Social Work With the Aged and Their Families (Modern Applications of Social Work)

This new edition responds to the challenge of devising holistic yet specialized services for the aged constituencies whose numbers have grown in practice. The author proposes to achieve a "successful aging" philosophy by selecting direct practice interventions, including preventive and psychoeducational strategies as well as family-centered models. She retains the assessment and treatment components of the model in the earlier edition and adds some recent concepts that perhaps are most pertinent to social work with the aged and their families as the new century dawns.