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The development in Ireland of social work in Psychiatry of Old Age
- Author:
- NOLAN Damien
- Journal article citation:
- Irish Social Worker, 22(1), Autumn 2004, pp.19-22.
- Publisher:
- Irish Association of Social Workers
Provides an account of the key elements of the social work role in Psychiatry of Old Age, a specialist psychiatric service for older people concerned with mental disorders arising in people over the age of 65.
The role of the social worker in interdisciplinary geriatric teams
- Authors:
- MELLOR M. Joanna, LINDERMAN David
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Gerontological Social Work, 30(3/4), 1998, pp.3-7.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
Provides an in-depth background to the role of the social work interdisciplinary geriatric teams in the USA.
Home and hospital; hospice and palliative care: how the environment impacts the social work role
- Author:
- LAWSON Robin
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Social Work in End-of-Life and Palliative Care, 3(2), November 2007, pp.3-17.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia
Social workers play key roles within interdisciplinary hospice teams, which in the USA generally deliver care in the home, and in hospital-based oncology and palliative care teams. These different environments influence the role of the social worker, and the scope of care that is provided. This paper examines the similarities and differences between the two settings in the coordination of care and teamwork, and discusses collaboration between them in order to highlight opportunities for enhancing clinical social work skills and developing confidence in asserting social work expertise with colleagues from other disciplines. (Copies of this article are available from: Haworth Document Delivery Centre, Haworth Press Inc., 10 Alice Street, Binghamton, NY 13904-1580).
Setting priorities for gerontological social work research: a national Delphi study
- Authors:
- BURNETTE Denise, MORROW-HOWELL Nancy, CHEN Li-Mei
- Journal article citation:
- Gerontologist, 43(6), December 2003, pp.828-838.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
An increasingly important task for all disciplines involved in aging research is to identify and prioritize areas for investigation. This article reports the results of a national Delphi study on setting research priorities for gerontological social work. Delphi methodology, a structured process for eliciting and correlating informed opinions from a panel of experts on a specific topic, was used. A national expert panel of 46 gerontological social workers completed three successive Web-based questionnaires with controlled feedback to delimit a set of high-priority research topics. There were 49 independent research topics identified, 16 of which attained high or highest priority and high or moderate consensus ratings. The top-priority topic was developing and testing psychosocial interventions across specific populations and conditions. Three additional topics on intervention research achieved similar ratings, as did all four topics on services research. The research priorities identified by expert panelists in this study represent critical knowledge needs for the social work profession in aging, and they overlap and complement the current research agendas of the National Research Council and the National Institute on Aging. They are thus expected to help guide the development and prioritization of social work and interdisciplinary research to improve practice and policies affecting older adults and their families.
Directions in environmental gerontology: a multidisciplinary field
- Author:
- KENDIG Hal
- Journal article citation:
- Gerontologist, 43(5), October 2003, pp.611-615.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
This article considers developments and directions for environmental gerontology. The multidisciplinary field came of age during the 1960s with Powell Lawton's powerful environmental press paradigm and its applications to empirical research and building design. Recent theoretical developments in Europe and America have advanced and integrated concepts in psychology, geography, and related disciplines. Time dimensions and active use of space are essential for understanding aging individuals and microenvironments as well as changing populations and macroenvironments. Research on residential environments by health professions is informing community care that is enhancing the independence and well-being of older people. With its proven responsiveness to social and policy priorities, environmental gerontology is now providing strong conceptual and empirical bases for advancing healthy aging and age-friendly societies.
Ethics and elder mistreatment: uniting protocol with practice
- Author:
- JOHNSON Tanya Fusco
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Elder Abuse and Neglect, 7(2/3), 1995, pp.1-18.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
Focuses on the meaning of ethics in elder mistreatment. Looks specifically on distinguishing ethical issues from non-ethical issues and ethical dilemmas. Demystifies ethics for elder-serving practitioners and shows how ethics can be a part of the treatment decision-making process. Proposes a method for developing ethical practice at the multidisciplinary level. The multidisciplinary level starts with the multidisciplinary level starts with the client and professional and ends with the community-based multidisciplinary team. The latter include human services professionals who have the important task of transforming ethical protocols into practice.
Rehabilitation of the older patient: a handbook for the multidisciplinary team
- Editor:
- SQUIRES Amanda J.
- Publisher:
- Croom Helm
- Publication year:
- 1988
- Pagination:
- 278p., bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- London
Issues concerning rehabilitation of the elderly and considered from a multi-faceted team management approach.
Environmental gerontology at the beginning of the new millennium: reflections on its historical, empirical, and theoretical development
- Authors:
- WAHL Hans-Werner, WEISMAN Gerald D.
- Journal article citation:
- Gerontologist, 43(5), October 2003, pp.616-627.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
Over the past four decades the environmental context of aging has come to play an important role in gerontological theory, research, and practice. Environmental gerontology (EG)-focused on the description, explanation, and modification or optimization of the relation between elderly persons and their sociospatial surroundings-has emerged as a subfield in its own right. The aim of this article is to reflect on the historical, empirical, and theoretical development of recent EG. From a historical perspective, EG has clearly played an important and successful role within the gerontology enterprise in terms of explicit consideration of the sociophysical environment in theory and research. A literature analysis of empirical studies supports the view that research has continued on a substantial quantitative level during the 1990s. Findings of these research studies address the whole diversity of classic EG research questions, but mostly in the sense of replication and extension. In terms of theoretical discussion, our analysis leads to the insight that EG may be described as a field high in conceptual aspiration ("world views"), but low with regard to making research and application-productive use of its theoretical achievements.
Rehabilitation of the older person: a handbook for the interdisciplinary team
- Editors:
- SQUIRES Amanda, HASTINGS Margaret
- Publisher:
- Nelson Thornes
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 412p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Cheltenham
- Edition:
- 3rd.
Issues concerning rehabilitation of the elderly and considered from a multi-faceted team management approach. A shift in emphasis from people to person and from multidisciplinary to interdisciplinary reflects changes in the rehabilitation of older people. The book is divided into three sections dealing with the opportunity for, and theory and practice of, rehabilitation.
Developing a multisite project in geriatric and/or gerontological education with emphases in interdisciplinary practice and cultural competence
- Authors:
- BROWNE Colette, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Gerontologist, 42(5), October 2002, pp.698-704.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
This 2-year, multisite, curriculum-development project aimed to increase the pool of professionals trained in geriatric and/or gerontological social work. Methods included: providing advanced training in aging, cultural competence, and interdisciplinary practice to social work professionals and masters degree students; developing, implementing, and testing an innovative student curriculum based on standardised learning competencies identified by project participants; revising the university curriculum to support such competencies; and producing a practicum handbook.