Gerontological Social Work in Small Towns and Rural Communities

by Kaye; Lenard W

• ISBN13: 9780789016928
• ISBN10: 0789016923
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-09-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Learn the skills you need to work with geriatric populations in rural areas! Gerontological Social Work in Rural Towns and Communities provides a range of intervention and community skills aimed precisely at the needs of rural elders. This book fills a gap in the literature by focusing on the specific practice concerns for social workers assisting older adults in rural areas, including the aging experience, social worker skills, professional functions, working with special populations, and health and long-term care concerns. This valuable resource will benefit social workers, gerontologists, allied health professionals in rural areas, health and human services administrators and managers. Gerontological Social Work in Rural Towns and Communities explores the challenges social workers need to overcome when working with the elder community in rural areas. This book's significance to social workers will only increase as more adults choose to live and grow old away from

Table of Contents

About the Contributors	xix
Acknowledgments	xxiii
Preface	xxi
PART I
SECTION I. INTRODUCTORY CONCEPTS OF RURALITY AND AGING
Rurality, Aging and Social Work: Setting the Context	3	(16)
Sandra S. Butler
Lenard W. Kaye
The Demographics of Aging in Rural Perspective	19	(18)
Lucinda L. Roff
David L. Klemmack
SECTION II. PRACTICE DIMENSIONS OF SOCIAL WORK WITH RURAL ELDERS
Rural Aging: Social Work Practice Models and Intervention Dynamics	37	(22)
Cynthia D. Bisman
Advocacy Techniques with Older Adults in Rural Environments	59	(16)
Sandra S. Butler
Nancy M. Webster
Rural Program Planning and Development for Older Adults	75	(16)
Hong Li
C. Jean Blaser
A Rural Perspective on Marketing Services to Older Adults	91	(30)
Kim K. R. McKeage
Lenard W. Kaye
SECTION III. SPECIAL POPULATIONS
Indigenous Elders in Rural America	121	(16)
Amanda Barusch
Christine TenBarge
Rural African American Older Adults and the Black Helping Tradition	137	(14)
Mikal N. Rasheed
Janice Matthews Rasheed
Rural Latinos Elders	151	(24)
Steven Lozano Applewhite
Cruz Torres
Rural Disabled Elders	175	(18)
Elizabeth DePoy
Stephen French Gilson
PART II
SECTION IV. SPECIAL ISSUES AND PROGRAMS
Older Adult Health Promotion in Rural Settings	193	(20)
Stephanie J. FallCreek
Older Rural Workers and Retirement Preparation	213	(16)
Lorraine T. Dorfman
Rural Older Adults at Home	229	(18)
Whitney Cassity-Caywood
Ruth Huber
Specialized Housing and Rural Elders	247	(18)
Sandra S. Butler
Donald W. Sharland
Ethical Practice Issues in Rural Perspective	265	(22)
Tara C. Healy
SECTION V. LOOKING AHEAD: TRAINING AND POLICY RECOMMENDATIONS
Future Training and Education Recommendations for Rural Gerontological Social Workers	287	(14)
Nancy P. Kropf
Rural Mental Health: A Discussion of Service Capacity Building for Rural Elders	301	(12)
Eloise Rathbone-McCuan
Share Bane
The Aging Network and the Future of Long-Term Care	313	(10)
Josefina Carbonell
Larry Polivka
Appendix. Sources for More Information on Social Work with Rural Older Adults	323	(22)
Elizabeth Johns
Jane Harris-Bartley
Index	345