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The quality of dying: how to provide good care of the ill and dying person in residential homes and hospital wards for the elderly
- Authors:
- BENDER Mike, COOPER Alison, LLOYD Christa
- Publisher:
- Winslow Press
- Publication year:
- 1990
- Pagination:
- 120p.,tables,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Bicester
Concise guide to geriatric psychiatry
- Authors:
- SPAR James E., LA RUE Asenath
- Publisher:
- American Psychiatric Press
- Publication year:
- 1990
- Pagination:
- 208p.,tables,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- Washington, DC
Contains sections on: normal ageing; diagnosis and treatment of mood disorders; dementia and delirium; anxiety disorders and late-onset psychosis; and other common mental disorders, including sleep disorders and sexual dysfunction.
Ageing in society: an introduction to social gerontology
- Editors:
- BOND John, COLEMAN Peter
- Publisher:
- Sage
- Publication year:
- 1990
- Pagination:
- 346p.,tables,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- London
Aimed at students and academics in the social sciences, and those in the health and welfare services who work with the elderly. Includes chapters on biological ageing; psychological ageing; the sociology of retirement; dependency; poverty; and demographic change.
Social work, social welfare and American society
- Authors:
- POPPLE Philip R., LEIGHNINGER Leslie
- Publisher:
- Allyn and Bacon
- Publication year:
- 1990
- Pagination:
- 690p.,tables.
- Place of publication:
- Boston, Mass.
Student textbook written in response to the new social welfare era ushered in by the Reagan presidency. Includes chapters on: social work as a profession; religion and social work; poverty and the nature and causes of poverty; child welfare; crime and criminal justice; mental health and developmental disability; health care; housing and homelessness; ageing; and responses to human diversity.