Wendy Hulko, Ilyan Ferrer, Shari Brotman, Louise Stern

Gerontological Social Work in Action (eBook, ePUB)

Anti-Oppressive Practice with Older Adults, their Families, and Communities

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Gerontological Social Work in Action introduces 'anti-oppression gerontology' (AOG), a critical approach to social work with older adults, their families, and communities.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 292
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Dezember 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351801539
• Artikelnr.: 58356131

Autorenporträt

Wendy Hulko is an associate professor in the School of Social Work and Human Service at Thompson Rivers University. She conducts interdisciplinary research on aging and health with equity-seeking groups, including Secwepemc Elders, racialized older adults, and rural residents. Wendy is co-editor of Indigenous Peoples and Dementia: New Understandings of Memory Loss and Memory Care, published by UBC Press in 2019.

Shari Brotman is an associate professor at the McGill School of Social Work. Her research explores issues of access and equity in the design and delivery of health and social care services to older adults, their families, and communities (racialized, immigrant, and LGBTQ communities). Shari is a member of the Centre for Research and Expertise in Social Gerontology (CREGES).

Louise Stern is the Chair of Social Work at Vancouver Island University. She was a practicing social worker for over 20 years in the field of gerontological social work. Her current research and teaching interests are focussed on trauma and aging, food security issues and older adults, and gerontological curriculum development.

Ilyan Ferrer is an assistant professor in the University of Calgary's Faculty of Social Work. His research focuses on aging, immigration/migration, and caring labour of racialized communities in Canada. Ilyan also works with qualitative and oral history methodologies and anti-oppressive social work theory and practice.

Inhaltsangabe

List of figures and tables
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part 1: Shifting our lens on gerontological social work
1. Age/ism: age as a category of difference
2. Theorizing later life and social work praxis
3. Sites and sectors of health and social care
Part 2: Doing AOP social work with older adults
4. Deconstructing risk and frailty
5. Moral, legal, and ethical issues
6. Who cares about caregiving?
7. Dementia, personhood, and citizenship as practice
8. Mapping trauma across the life course
9. Mental health, mental wellness, and substance mis/use
10. Addressing mistreatment and violence
Part 3: Re-visioning gerontological social work
11. Building inclusive communities
12. Policy and planning for an aging society
13. Everyday lives and realities
Concluding thoughts
Index