Caring For Our Elders : Multicultural Experiences With Nursing Home Placement
Editorial Reviews
Review
" Caring for Our Elders offers an important new perspective in planning for culturally responsive services for the growing population of ethnically diverse elders." -- Leah Pigatti, Families in Society
"A stimulating timely publication in a rapidly developing field...policy makers, academics, and service providers will find this a rich resource" -- Hannes B. Stahelin, Gerontology
"In this well-researched and indexed volume, author Patricia Kolb aptly illustrates the press of societal forces as a catalyst for change in the way members of microcultural groups within the United States provide extended care for frail older adults." -- Aging & Society
"This study adds significantly to our knowledge of the processes... I can therefore strongly recommend this book to all those interested in ageing, institutional care for older people and family care for older people. In all these areas I felt that I had learned something new." -- Mark Lymbery, British Journal of Social Work
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"An extraordinarily important contribution to our understanding of the different pathways older people and their families take as the older person moves from independent living in the community to entry into a long-term care facility. She identifies, with a combination of intellectual rigor and professional empathy, how the cultural background of families affect such important aspects of family life as caregiving; the declining health of the elder in the family; how health care decisions are made; and the adaptation of both older people and their families to placement and life after placement. This is a book well worth a careful read by academics, administrators, and service providers." -- Rose Dobrof, DSW, Brookdale Professor of Gerontology. Hunter College of the City University of New York
"A valuable supplement to courses in aging, multigenerational families, and the intersections of race, ethnicity, age, and social class. The author is to be commended for her vision in creating perhaps the first and most compelling book on culturally diverse nursing home residents." -- Nancy R. Hooyman,, Dean Emeritus and Professor, University of Washington, School of Social Work
Caring For Our Elders : Multicultural Experiences With Nursing Home Placement
Caring For Our Elders: Multicultural Experiences With Nursing Home Placement,Patricia Kolb,Columbia University Press,0231114591,Caregivers,General,Health Care Delivery,Medical / Nursing,Minority older people,Nursing home care,Older people,Social Work,Sociology,United States,Care of the elderly,Ethnic studies,Social Science / Gerontology,USA
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