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Critical gerontology for social workers /
"This original collection explores how critical gerontology can make sense of old age inequalities to inform and improve social work research, policy and practice and empower older people.With examples of practice-facing research, this book engages with key debates on age-related human rights a...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bristol, UK:
Policy Press,
2022.
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| Colección: | Research in social work (Policy Press)
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. Social work and critical gerontology: why the former needs the latter
- Part I. Critical gerontology as guiding principles for social work with older people
- 2. The lifecourse and old age
- 3. Human rights and older people
- 4. Agency and autonomy
- 5. Poverty and late-life homelessness
- 6. Sexuality and rights in later life
- 7. Ethnicity, race and migrancy
- Part II. Applying the critical gerontological lens to social work research, policy and practice
- 8. Assessment, care planning and decision making
- 9. Elder abuse
- 10. Dementia: a disability and a human rights concern
- 11. User involvement
- 12. Opportunities and future prospects for gerontological social work with a critical lens.