Gerontology category: 668 books
Long-Term Care Administration and Management
Effective Practices and Quality Programs in Eldercare
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2014
"This concise guide to long-term services and supports introduces a broad array of topics and presents ideas on how to get more extensive information... A variety of graphs, tables, and charts make the information easy to understand. Overall the book is well-organized with chapters that can stand...
The Encyclopedia of Elder Care
The Comprehensive Resource on Geriatric Health and Social Care
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2017
Praise for the Third Edition:
“The third edition of this outstanding resource reflects the many advances in the care of older people that have occurred since the publication of the second edition…The vast bulk of the content is accessible and relevant to an international audience. The indexing...
Ethics, Law, and Aging Review, Volume 7
Liability Issues and Risk Management in Caring for Older Persons
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2001
Health care and human service professionals often experience anxiety about potential adverse legal repercussions for actions taken or not taken in the course of caring for patients or clients.
In this volume, professionally distinguished and diverse authors discuss both the real and perceived...
by Steve Iliffe, Jill Manthorpe
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2005
This accessible and authoritative book provides an invaluable guide to identifying, treating and preventing depression in later life.
Jill Manthorpe and Steve Iliffe take a multidisciplinary approach and employ both medical and psycho-social models of depression. The medical model is used to...
Health Care of the Aged
Needs, Policies, and Services
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
Focusing on the need for developing new service delivery models for the aged, Health Care of the Aged examines fiscal, political, and social criteria influencing this challenge of the 1990s. The aged are caught in the sweeping changes currently occuring in the financing, organizing, and delivery of...
by Carlton Munson, Ann Burack Weiss, Frances C Brennan
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
This unique book clearly depicts a need for supervision in gerontological social work settings and provides a framework for approaching supervision. Grounded in two distinct bodies of literature, social work supervision and gerontological social work, this important book thoroughly examines present...
Health Care for an Aging Society
Cost-Conscious Community Care and Self-Care Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2014
First published in 1989. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2015
Demographics reveal that the proportion of elderly individuals in the population is growing at a significant rate. Advances in medicine have allowed populations to live longer than ever; however, ensuring that these individuals have the tools necessary to sustain a productive and happy lifestyle as they...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2011
Evidence Informed Nursing with Older People is an essential text for nursing students and registered nurses working with older people who are seeking to make connections between theory, evidence and value based gerontological practice. The rapidly rising aging global population requires that more...
Nursing Home Federal Requirements, 8th Edition
Guidelines to Surveyors and Survey Protocols
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2014
"[The book] lists all the federal requirements that are evaluated by state surveyors during the annual survey visit to nursing homes and for complaint visits. The exhibit section contains forms used by surveyors to gather data during the survey visit. Visually, the format makes the regulations...
Quality Assisted Living
Informing Practice through Research
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2011
Named a 2013 Doody's Core Title!
Doody's Medical Reviews Score: 92, 4 Stars!
"[This book] is well written and achieves its aim of exploring the meaning of quality from a range of perspectives. It has a welcome focus on the views of residents, and the authors are to be congratulated...
by Elise Beaulieu, PhD, MSW
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2012
ìBeaulieuís decades of social work practice illuminate every chapter, her years of networking with colleagues in Massachusetts and nationwide enhance every paragraph, and nuggets of insight earned through successfully establishing meaningful relationships with residents and families are reflected...
Implementing Culture Change in Long-Term Care
Benchmarks and Strategies for Management and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013
"As one who is involved in the culture change movement and is trying to review the huge volume of available resources, I find it refreshing to have a book that draws it all together....I highly recommend this book to administrators who are overwhelmed at the thought of implementing change in...
The Environment for Aging
Interpersonal, Social, and Spatial Contexts
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2015
The nature and consequences of aging depend on its environmental context, and the literature does not treat the various environmental dimensions in an integrated fashion. The authors introduce a general approach to the human ecosystem, highlighting theoretical and empirical issues necessary to an...