Community Care for an Aging Society: Issues, Policies, and Services (Springer Series on Lifestyles and Issues in Aging) - Hardcover

Cox PhD, Carole B.

9780826128041: Community Care for an Aging Society: Issues, Policies, and Services (Springer Series on Lifestyles and Issues in Aging)

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0826128041 ISBN 13: 9780826128041

Publisher: Springer Publishing Company, 2004

Most older persons desire to remain living in the community, but those requiring care are often at risk of not having their needs met. Families may find themselves unable to care for their older relatives, while formal services are often unavailable or inaccessible. Policies and services are beginning to focus on the community rather than institutions as the primary axis for care.

This book examines the many factors contributing to needs for care among older persons as well as the ways in which impairments are defined and responded to by both the individual and society. Focusing on practice and policy issues, Dr. Cox describes many of the early stage community care innovations that hold the promise of making contributions to the well-being and independence of the older population.

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"Well-researched, well-organized, and well-timed, COMMUNITY CARE FOR AN AGING SOCIETY provides an accessible and informed overview of community-based long-term care services, systems and programmatic and policy challenges. This book is important reading for students, faculty and professionals -- in social work, gerontology and the health professions -- engaged in the planning and delivery of services to older Americans."

- Eric R. Kingson, PhD Professor of Social Work and Public Administration School of Social Work College of Human Services and Health Professions Syracuse University

"Community Care for an Aging Society is the most comprehensive analysis available of America's "non-system" of community supports for disabled elderly persons. Carole Cox critically analyzes existing community care programs and policies, and examines the potential of innovative new approaches for meeting the care needs of tomorrow's elderly. In so doing, this book tackles head-on the challenge of providing community-based care that supports the physical, social, and psychological well-being of older adults, while not bankrupting individuals, families, or society, a challenge made even more acute by the imminent aging of the Baby Boom generation."

- Andrew Scharlach Kleiner Professor of Aging

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