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This comprehensive graduate textbook focuses on the full spectrum
of long-term care settings ranging from family and community based
care through supportive housing options to a variety of
institutional long-term care alternatives. Integrating theory and
practice, the book features the perspectives of diverse fields
regarding current long-term care options and new directions for the
future. Prominent scholars from history, environmental design,
family caregiving, gerontology, social service delivery, clinical
care, health service delivery, public policy, finance, law, and
ethics explore such themes as relationships among independence,
dependence, and interdependence; ethical considerations in the
provision of long-term care; decision-making in long-term care;
fluidity and transitions in long-term care; the lived experience of
long-term care; and a micro-macro perspective ranging from the
individual to societal institutions.
This groundbreaking resource presents a wealth of findings and
perspectives previously unseen in the LGBT literature. Its focus on
psychological, sociopolitical and care delivery issues affecting
LGBT elders reveals both the nuanced interplay between diverse
sources of identity and multiple sources of stigma and
discrimination. Specific chapters highlight challenges and
resiliencies impacting subpopulations (e.g., racial groups,
veterans, immigrants), examine employment and advocacy issues,
discuss later-life concerns in context and offer guidelines for
relevant, ethical practice. Contributors represent a wide range of
fields from psychiatry and gerontology to public health and public
policy, reflecting the scope and needs of this diverse and complex
population. Among the topics in the Handbook: Family relationships
of older LGBT adults. The intersection of identities: race, age,
sexuality and care network. Bisexuality: an invisible community
among LGBT elders. Implications of the Supreme Court ruling on
same-sex marriage. No money, no work and you're old. Disabilities
among LGBT elders: responses of medicine, public health,
rehabilitation and social work. Handbook of LGBT Elders is an
essential reference for mental health professionals, psychologists
and social workers who work with the LGBT community and the
elderly, as well as researchers interested in the LGBT community
and aging.
This groundbreaking resource presents a wealth of findings and
perspectives previously unseen in the LGBT literature. Its focus on
psychological, sociopolitical and care delivery issues affecting
LGBT elders reveals both the nuanced interplay between diverse
sources of identity and multiple sources of stigma and
discrimination. Specific chapters highlight challenges and
resiliencies impacting subpopulations (e.g., racial groups,
veterans, immigrants), examine employment and advocacy issues,
discuss later-life concerns in context and offer guidelines for
relevant, ethical practice. Contributors represent a wide range of
fields from psychiatry and gerontology to public health and public
policy, reflecting the scope and needs of this diverse and complex
population. Among the topics in the Handbook: Family relationships
of older LGBT adults. The intersection of identities: race, age,
sexuality and care network. Bisexuality: an invisible community
among LGBT elders. Implications of the Supreme Court ruling on
same-sex marriage. No money, no work and you're old. Disabilities
among LGBT elders: responses of medicine, public health,
rehabilitation and social work. Handbook of LGBT Elders is an
essential reference for mental health professionals, psychologists
and social workers who work with the LGBT community and the
elderly, as well as researchers interested in the LGBT community
and aging.
This book offers the first full examination of the legal role of
public guardianship in 25 years, comparing current conditions to
those when the last study was published in 1981. Public
Guardianship: In the Best Interests of Incapacitated People? is
written to advance public understanding of what happens to disabled
and elderly adults when no family member or friend is available to
be a caregiver or guardian should it become necessary. It is the
first major study on this critically important issue since 1981.
Conducted by experts in gerontology, social work, public policy,
and public health, it finds that, although progress has been made,
guardianship programs around the country still are hampered by
limited staff and resources. Public Guardianship analyzes the full
range of state statutes governing guardianship, including guardian
eligibility, investigation, due process, rights, powers, costs, and
monitoring. The authors report their case studies of public
guardianship programs, marshaling and comparing field data from
their surveys of stakeholders in ten states. The book concludes
with a variety of recommendations for improving guardianship
programs, including the authors' Model Public Guardian Act.
Includes case studies on public guardianship programs in ten
different states Offers bibliographic listings of works cited in
the text Presents tables and charts showing important data
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