Social Work and Aging: A Review of the Literature and How it is Changing

1980 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 251-267 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elin J. Cormican
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Social Service ◽  
Role Model ◽  
Elderly Person ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Counseling Services ◽  
Review Of The Literature ◽  
Protective Services ◽  
Aged Person ◽  
The Social

Three related trends emerge from a review of the traditional social work journals, Social Casework, Social Work, and The Social Service Review, during the five year period from 1970 through 1974. Social workers begin the period with an essentially negative view of aging. They portray aging as a process of losses, regard the aged person as a precipitator of family crises, and focus on protective services. During the middle of the period, the writings show a more positive view of aging, posit the elderly person as a functional role model for families, and stress supportive counseling services. At the end of the period, however, the diversity of the aging process, the elderly person's relationship to his family, and the delivery of services are recognized.

The Role of the Social Worker in Terminal Care with Institutionalized Elderly People

1987 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 19-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
Venes Sakadakis ◽  
Rita Bonar ◽  
Michael J. Maclean
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Elderly Person ◽  
Supportive Therapy ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Institutional Setting ◽  
Terminal Phase ◽  
Elderly Persons ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Work Practitioners

There is considerable evidence that many dying elderly persons in institutions experience feelings of hopelessness and isolation in their terminal phase. This is often when we, as social work practitioners, experience difficulty in developing active interventions, such as supportive therapy, advocacy, and treatment planning. Ethical dilemmas may also arise around issues of appropriateness of treatment or the quality of life for the elderly person, requiring social work intervention. Through case illustrations of some work with dying elderly individuals in an institutional setting, the role of the social work practitioner will be discussed in respect to these interventions.

Socio-cultural direction in the social service of elderly citizens

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Svetlana Nikolaevna Ispulova
Keyword(s):  
Social Service ◽  
Day Care ◽  
Leisure Activities ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Cultural Work ◽  
Technical Equipment ◽  
Care Department ◽  
Medical Institutions ◽  
The Social

The article presents the experience of socio-cultural work with elderly citizens in the conditions of a complex social service center, as well as the results of an empirical study conducted by the author, aimed at identifying the satisfaction rate of elderly citizens with leisure activities in the day care department. As a result, it was determined that the quality of services provided during the stay in the day care department is rated as high by the clients, which allows asserting the professionalism of the staff working with them; the clients tend to prefer those types of services that are aimed at maintaining health and well-being; the clients are satisfied with the material and technical equipment of the day care department; the clients want to see new types of services in the day care department and are ready to pay for them additionally. These services include going on excursions outside the city, lectures by specialists from medical institutions on various topics related to the health of the elderly and disabled, visiting the cinema, visiting the theater.

Head Start and Social Work

1997 ◽  
Vol 78 (2) ◽  
pp. 172-184 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arthur J. Frankel
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Head Start ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Social Service ◽  
Financial Resources ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Service Component ◽  
Work Involvement ◽  
The Social ◽  
Head Start Programs

The author states that the social work profession is not sufficiently involved with Head Start. Data from a representative sample of Head Start programs shows the minimal role professional social workers play with Head Start even when ample financial resources to hire BSWs or MSWs are available. Evidence suggests, however, that Head Start is open to increased professional social work involvement. The author presents reasons social work professionals are underrepresented in Head Start and recommendations for increasing professional involvement and influence. The author also discusses the history and current status of Head Start, including a thorough description of Head Start's social service component.

scholarly journals Cobertura médica de una persona adulta mayor: razones humanitarias por sobre cuestiones administrativas

2020 ◽  
pp. 269-277
Author(s):  
María Guadalupe Neder
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Justice System ◽  
Elderly Person ◽  
The Social ◽  
High Age ◽  
Retirement Status

A través del presente comentario se intentará hacer una breve síntesis del razonamiento de la justicia federal mendocina en una ejemplar decisión que recayó sobre una persona adulta mayor. El tribunal interviniente teniendo en cuenta la elevada edad del amparista, su condición de jubilado y su estado de incertidumbre como consecuencia de la actitud desplegada por la obra social, lo considero merecedor de una tutela preventiva y resolvió mantener su afiliación a la obra social pese haber adquirido su condición de jubilado.   Through this comment, an attempt will be made to summarize the reasoning of the federal justice system in Mendoza in an exemplary decision that fell on an elderly person. The intervening court, taking into account the high age of the amparo, his retirement status and his state of uncertainty as a consequence of the attitude displayed by the social work, considered him deserving of preventive protection and decided to maintain his affiliation to the social work despite having acquired his retirement status.

Elder Abuse

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eloise Rathbone-McCuan
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Informal Care ◽  
Social Problem ◽  
Elder Abuse ◽  
Elderly Person ◽  
Incidence Rates ◽  
National System ◽  
The Social ◽  
Victim Protection

Elder abuse is now recognized internationally as a social problem among the aging population. Intentional abuse, neglect, and exploitation among caregivers to frail and isolated elderly create serious risks across diverse formal and informal care settings. This field has expanded continuously since the early 1970s. Accurate prevalence and incidence rates have not been determined. There is a national system of elder victim protection operating within each state. The social work profession is legally mandated to report situations where an elderly person is suspected to be at risk of abuse. Social workers are involved in all aspects of elder abuse prevention and intervention services.

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