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Nursing home residents with borderline personality traits: clinical social work interventions
- Authors:
- HIMELICK Allison J., WALSH Joseph
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Gerontological Social Work, 37(1), 2002, pp.49-64.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
Persons with borderline personality disorder often carry symptoms of that disorder into old age. Because this fact is not widely recognized, health care professionals including social workers often fail to appropriately assess and intervene with these persons in long-term care settings. The purposes of this paper are to review themanifestations of borderline personality traits in older adults and to describe how social workers can develop effective intervention strategies with them in long-term care settings. Two case studies of nursing home residents are included.