Community Resources for Older Adults: Programs and Services in an Era of Change

An in-depth review of policy and programs for the "aging network"  

How have programs for older adults evolved? Who uses these resources? How are they delivered? And what challenges do service providers face in meeting the needs of the aging baby-boom generation? Community Resources for Older Adults: Programs and Services in an Era of Change, Third Edition, answers these and other critical questions by providing a theoretical framework for understanding the forces that shape older adults′ likelihood to seek assistance.

New to the Third Edition  

• Examines the new policies developed over the past five years as well as recent changes in the Older Americans Act
• Contains updated descriptions of the programs and services―both public and private―available to older adults
• Includes updated tables and figures depicting current census data
• Emphasizes diversity and cultural competence issues
• Provides prevalent best-practice examples of community programs across the nation

Also available with this book  

This instructor′s manual provides you with supplemental teaching materials that we hope you find helpful. We have included test questions, teaching resources, and chapter PowerPoint slides that can be used to guide lectures.

• Essay Questions. These questions have been drawn directly from each chapter. The questions require student to understand, compare and analyze text material.
• Teaching Resources. This next section contains annotated bibliographies, reports, and an annotated media listing (full-length and video-clips) to supplement classroom activities for each chapter.
• Lecture Outlines. Lecture outlines drawn from each chapter have been created using Microsoft PowerPoint. The slides are saved in both PowerPoint versions 2007 and 2003.

We welcome your comments and suggestions about the text or the instructor′s manual CD. Please e-mail either robbyn.wacker@unco.edu or kroberto@vt.edu.

Intended Audience  
This book is intended for upper undergraduate and graduate courses on community services, and programs for the elderly found in gerontology departments and departments of social work.

Robbyn R. Wacker, Ph.D., is the Provost and Senior Vice President and Professor of Gerontology at the University of Northern Colorado. Her research interests include international aging social policy and psychosocial predictors of community service use among older adults. She has published over 65 refereed presentations, scholarly articles, books, and conference proceedings and has earned numerous university and professional awards, including UNC’s Academic Leadership Excellence Award.

Karen A. Roberto, Ph.D., is the Director of the Center for Gerontology, Founding Director of the Institute of Society, Culture, and Environment, and Professor of Human Development at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. She also holds adjunct appointments in the Departments of Internal Medicine and Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine at the Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine. She has published over 150 scholarly articles and book chapters, is the editor/author of ten books, and has earned numerous university and professional awards, including the Gerontological Society of America Behavioral and Social Science Distinguished Mentorship in Gerontology Award