Social Work for Older and Sick People

Contents: Preface. 1. Social work practice: susceptible and flexible populations. 2. Social work for homeless people. 3. Need of long-term care for older persons. 4. Family caregivers to the elder people. 5. Providing housing to older and sick people. 6. Social work practice for people with learning disabilities. 7. Policies to alleviate homelessness and for sick people. Bibliography. Index.

"This edition of this groundbreaking how-to guide has been extensively updated to reflect the field\'s growing understanding of the importance of resiliency and protective factors the positive poles of the human experience and the importance of their role in forming balanced assessments and responsive interventions. The problems of homelessness from a public policy perspective, this study challenges the belief that homelessness is entirely due to the Reagan administration\'s cutbacks.

The book reviews competing socioeconomic paradigms that can explain why meaningful and effective programs are difficult to enact. The volume treats housing, community development patterns, economic segregation, problems of the urban underclass, and proposed solutions." (jacket)