Editors: Marcia Spira, Teresa Kilbane

Older Women: Current and Future Challenges of Professionals with an Aging Population

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ISBN: 978-1-68108-350-6 (Print)
ISBN: 978-1-68108-349-0 (Online)
Year of Publication: 2016
DOI: 10.2174/97816810834901160101

Introduction

Older Women: Current and Future Challenges of Professionals With An Aging Population is about older women and the unique challenges they face now and in coming decades. Elderly women face problems that require response from multiple service providers in the social welfare, health care and legal sectors. Due to the complexity of the various issues and the multi-systemic responses required to address these problems among diverse groups, an interdisciplinary perspective in a multicultural context needs to be examined. This book is an attempt to explain the multidisciplinary facets of social work with elderly women. Readers are also introduced to the ethical issues and challenges caused by economic disparities and are also provided with guidelines on potential responses and intervention strategies to such difficulties. Readers are also introduced to the concept of cultural competence in terms of working with aged women. The integration of theory, research and practice in this book makes it a valuable resource for academicians and working professionals who are or will be in frequent contact with older adults.

Contributors

Editor(s):
Marcia Spira


Teresa Kilbane




Contributor(s):
Alysha Primmer
School of Social Work
Loyola University Chicago
Chicago
USA


Amanda Besinger
School of Social Work
Loyola University Chicago
Chicago
USA


Carlean Gilbert
School of Social Work
Loyola University Chicago
Chicago
USA


Christine George
Center for Urban Research and Learning
Loyola University Chicago
Chicago
USA


Constance Sheehan
School of Social Work
Loyola University Chicago
Chicago
USA


Darby Morhardt
Cognitive Neurology and Alzheimer's Disease Center
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Chicago
USA


Deborah J. Monahan
School of Social Work
Syracuse University, Sims Hall Syracuse
Syracuse
NY 13244
USA


Dianne Rucinski
Abt SRBI Inc., Vice-President
Public Health and Epidemiology
USA


Elizabeth Morgan
School of Social Work
Loyola University Chicago
Chicago
USA


Holly Nelson-Becker
School of Social Work
Loyola University Chicago
Chicago
USA


Jeanne E. Sokolec
School of Social Work
Loyola University Chicago
Chicago
USA


John Orwat
School of Social Work
Loyola University Chicago
Chicago
USA


Julie Hilvers
Policy Research Collaborative
Roosevelt University
Chicago
IL 60605
USA


Lauren B. McInroy
Factor~Inwentash
Faculty of Social Work, University of Toronto
Toronto
Canada


Marcia Spira
School of Social Work
Loyola University Chicago
Chicago
USA


Michael P. Dentato
School of Social Work
Loyola University Chicago
Chicago
USA


Qiana R. Cryer-Coupet
Jane Addams College of Social Work
University of Illinois at Chicago
Chicago
USA


Sacha M. Coupet
School of Law
Loyola University Chicago
Chicago
USA


Shelley L. Craig
Factor~Inwentash
Faculty of Social Work, University of Toronto
Toronto
Canada


Shirley R. Simon
School of Social Work
Loyola University Chicago
Chicago
USA


Susan Grossman
School of Social Work
Loyola University Chicago
Chicago
USA


Teresa Kilbane
School of Social Work
Loyola University Chicago
Chicago
USA




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