The Oxford Handbook of Social Work in Health and Aging by Daniel Kaplan,Barbara Berkman

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By Daniel Kaplan,Barbara Berkman

This moment variation of the guide addresses the evolving interdisciplinary health and wellbeing care context and the wider social paintings perform surroundings, in addition to advances within the wisdom base which courses social paintings provider supply in health and wellbeing and getting older. This contains contemporary improvements within the theories of gerontology, techniques in scientific interventions, and significant advancements within the social regulations that constitution and finance wellbeing and fitness care and senior companies. additionally, the coverage reforms of the 2010 sufferer safety and cheap Care Act set in movement a bunch of adjustments within the usa healthcare method with in all probability profound implications for the courses and providers which offer care to older adults and their households. during this quantity, the main skilled and sought after gerontological future health care students tackle numerous populations that social employees serve, and the arenas during which they perform, by way of certain techniques of most sensible practices for an array of actual and psychological medical conditions. The volume's unparalleled recognition to range, healthiness care traits, and implications for perform, examine, coverage make the booklet a huge occasion within the box of gerontological social paintings. this can be a Must-Read for all social paintings social paintings educators, practitioners, and scholars attracted to older adults and their families.

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