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Who Will Care For Us? - Aging and Long-Term Care in Multicultural America (Paperback, New Ed)
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Who Will Care For Us? - Aging and Long-Term Care in Multicultural America (Paperback, New Ed)
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"An important contribution to the on-going national dialogue
concerning the need for planning for an increasingly aged
population and its impact on our social, political, medical,
economic institutions." --Wisconsin Bookwatch "Based on their
assessments of the levels of need for the long-term care among
African-American, Latino, and non-Latino white older persons, the
authors offer viable and attractive possible alternatives to
institutionalization in the long-term care of the elderly." --Nurse
Practitioner "A major contribution. Should be a part of every
course on social gerontology, long-term care, the demography of
aging, or formal/informal support networks of the elderly."
--Robert Joseph Taylor, Institute for Social Research, University
of Michigan America is getting older. By the year 2010, almost one
in five Americans will be 65 years of age or older.The combined
forces of low fertility and longer life spans among all racial and
ethnic groups have resulted in a disproportionate increase in the
number of individuals over 65 and an even faster increase in the
proportion of those individuals over eighty-five. As a result, the
nation faces an unprecedented challenge in addressing the economic,
medical, and long-term care needs of this older population at the
same time that it assures the welfare of the young. The growth of
the cost of the long-term care of the elderly is one of the major
forces behind recent increases in Medicaid expenditures, and any
reformed health care financing system will have to find ways of
providing high quality long-term care to older Americans at a
reasonable cost. In a racially and culturally diverse nation like
the United States, official policy regarding the care of the
elderly simply cannot be based on the assumption that the elderly
are a culturally and socially monolithic population. The cultural,
social, and economic situations of the elderly simply differ too
greatly and the family's role in their care is affected by
important cultural and social factors. In Who Will Care for Us?
Ronald J. and Jacqueline L. Angel argue that policies based on the
assumption of a homogenous population will fail to take advantage
of the opportunities that ethnic and cultural diversity offer for
the long-term care of the elderly. The authors examine the great
racial and ethnic diversity among the elderly in the contemporary
U.S. in terms of living arrangements, economic well-being, and
reliance on formal and family-based sources of support. Based on
their assessments of the levels of need for long-term care among
black, Hispanic, and non-Hispanic white older persons, they offer
viable and attractive possible alternatives to institutionalization
in the long-term care of the elderly.
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