The Aging Network: Programs and Services

A must-have reference for practitioners and a comprehensive overview for students of gerontology, social work, and public health, text offers up-to-date information on the changing health plans available to the elderly today.

The 6th edition of The Aging Network not only highlights the primary components of specific programs and services to emphasize the most recent and important changes, but explores the varying demographics of the elderly population and how these factors will affect what plans people will choose. It provides an overview of the Older Americans Act, and breaks out the various aspects of older living-from health and mental health to employment, legal assistance, and housing-that the new plans will transform.

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Disc. specific programs & services, incl. transportation, adult day care, mental hlth.

A must-have reference for practitioners and a comprehensive overview for students of gerontology, social work, and public health, this fully updated edition of a highly successful text offers up-to-date information on the changing health plans available to the elderly today.

With the modifications in Medicare plans and the addition of new prescription drug policies, choosing which plans are right for your patients, helping decipher the language and implications that the changes have on the older population, and understanding what these amendments to the old Medicare plan will mean for future Medicare users can be daunting.

To help figure it out is Donald Gelfand's newest addition to the gerontological literature. The 6th edition of The Aging Network not only highlights the primary components of specific programs and services to emphasize the most recent and important changes, but explores the varying demographics of the elderly population and how these factors will affect what plans people will choose. It provides an overview of the Older Americans Act, and breaks out the various aspects of older living-from health and mental health to employment, legal assistance, and housing-that the new plans will transform.

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A reference to services for the elderly, listing federal, state, and local programs that can locate transportation, legal assistance, employment, income maintenance, and volunteer programs in every region of the country. Discusses the present status of older Americans, and examines public and private income maintenance programs. Provides details on major programs in aging, and discusses service delivery systems for the elderly, including senior centers, in-home services, adult day care, and nursing homes. This fifth edition places special emphasis on new programs, especially those mandated by the Older Americans Act. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Donald E. Gelfand, PhD, is a professor of sociology at Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, and Coordinator of the Wayne State University End-of-Life Interdisciplinary Project (WSU-EOLIP). He has conducted and published research on attitudes of Mexican Americans toward end-of-life care. He has also conducted extensive research on issues of aging among variety of other ethnic groups including African Americans, Latinos, Native Americans, and individuals from a variety of European backgrounds. The second edition of his book Aging and Ethnicity was published by Springer Publishing Company in 2003.