Gerontological Social Work by Merl C Jr Hokenstad
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Gerontological Social Work


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In this fascinating book, leading international experts in gerontology and social work examine the conditions of older people in their respective native lands--Australia, Canada, West Germany, Great Britain, Israel, Japan, the Netherlands, and Sweden. In response to the need for world-wide sharing of information and research on one of the most dramatic developments of the twentieth century in the United States and throughout the western world--the aging of the populations--these professionals offer an international dimension and cross-cultural knowledge to social gerontology and gerontological social work. Emphasis is placed on the social service delivery system in each country together with an analysis of social work roles and activities. The informative articles include demographic notes, the socioeconomic characteristics of older people in each country, and the author's forecast of trends, issues, and future directions. These timely reviews of what has worked elsewhere may spark greater creativity among educators and practitioners in social work and gerontology in finding alternative solutions to the many problems professionals face as advocates and service providers for older adults.
Social work practitioners and educators examine social services for seniors in eight different industrialized countries. Each chapter--focusing on a different country--features:

  • a review of the social service delivery system, providing information about its historical evolution and current organization
  • a look at home care programs, as well as community based and institutionally based services
  • a review of service availability and accesibility with consideration of how social services are coordinated with health care and other human services
  • special attention is given to social work roles within the social service system, including an examination of direct service and planning/management roles
  • a consideration of the importance and usefulness of social work in service provision for each country
  • a brief analysis of current trends and furture directions for gerontological social work and social services for the elderly. The cross-national perspectives will highlight global trends in the industrial world and illuminate distinctions among countries, based upon a particular historical, political, and cultural context. Gerontological Social Work provides a wider base for understanding and evaluating policies and programs in one's own country. Each analysis suggests new and different ways of solving problems and providing services. Social work professionals worldwide will learn successful methods of enabling the elderly to maintain maximum self-sufficiency and participate actively in society, thus insuring improved quality of life.

About the Author:

Merl C. Hokenstad, PhD, MSW, is the Ralph S. and Dorothy P. Schmitt Professor in the School of Applied Social Sciences, Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. He also serves as President of the Council on Social Work Education. While engaged in doctoral study in social welfare at Brandeis University, he served as a research associate on a Ford Foundation project on community planning for the elderly. Since that time he has been the principal investigator or participant in a number of studies on community planning, community services, and home care for the elderly. In the field of practice he has developed health and homemaker services for older adults and as Dean of the School of Applied Social Sciences, he developed curricula in a number of emerging areas of social work concern, including gerontology. His teaching assignments include doctoral seminars on gerontological research and health and social service delivery systems and graduate courses on policies and programs for the aging. Dr. Hokenstad is widely recognized for his leadership in internationalizing the social work curriculum in the United States.,
Katherine A. Kendall, PhD, MA, is Executive Secretary to a newly appointed Council of Advisors to Hunter College and the Lois and Samuel Silberman Fund on behalf of the School of Social Work. As the first occupant of the Henry and Lucy Moses Chair of Social Work at Hunter College, she has recently completed a year as a Distinguished Visiting Professor at the School of Social Work. Dr. Kendall is internationally known as the former Secretary-General and the current Honorary President of the International Association of Schools of Social Work and former Executive Director of the Council on Social Work Education. Consulting and working with schools of social work throughout the United States and in every continent, she has been instrumental in opening up the social work curriculum to new areas of practice and in effectively relating social work educat


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780866567657
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 16 mm
  • Weight: 521 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0866567658
  • Publisher Date: 09 Dec 1988
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 200
  • Series Title: English
  • Sub Title: International Perspectives
  • Width: 152 mm


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