Legal Aspects of Elder Care

Legal Aspects of Elder Care
Author: Marshall Kapp
Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Learning
Total Pages: 374
Release: 2010-10-25
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0763756326

A wide variety of legal issues surround caring for older individuals. Health and human service practioners need to plan, provide and evaluate geriatric care, while also understanding public policies. Legal knowledge is an essential part of caring for the elderly. Students and professionals must be able to deliver appropriate care while also being aware of any legal, ethical and pilitical issues that may arise. Legal Aspects of Elder Care provides a clear overview of geriatric policies and laws, enabling the reader to use informed decision-making with older clients.

Aging, Place, and Health

Aging, Place, and Health
Author: William A. Satariano
Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Learning
Total Pages: 378
Release: 2017-03-03
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1284145026

Aging, Place, and Health: A Global Perspective examines the interplay of biological, social, and environmental factors affecting the health and well-being of aging individuals, their families, and communities. With a strong interdisciplinary focus, this book provides a clear, coherent structure to address the diversity of topics in this increasingly vital field. The second edition maintains the ecological approach using the same framework as in the first edition. The ecological model serves as a template for the organization of the book. The new edition provides a more global focus and introduces new topics such as the impact of technology. This edition also introduces a new co-editor as well as specific chapters prepared by leading experts in the field.

Aging

Aging
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Total Pages: 638
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Genre: Geriatrics
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Perspectives and Strategies for Promoting Safe Transportation Among Older Adults

Perspectives and Strategies for Promoting Safe Transportation Among Older Adults
Author: David W. Eby
Publisher: Elsevier
Total Pages: 302
Release: 2018-11-27
Genre: Transportation
ISBN: 0128123265

Promoting Safe Transportation among Older Adults: Perspectives and Strategies provides a concise, comprehensive, and up-to-date resource on safe mobility for an aging population. The book offers an interdisciplinary perspective for understanding and influencing the behavior of older adults with regard to their safe transportation. It is organized around the professions and disciplines that have a stake in the safe transportation of older adults and the role they play at each stage of their mobility needs. The book also addresses the various strategies that have been used to help keep older adults safe and mobile. Readers will find great insights on key issues related to aging and mobility, giving them an overarching framework for how to maintain safe mobility into older adulthood. The book enables readers to understand the perspectives of the critical groups of people involved in keeping older people safe and explores existing strategies by which an aging individual can maintain safe mobility. - Utilizes a multidisciplinary, evidence-based approach for examining the complexities of transportation for older adults - Offers an integrated, overarching narrative for understanding the key issues of safety and mobility in our aging society - Written by leading transportation and health scholars - Offers insights into the perspectives of all the stakeholders, such as hands-on transportation and health practitioners, students of varying levels, researchers and policymakers