Nursing Home Social Work Research

Herausgeber: Bonifas, Robin P.; Bern-Klug, Mercedes

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book focuses on characteristics, roles, and training needs of social service delivery providers in leadership roles in U.S. skilled nursing facilities. This collection will benefit students, academics and researchers.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 182
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Dezember 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 260mm x 183mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 549g
• ISBN-13: 9781032508993
• ISBN-10: 103250899X
• Artikelnr.: 68712166

Autorenporträt

Robin Bonifas is Professor and Chair of the Social Work Department at Indiana State University, USA. She has over 15 years' experience working with older adults in long-term care and inpatient psychiatric settings. She is a John A. Hartford Faculty Scholar and the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Gerontological Social Work. Mercedes Bern-Klug is Professor at the School of Social Work, University of Iowa, USA. She specializes in gerontology, with a focus on long-term services and supports for older persons and persons with disabilities She conducts research on how social workers and other health care providers can support older adults and their family members with the psychosocial implications of with medical decision-making in long-term care settings.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Nursing Home Social Services Research 1. About a Third of
Nursing Home Social Services Directors Have Earned a Social Work Degree and
License 2. Serious Mental Illness in Nursing Homes: Roles and Perceived
Competence of Social Services Directors 3. Social Services Involvement in
Care Transitions and Admissions in Nursing Homes 4. Dementia Tops Training
Needs of Nursing Home Social Services Directors; Discharge Responsibilities
Are Common Core Functions of the Department 5. Structural Characteristics
of Nursing Homes and Social Service Directors that Influence Their
Engagement in Disaster Preparedness Processes 6. Social Service Directors'
Roles and Self-Efficacy in Suicide Risk Management in US Nursing Homes 7.
More Evidence that Federal Regulations Perpetuate Unrealistic Nursing Home
Social Services Staffing Ratios 8. Barriers to Psychosocial Care in Nursing
Homes as Reported by Social Services Directors
9. Dementia Care Involvement and Training Needs of Social Services
Directors in U.S. Nursing Homes