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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 copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Tabla de contenidos provista por Syndetics

• Preface to the Fifth Edition(p. vii)
• Introduction(p. ix)
• Part I. The American Elderly and Programs
• 1 The Older American(p. 3)
• 2 Legislative Bases for Programs and Services(p. 11)
• Part II. Income Maintenance Programs
• 3 Age, Employment, and Income Maintenance(p. 29)
• 4 Illness, Medical Care, and Income Maintenance(p. 45)
• Part III. Programs for the Aged
• 5 Information and Assistance(p. 61)
• 6 Health and Mental Health(p. 69)
• 7 Transportation(p. 82)
• 8 Crime and Legal Assistance Programs(p. 91)
• 9 Employment, Volunteer, and Educational Programs(p. 111)
• 10 Nutrition Programs(p. 123)
• Part IV. Services for the Aged
• 11 Multipurpose Senior Centers(p. 139)
• 12 Housing(p. 154)
• 13 In-Home Services(p. 179)
• 14 Adult Day Care(p. 192)
• 15 Long-Term Care Residences(p. 204)
• 16 Challenges for the Aging Network(p. 224)
• Appendix National Nonprofit Resources Groups in Aging(p. 233)
• Index(p. 239)

Notas de autor provistas por Syndetics

Donald E. Gelfand, Ph.D., is a Professor in the Department of Sociology at Wayne State University and Chair of the department (1994-1999). In 1990, he was a Visiting Research Fellow at Australian National University, and he was a Senior Fulbright Fellow in Darmstadt, Germany, in 1982. He has also served as Associate Director of the National Policy Center on Older Women and as a Senior Research Associate at the National Council on the Aging.