Developing Respite Services for the Elderly

Politics & Social Sciences

Montgomery, Rhonda J.V.

Social Sciences

Univ of Washington Pr

Explore new frontiers in Alzheimer's support systems! When Congress authorized the Alzheimer's Disease Demonstration Grants to States program in 1990, no one knew how effective the program would prove to be. A New Look at Community-Based Respite Programs provides you with results of the first major evaluation of ADDGS programs. Across the country, groups were able to develop specialized programs that reached traditionally underserved clients. A byproduct of many of the ADDGS programs was that they helped strengthen ties between communities and agencies, improving social services for both caregivers and people with Alzheimer's. A New Look at Community-Based Respite Programs examines: 
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<li> the profile of the average respite care user </li>
<li> different challenges faced by urban and rural clientele </li>
<li> how culture and ethnicity influence health care decisions </li>
<li> ways to involve communities in respite care </li>
<li> how understanding patterns of use makes for better program design and implementation </li>
</ul> A New Look at Community-Based Respite Programs provides you with detailed analyses of a variety of successful support service plans, including mobile day care, Latino-specific outreach, traveling dementia evaluation teams, and programs designed for people who live alone. You'll also read about the importance of complementing family caregivers instead of substituting for them. Throughout, helpful tables make the results of ADDGS programs clear. It is estimated that Alzheimer's will affect up to 14 million Americans by the year 2050. A New Look at Community-Based Respite Programs contains vital knowledge that you can act on now to help lay the foundations for a better future.

A New Look at Community-Based Respite Programs: Utilization, Satisfaction, and Development (Monograph Published Simultaneously As Home Health Care Services Quarterly, 3/4)

Routledge

Critical Issues in Aging Policy: Linking Research and Values (SAGE Focus Editions)

Giving a comprehensive overview of the discipline, this book is designed as a supplementary text for students of social gerontology and ageing policy. @3Highlighting policy implications, specialists consider issues such as: long term care; ways of measuring well-being; social relationships of the elderly; attitudes to retirement; health and crime.  @ ′the book does a good job in prompting deeper consideration of day-to-day issues about elderly people and points up many unexplored areas worthy of research.......This is a useful book, combining much of general interst for staff working with older people with clear and important messages for its target audience of researchers and policy theorists′ @ GPS 3:2

Borgatta, Edgar

Sage Publications, Inc.

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