of older women in graduate social work education. The final results of that pilot program are presented, including a summary of the professional practice rationale, curriculum content, and some implications for the broader social work education arena.
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This article addresses some of the recent information that has been collected on the issues of alcohol misuse in later stages of the life span. It discusses the risks to both long-term alcoholics who have grown old with their drinking... more
This article addresses some of the recent information that has been collected on the issues of alcohol misuse in later stages of the life span. It discusses the risks to both long-term alcoholics who have grown old with their drinking problem and the issues facing those persons for whom the risks of alcohol become apparent in later life. Three cases are included to illustrate the different consequences of alcoholism in the family as it impacts on separate members and generations within the family system. Authors discuss some principles of intervention and prevention that can and should be applied by different mental health and health practitioners that work with older persons and their family groups.
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Patients with end-stage renal disease are being kept alive by dialysis treatment which may be provided either in an institution or in the patient's home. However, medical advancements have outstripped the ability of the treatment team... more
Patients with end-stage renal disease are being kept alive by dialysis treatment which may be provided either in an institution or in the patient's home. However, medical advancements have outstripped the ability of the treatment team to insure the quality of life for these long-term patients. Although the predominant pattern of care continues to be the hospital- or institution-based unit, an attempt is being made by both patients and physicians to make home dialysis a more viable alternative. There are two major barriers to the large-scale effectiveness of treatment by home dialysis: 1) lack of criteria for the selection of candidates, and 2) lack of a continuing supportive service system. Home care requires a total understanding of the psychosocial functioning of the patient and the family.
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Increasing interest is manifest in the development of alternative models of counseling for older persons. Irrespective of the particular model used, the counseling of aged persons who have emotional and psychologic problems may require a... more
Increasing interest is manifest in the development of alternative models of counseling for older persons. Irrespective of the particular model used, the counseling of aged persons who have emotional and psychologic problems may require a treatment plan for health, mental health, and social services, to resolve the problems and to assess the functional limitations. Health and mental health centers employing both professional and nonprofessional counselors need to determine the value of adding outreach components to their services, and agencies which already have outreach programs may need to determine their relevance and effectiveness. Effective outreach requires a high level of gerontologic knowledge and clinical skills with aged patients. Agencies and clinics can design and implement mechanisms for supporting the elderly as they make use of multiple sources of service. Mobilization of the family and other informal helping networks in the community, the establishment of better coord...
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Throughout the Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA), the largest single employer of professional social workers, there is increasing demand for clinicians to be accountable for the outcomes of client intervention. This article discusses... more
Throughout the Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA), the largest single employer of professional social workers, there is increasing demand for clinicians to be accountable for the outcomes of client intervention. This article discusses how issues of accountability threaten the leadership role of the social work profession in the DVA extended care services continuum. Many innovations are needed to prepare direct
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... Early elder abuse research is reviewed, and an abuse profile is discussed. Physical abuse is most commonly sexual, including burns, beatings, hittings, and whippings. Physical abuse also includes neglect and delay in care delivery. ...
Geriatric day care is currently receiving considerable attention as an alternative to institutionalization for a certain segment of our nation's chronically ill and impaired elderly. There are, however, few clear descriptions of... more
Geriatric day care is currently receiving considerable attention as an alternative to institutionalization for a certain segment of our nation's chronically ill and impaired elderly. There are, however, few clear descriptions of day care and even fewer programmatic guidelines. In an effort to clear up some of the issues, this paper (a) defines geriatric day care and describes various types of geriatric day care centers, (b) discusses the place of day care in the long-term care continuum, and (c) describes the Levindale Adult Day Treatment Center as one model of geriatric day care.
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... Cathy King Pike University of South Carolina Walter W. Hudson Florida State University Douglas L. Murphy Eloise Rathbone McCuan Comery-O ... 1982 ; CY Chen & Michael, 1993; SA Chen & Michael, 1993; Ulosevich, Michael, &... more
... Cathy King Pike University of South Carolina Walter W. Hudson Florida State University Douglas L. Murphy Eloise Rathbone McCuan Comery-O ... 1982 ; CY Chen & Michael, 1993; SA Chen & Michael, 1993; Ulosevich, Michael, & Bachelor, 1991; Wallbrown, Elliott, McLoughlin, & ...
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This article reports on a workshop in which the major focus was a review of the barriers that prevent access to the array of community-based services available to the rural elderly. The demographics of the elderly were outlined and key... more
This article reports on a workshop in which the major focus was a review of the barriers that prevent access to the array of community-based services available to the rural elderly. The demographics of the elderly were outlined and key components of the service system described. Attention was given to access hospital-based care, the closing of hospitals and the reasons for bypassing rural hospitals for those in large towns or cities. Special emphasis also was given to mental health services and their uneven accessibility. A review of the policy implications closed the workshop.
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This paper describes and analyzes a pilot social work education program in the mental health of older women. It discusses the past, present, and probable future developmental activities related to planning, implementation, and evaluation... more
This paper describes and analyzes a pilot social work education program in the mental health of older women. It discusses the past, present, and probable future developmental activities related to planning, implementation, and evaluation of the model sponsored by the George Warren Brown School of Social Work. The preliminary outcomes of this five‐year project may offer some guidelines and alternatives