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Critical Issues for Future Social Work Practice with Aging Persons
Sheila Neysmith (Ed.)
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Description for Critical Issues for Future Social Work Practice with Aging Persons
Hardback. Demonstrates that many of the consequences that social workers must face are made more difficult by the dominance of a market discourse that excludes a social justice framework. This book includes subjects such as constructing community support, aging and caregiving in culturally diverse families, and changing demographics of widowhood. Editor(s): Neysmith, Sheila M. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1KB; JKSG; JKSN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 160. Weight in Grams: 544.
A massive restructuring of health care in virtually all the wealthy nations of the West has offloaded services and costs from governmental responsibility into home care services and onto families-a burden borne primarily by women. This restructuring has profoundly altered not only the practice of social work but also its representation in language and theory. As this volume demonstrates, many of the consequences social workers must face are made more difficult by the dominance of a market discourse that excludes a social justice framework. The authors aim not to prescribe specific guidelines for practice but "to challenge current arrangements and ... Read more
A massive restructuring of health care in virtually all the wealthy nations of the West has offloaded services and costs from governmental responsibility into home care services and onto families-a burden borne primarily by women. This restructuring has profoundly altered not only the practice of social work but also its representation in language and theory. As this volume demonstrates, many of the consequences social workers must face are made more difficult by the dominance of a market discourse that excludes a social justice framework. The authors aim not to prescribe specific guidelines for practice but "to challenge current arrangements and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231113380
SKU
V9780231113380
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99-1
About Sheila Neysmith (Ed.)
Sheila Neysmith is professor in the faculty of social work at the University of Toronto. She is co-editor, with C. Baines and P. Evans, of Women's Caring: Feminist Perspectives on Social Welfare and the editor of Restructuring Caring Labour: Discourse, State Practice, and Everyday Life.
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