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Title: Gerontology for Health Professionals : A Practice Guide
Publisher: NASW Press
Publication Date: 1997
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0871012839
ISBN 13: 9780871012838
Binding: Soft cover
Edition: 2nd.
Condition: Very Good
Weight: 1.091 pounds

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Here is the new edition of the best-selling guide for working with elderly people, filled with expert guidance and proven interventions. Learn to better assess physical, mental, psychological, and social function, and to plan interventions for common problems caused by dementia, grief and loss, and more. New to the second edition are three chapters that address the increasing challenges of elder abuse, AIDS and elderly people, and advance directives.

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Perspectives on Productive Aging: Social Work With the New Aged - ISBN 0871013770
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NASW Press

NASW Press, a division of National Association of Social Workers (NASW), is a leading scholarly press in the social sciences. We serve faculty, practitioners, agencies, libraries, clinicians, and researchers throughout the United States and abroad.

Known for attracting expert authors, the NASW Press delivers professional information to hundreds of thousands of readers through its scholarly journals, books, and reference works.

Some of the areas we publish in include:

-Social work in the field of aging
-Models of social work
-Social work with children and adolescents
-Ethics in social work
-Community organization
-Professional development

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'This is a marvelously useful book that provides guidance for all professionals on geriatric health teams... a must for social workers...' --Rose Dobrof, Executive Director, Brookdale Center on Aging, Hunter College

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