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Spirituality and ageing
- Editor:
- JEWELL Albert
- Publisher:
- Jessica Kingsley
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 191p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Presents the experience of ageing as an opportunity for spiritual reflection and affirmation of life. Contains contributions from religious and spiritual leaders from a range of different backgrounds.
What a difference a year makes
- Author:
- MASTERS Sarah
- Journal article citation:
- Professional Social Work, December 1999, pp.10-11.
- Publisher:
- British Association of Social Workers
Presents the views of a number of key figures in the world of social care who comment on the impact of the UN International Year of Older Persons on services for older people, raising awareness and its effect on older people themselves.
Friendship and social support: the importance of role identity to aging adults
- Authors:
- SIEBERT Darcy Clay, MUTRAN Elizabeth J., REITZES Donald C.
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work: A journal of the National Association of Social Workers (NASW), 44(6), November 1999, pp.522-533.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
This article proposes role identity theory as a means of integrating the diverse frameworks and findings that populate the social support literature, and it highlights the importance of the friendship role on life satisfaction for ageing adults in the USA. The results include differences in social support by gender, no significant influence on the structural support variables, and the significant effect of the role of friendship on respondents' life satisfaction.
Gerontological social work and the UN International Year of Older Persons
- Author:
- WITKIN Stanley L.
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work: A journal of the National Association of Social Workers (NASW), 44(6), November 1999, pp.513-519.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
To highlight the United Nations International Year of Older Persons and to increase awareness of social work issues related to older people, the author conducted an interview with four distinguished social workers involved in gerontological social work. The interviewees identified professional needs and various policy and practice issues for social work education and practice.
Ethnic integrative patterns of Singaporean very old persons
- Author:
- MEHTA Kalyani K.
- Journal article citation:
- Generations Review, 9(2), June 1999, pp.4-5.
- Publisher:
- British Society of Gerontology
This article looks at the ethnic dimensions of ageing, based on the author's qualitative research on 45 older Singaporeans. The study focuses on 3 major ethnic groups, Chinese, Malay and Indian. It identifies distinct ethnic patterns of the three groups where religion has a important function in preserving the self in old age.
Perceived social control as a mediator of the relationships among social support, psychological well-being and perceived health
- Authors:
- BISCONTI Toni L., BERGEMAN C.S.
- Journal article citation:
- Gerontologist, 39(1), February 1999, pp.94-103.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
The purpose of the present study was to delineate the process by which social support facilitates better health outcomes in older adulthood. In order to best understand the process behind the support-outcome relationship, an aspect of perceived control specific to the social domain was hypothesised to mediate the said relationship. This examination begins to illuminate the process by which social support may facilitate well-being in older adulthood by focusing on the internal structures that may play a crucial role in the utilisation of the social support.
It is expected by the year 2000: using lessons from the past to plan for the elder boom
- Author:
- CHAPIN Rosemary K.
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Gerontological Social Work, 32(2), 1999, pp.21-40.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
Analyses the accuracy and utility of forecasts made in the USA in the 1930s to help social workers anticipate the composition and needs of the current cohort of older adults. Examines the implications for social service professionals now attempting to make forecasts and develop practice and policy strategies for the 21st century when the baby boom cohort will become the elder boom.
Mutual aid groups with mentally ill older adults
- Author:
- KELLY Timothy B.
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work with Groups, 21(4), 1999, pp.63-80.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
There is a growing body of literature that describes the theory of and practice with mutual aid groups. This abstract attempts to particularise mutual aid theory to groups practice with mentally ill older adults. Mutual aid themes that are unique to older persons with a mental illness are explored.
The quality challenge: caring for people with dementia in residential institutions in Europe
- Author:
- TESTER Susan
- Publisher:
- Alzheimer Scotland
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 38p.,.bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
This report explores comparisons of European countries’ provision and quality of residential institutional care for people with dementia, a policy field which has received little comparative research attention. Key policy issues challenging the European Union (EU) countries with ageing populations include finding appropriate ways of paying for and meeting the needs of individuals and their families. Although rates of population ageing vary between countries, the steep increase in the prevalence of dementia with age, linked with increases in the oldest age groups, indicates increasing proportions of people with dementia in all EU countries who are likely, in the final stages of dementia, to need some form of institutional care. By 2020 there could be almost six million people with dementia aged over 65 in the EU. The study found that there is little specific government policy on caring for people with dementia. In spite of advances in recent years, institutional care for people with dementia remains an underdeveloped area of policy.
The quality challenge: caring for people with dementia in residential institutions in Europe; summary
- Author:
- ALZHEIMER SCOTLAND - ACTION ON DEMENTIA
- Publisher:
- Alzheimer Scotland
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 7p.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
This report explores comparisons of European countries’ provision and quality of residential institutional care for people with dementia, a policy field which has received little comparative research attention. Key policy issues challenging the European Union (EU) countries with ageing populations include finding appropriate ways of paying for and meeting the needs of individuals and their families. Although rates of population ageing vary between countries, the steep increase in the prevalence of dementia with age, linked with increases in the oldest age groups, indicates increasing proportions of people with dementia in all EU countries who are likely, in the final stages of dementia, to need some form of institutional care. By 2020 there could be almost six million people with dementia aged over 65 in the EU. The study found that there is little specific government policy on caring for people with dementia. In spite of advances in recent years, institutional care for people with dementia remains an underdeveloped area of policy.