Social Work and Geriatric Services

Herausgeber: Palmer, Sharon Duca

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This title includes a number of Open Access chapters. Social Work & Geriatric Services examines many facets concerning the care of the elderly. Topics discussed include chronic disease prevalence, conducting research with older people, cognitive functioning and social integration, exercise for the elderly, suicide and depression in the elderly, smoking cessation for elderly clients, health screening, and more.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Apple Academic Press
• Seitenzahl: 342
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. März 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 521g
• ISBN-13: 9781774632512
• ISBN-10: 1774632519
• Artikelnr.: 69925609

Autorenporträt

Sharon Duca Palmer, CSW, LMSW, has worked in a variety of settings in her twenty-year career as a social worker. Since 1990, she has been a school social worker at the ACLD Kramer Learning Center in Bay Shore, New York. She is also a Certified Field Instructor at the Adelphi University, School of Social Work in Garden City, New York.

Inhaltsangabe

Chronic Disease Prevalence and Care Among the Elderly in Urban and Rural
Beijing, China-A 10/66 Dementia Research Group Cross-Sectional Survey.
Challenges to Conducting Research with Older People Living in Nursing
Homes. Association Between Subjective Memory Complaints and Health Care
Utilisation: A Three-Year Follow Up. Cognitive Function, Social Integration
and Mortality in a U.S. National Cohort Study of Older Adults. Magnitude of
Potentially Inappropriate Prescribing in Germany Among Older Patients with
Generalized Anxiety Disorder. Social Vulnerability, Frailty and Mortality
in Elderly People. Impact of Exercise in Community-Dwelling Older Adults.
Social Participation and Independence in Activities of Daily Living: A
Cross Sectional Study. Age-Related Attenuation of Dominant Hand
Superiority. Are Sedatives and Hypnotics Associated with Increased Risk of
Suicide in the Elderly? Mental Rotation of Faces in Healthy Aging and
Alzheimer's Disease. Preventing Falls in Older Multifocal Glasses Wearers
by Providing Single-Lens Distance Glasses: The Protocol for the VISIBLE
Randomized Controlled Trial. Emotional Stress as a Trigger of Falls Leading
to Hip or Pelvic Fracture. Results from the ToFa Study-A Case-Crossover
Study Among Elderly People in Stockholm, Sweden. Health Status Transitions
in Community-Living Elderly with Complex Care Needs: A Latent Class
Approach. Effectiveness of a Mobile Smoking Cessation Service in Reaching
Elderly Smokers and Predictors of Quitting. Factors Associated with
Self-Rated Health in Older People Living in Institutions. Discomfort and
Agitation in Older Adults with Dementia. Factors Influencing Elderly
Women's Mammography Screening Decisions: Implications for Counseling. Do
Social Networks Affect the Use of Residential Aged Care Among Older
Australians? Index.