Most people fear the idea of living in a long-term care facility. Yet, there is potential for joy and meaning in these settings. This book highlights expanded roles and services that mental health professionals can provide in long-term care for older adults, offering the potential to improve the quality of care for residents.
Their Nature, Complexity, and Role in Health and Illness
Presents the latest theoretical, methodological, and empirical perspectives in the field of middle-age and older couple relationships. The chapters cover a broad range of topics, including the impact of health concerns, loneliness, chronic disease management, couple negotiation of everyday tasks, and coping across the lifespan. Implications for ......
Ethics, Aging and Society...is the first major work in ten years to critically address issues and methodologies in aging and ethics...This well-organized volume begins theoretically and offers new ways of thinking about ethics that can handle the complexities and realities of aging in particular social contexts.--Choice This new research-based ......
Interventions to Support Functional Skills after Acquired Brain Injury
Highly practical and comprehensive, this book provides a multimodal framework for helping patients with acquired brain injuries to identify and achieve meaningful functional goals in the home and community. In a convenient large-size format, the volume features rich case examples and interdisciplinary tools and strategies. Post-acute cognitive, ......
Rethinking Dementia invites us to reconsider deeply held assumptions about personhood and the value of personal autonomy. Chapman argues that dementia is better understood as the changes and perturbations experienced not only by someone with a 'dementia' diagnosis but also by those who love and care for them. The book is a valuable resource for ......
Black Older Adults in the Era of Black Lives Matter
The 41st volume of Annual Review of Gerontology and Geriatrics, "Black Older Adults in the Era of Black Lives Matter," reflects an important moment in the continuing development and maturation of research and scholarship on the lives of older Black Americans. The volume includes literature reviews and empirical analyses on a broad range of topics, ......
The seventh edition of this classic multidisciplinary text for students of gerontology continues to offer practical, user-friendly, and comprehensive information about the physical changes and common pathologies associated with the aging process. Fully updated with current information regarding diagnosis, risk factors, prevention recommendations, ......
Results from the National Youth Survey Family Study
This book describes the complex relationships of different types of adolescent exposure to violence with diverse adult outcomes, including social statuses, mental health, substance use, violent victimization, and violence perpetration.
Demonstrates how to address practical and ethical challenges when assessing older adults with neurocognitive disorders, like dementia. The contributors are expert clinicians who draw on real life experiences conducting clinical capacity assessments in civil matters, illustrating best practices.
