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Effective social work with older people
- Authors:
- KERR Brian, et al
- Publisher:
- Scotland. Scottish Executive. Social Research
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 4p.
Older people do not require social work support simply because of their age. They are not an homogenous group with a single set of needs. This study has highlighted the potential limitations of categorising older people as a separate service user group, as if different from other adults. Many people come to social workers’ attention for the first time following the onset of illness or frailty in old age. Others may have experienced difficulties during adult life which are exacerbated, or combine with adverse circumstances, as they grow older. As part of the 21st Century Social Work Review, the Scottish Executive asked the Social Work Research Centre at the University of Stirling to review the evidence base for effective social work with older people. This short piece of work (conducted during July and August 2005) involved a review of various key texts and recent research.
Research priorities for Gerontological social work: researcher and practitioner perspectives
- Authors:
- MORROW-HOWELL Nancy, BURNETTE Denise, CHEN Li-Mei
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work Research, 29(4), December 2005, pp.231-242.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
This article describes a Delphi study to identify research priorities of gerontological social work practitioners and to compare these priorities with those of social work academic researchers. A national expert panel of 52 gerontological social work practitioners from the United States completed questionnaires to delimit a set of high-priority research topics. Findings were compared with a similar Delphi study conducted with academic social work researchers. The researcher panel and the practitioner panel endorsed a need for intervention research. Practitioners also identified several unique priorities, including income security and long-term care policies, decision making, and planning for later life. The authors suggest four substantive areas (housing and transitions in living arrangements, family caregiving, health and mental health, and workforce) and four cross cutting themes (intervention research, social policy, service delivery, and capacity building) as a potential organizing framework for a research agenda for gerontological social work.
National minimum information standards for older people
- Author:
- SCOTLAND. Scottish Executive. Health Department
- Publisher:
- Scotland. Scottish Executive
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 40p.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
Social work's partnership in community-based stroke prevention for older adults: a collaborative model
- Author:
- MJELDE-MOSSEY Lee Ann
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work in Health Care, 42(2), 2005, pp.57-71.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
This article describes the role of social work in a collaborative community-based stroke screening to identify stroke risks in older adults and the lessons learned from a three-month risk reduction follow-up. (Copies of this article are available from: Haworth Document Delivery Centre, Haworth Press Inc., 10 Alice Street, Binghamton, NY 13904-1580).
Interest in working with the elderly: a cross-national study of graduating social work students
- Author:
- WEISS Idit
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Social Work Education, 41(3), 2005, pp.379-391.
- Publisher:
- Council on Social Work Education
This article presents a cross-national study of social work students' interest in working with the elderly, based on a sample of 679 graduating BSW students from 7 countries: Australia, Brazil, England, Germany, Hungary, Israel, and the United States. The findings among all the national cohorts show that the motivation to work with the elderly was lower than motivation to work with any other age group, and that it was equally low in most of the countries. The findings support the growing concern that the social work profession may not be able to meet its obligations to the aging society.
Social work with older people of tomorrow: restoring the person-in-situation
- Author:
- SILVERSTONE Barbara
- Journal article citation:
- Families in Society, 86(3), July 2005, pp.309-319.
- Publisher:
- The Alliance for Children and Families
The author proposes that, in practice with older adults, the social work profession revisit its traditional allegiance to the person-in-situation paradigm and redress an imbalance that has obscured older clients as persons in their own right. The case is made that older adults and their subjective reality must be restored as a focus of social work practice if the profession is to play a significant and much-needed role in community-based services to a growing future population of older persons living in their own homes and directing their lives but in need of support. Building on the practice wisdom of the past and current generic models of social work practice in North America, guidelines are presented as a starting place for building practice models applicable to older clients. The broader context of community health and social services programs is examined from the perspective of the obstacles to and potential opportunities for increasing professional social work services to older persons and their families.
The Madrid Plan of Action on Ageing 2002 and social work
- Author:
- GEORGE Janet
- Journal article citation:
- Asia Pacific Journal of Social Work and Development, 15(1), June 2005, pp.51-61.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
United Nations policy on ageing is articulated in the 2002 Madrid Plan of Action on Ageing directed to needs arising from the rapid demographic ageing of population globally. This article considers the direction, strengths and limitations of this global Plan of Action and the inferences for social work in the diverse Asia-Pacific region.
Service learning with rural older adults: effects on students' career perspectives in Gerontology
- Authors:
- VANDSBERGER Etty, WAKEFIELD Marilyn
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Intergenerational Relationships, 3(4), 2005, pp.83-97.
- Publisher:
- Routledge
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia
This qualitative study aimed to examine the effects of a service-learning project with rural older adults on social work students' choice of working professionally with older adults upon graduation. Service learning is a course-based community service experience designed to enhance students' understanding of course content while meeting an identified community need at the same time. The service learning intergenerational project consisted of ten hours of face-to-face interaction between a BSW student and an older adult living in rural South West Virginia and the city of Charleston. Twenty-one undergraduate social work students attending the Micro Practice course participated in the study. Data collection consisted of face-to-face interviews guided by a set of open-ended questions. Data analysis revealed that participation in the intergenerational project did not change a students' choice of major but it increased their desire to explore the field of aging. (Copies of this article are available from: Haworth Document Delivery Centre, Haworth Press Inc., 10 Alice Street, Binghamton, NY 13904-1580).
Recognizing but not acknowledging: on using research information in social work with elderly people suffering from dementia
- Author:
- EMILSSON Ulla Melin
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Social Work, 35(8), December 2005, pp.1393-1409.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
The gap between theory and practice in social work continues to be great, and research results seem to live a life of their own, far from the field they were intended to improve. This article considers research information as a useful contribution to the practice of social work with elderly demented people and to qualitative methods used in the area of social scientific research. Arising out of a project aimed at studying the usefulness of research information through an interactive exercise within focus groups, the author discusses how the results of research can be used to improve practice. When the researchers’ theoretical- oriented perspectives meet with the practitioners’ action-oriented perspectives, two different models enrich each other in the process of developing integrated knowledge.
Social work with older people: context, policy and practice
- Author:
- LYMBERY Mark
- Publisher:
- Sage
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 242p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
This book provides an overview of the development of social work with older people in the UK. The structure draws together the key themes involved in working with older people, and clearly demonstrates how to translate these into real-life practice. Features of the book include: an understanding of the policy context within which social work takes place, with particular attention to key topics such as inter-professional collaboration and ethics; a challenge to the restricted nature of social work practice, and adopts a positive view of its potential to benefit older people; a practice-led approach which includes practice scenarios. The book satisfies the curriculum benchmarks and National Occupational Standards that structure social work training and practice.