Social Work Practice with Ethnically and Racially Diverse Nursing Home Residents and Their Families

Erscheinungsjahr 2007
ISBN: 978-0-231-12532-1
Verlag: Columbia University Press

Buch, Englisch, 276 Seiten, Format (B × H): 162 mm x 238 mm, Gewicht: 494 g

The first of its kind, this volume is a critical companion for service providers who work with African American, American Indian, Chinese, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Mexican American, and Puerto Rican elders and their families in nursing homes and other care settings. These groups are likely to use nursing homes in larger numbers as cultural shifts, such as higher divorce rates and increased outside-of-home employment for females, transform traditional family dynamics. Contributors are experience social workers, and most belong to the specific ethnic or racial group that is the focus of their chapter and have also provided nursing home services to this group. They provide a wealth of demographic, historical, cultural, and practice information crucial to understanding and providing services to older adults and their families.

Many nursing home residents experience physical and/or cognitive debilitation and increased dependence as older adults, and cultural and situational differences create variations in how these changes are experienced and addressed. In this volume, contributors touch upon all of these areas, as well as ways in which prejudice and discrimination have shaped intergenerational and other relationships for members of specific ethnic and racial groups. Little has been written about the characteristics, needs, and experiences of racially and ethnically diverse nursing home residents and their families and requirements for culturally competent social work practice. Written by social workers for social workers and other service providers, this book fills a gap in a rapidly growing area of gerontological service and provides a truly comprehensive examination of cultural and practice phenomena.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kolb, Patricia

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Arbeit/Sozialpädagogik Soziale Arbeit/Sozialpädagogik: Minderheiten
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Arbeit/Sozialpädagogik Soziale Arbeit/Sozialpädagogik: Kranken-, Alten- und Behindertenhilfe

Inhaltsverzeichnis

AcknowledgmentsContributorsIntroduction, by Patricia J. Kolb1. African American Elders, by Molly Davis2. American Indian Elders, by Priscilla A. Day3. Chinese American Elders, by Rhoda Wong4. Italian American Elders, by Patricia J. Kolb and Rosemarie Hofstein5. Japanese American Elders, by Tazuko Shibusawa6. Korean American Elders, by Su-Jeong Park and Suk-Young Kang7. Mexican American Elders, by Yvette Solis-Longoria8. Puerto Rican Elders, by Maria CuadradoConclusion: Toward Culturally Competent Social Work Practice, by Patricia J. KolbIndex

Über Autor(innen)

Patricia Kolb is an associate professor at Lehman College, of the City University of New York. She holds a M.S.S.A. in Social Work and and M.A. and Ph.D. in sociology from the New School. Since 1973, she has worked in the field of geriatric social services, with responsibilites that have included direct practice, supervision, teaching, administration, and program planning.