Critical Issues In Social Work With Older People

This text brings together the latest research in critical gerontology with social work knowledge to offer a new model for professional work with older people. It covers a comprehensive set of issues for today's changing care environment, with discussion ranging from frailty and dependency to interprofessional working, integrated care and anti-oppressive practice. Each chapter provides practice illustrations suitable for individual reflection or group discussion and references to further reading. With its emphasis on both accessibility and challenge, this is a core source and course companion for students of social work at all levels.

MO RAY has worked as a social worker for many years. She has taught social work students in the School of Health and Social Welfare at the Open University for the past three years and currently has an ESRC research fellowship, based in the School of Social Relations, Keele University, UK.

JUDITH PHILLIPS has been appointed Professor of Social Work and Gerontology at Swansea University, UK, beginning in October 2004. Up until now, she has been Professor of Social Gerontology in the School of Social Relations, Keele University, UK.

MIRIAM BERNARD is Director of Postgraduate Studies and Professor of Social Gerontology in the School of Social Relations, Keele University, UK.