Aging

by Weisstub, David N.

• ISBN13: 9781402001819
• ISBN10: 1402001819
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-12-01
• Publisher: Kluwer Academic Pub

Summary

Caring for Our Elders is the second of three volumes on Aging conceived for the International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine. Leading scholars from a range of disciplines address some of the major issues in elder care facing modern nations: familial duties of care, the future of social welfare systems, housing, dementia, abuse and neglect.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Acknowledgments	xiii
Contributors	xv
THE FAMILY
Across the generations: Family care dynamics into the new millennium	1	(18)
G. Clare Wenger
Family caregiving: A problem of justice	19	(10)
Nancy S. Jecker
Family care for frail elders and norms of caregiver well-being at the turn of the twenty-first century	29	(20)
Anna L. Howe
Hilary Schofield
SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
Care for elderly people in Sweden: Do cutbacks reflect changing principles or simply adjustment to economic pressure?	49	(16)
Mats Thorslund
Ake Bergmark
Marti G. Parker
Financing long-term care in the United States: who should pay for Mom and Dad?	65	(18)
Richard L. Kaplan
The role of the government and the family in taking care of the frail elderly: A comparison of the United States and Japan	83	(24)
Fusako Seki
CARE
Appropriate housing for the elderly of the United States: An integral component of their health care	107	(16)
Lawrence A. Frolik
Nursing work, housekeeping issues, and the moral geography of home care	123	(16)
Joan Liaschenko
The dilemma of prolonged engagement: Building opportunities for reciprocity among ethnic female clients and workers in elder care services	139	(26)
Shari Brotman
Community mental health services for older adults in the United States	165	(12)
Cynthia Zubritsky
Dementia care ethics	177	(14)
Stephen G. Post
Decision-making in social and medical services for patients with dementia in Japan	191	(12)
Masahiko Saito
NEGLECT
The abuse and neglect of the elderly	203	(16)
Robert M. Gordon
Deborah Brill
Aging, homelessness, and the law	219	(18)
Carl I. Cohen
Jay Sokolovsky
Maureen Crane
Index	237