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Social Work with Older Adults
Aging Behind Prison Walls
Studies in Trauma and Resilience Tina Maschi and Keith Morgen
Tina Maschi and Keith Morgen offer a datadriven and compassionate analysis of the lives of incarcerated older people. The book draws on extensive quantitative and qualitative research as well as national datasets.
$50.00 / £42.00 paper 978-0-231-18259-1 $150.00 / £116.00 cloth 978-0-231-18258-4 2020 296 pages 35 illus.
Aging in Context Keith A. Anderson, Holly I. Dabelko-Schoeny, and Noelle L. Fields
As older adults and their families opt out of nursing homes, a range of home- and community-based services have risen up to provide care. This book examines existing and emerging models of these services. Emphasizing the multidisciplinary and interprofessional practice approaches used to deliver care, it is an essential learning tool.
$37.00 / £32.00 paper 978-0-231-17769-6 $120.00 / £110.00 cloth 978-0-231-17768-9 2018 272 pages 20 illus. Downsizing
Confronting Our Possessions in Later Life David J. Ekerdt
Drawing on in-depth interviews with recent movers in over a hundred diverse U.S. households, David Ekerdt analyzes the downsizing process and what it says about the meaning and management of possessions. He details how households approach and accomplish downsizing, exploring the decisionmaking process and the effectiveness of different strategies.
$26.00 / £22.00 paper 978-0-231-18981-1 $90.00 / £74.00 cloth 978-0-231-18980-4
2020 280 pages 2 illus.
Empowering the Elderly?
How ‘Help to Self-Help’ Health Interventions Shape Ageing and Eldercare in Denmark
Amy Clotworthy
Based on fifteen months of ethnographic fieldwork in a Danish municipality, Amy Clotworthy describes how both health professionals and elderly citizens negotiate the political discourses about health and aging that frame their relationship. By elucidating some of the conflicts, paradoxes, and negotiations that occur, she provides important insights into the contemporary organization of eldercare.
$50.00 paper 978-3-8376-5211-6 2020 266 pages
