Description
Book SynopsisLatino Elders and the Twenty-First Century: Issues and Challenges for Culturally Competent Research and Practice will help social workers, researchers, and organizations identify and analyze ways of meeting the demands of the increasing number of elderly Latinos. Working from conceptual frameworks, case studies, and examples, this book provides you with a demographic picture of Latino elders and investigates the needs of ethnic-specific groups. Latino Elders and the Twenty-First Century will help you develop and create culturally competent intervention methods that take the culture, beliefs, and situations of Latino elders into consideration. Addressing the future challenges to individuals involved in the field of gerontology, this book offers you current studies on the assessment of present services for Latino elders, how they can be improved, and why these individuals may be reluctant to seek financial or medical help. Latino Elders and the Twenty-First Century will assist
Table of ContentsContents
Introduction
- Culturally Competent Practice with Elderly Latinos
- Staff Development: An Ethical Imperative
- Puerto Rican Elders and Merchant Establishments: Natural Caregiving Systems or Simply Businesses?
- The Yaqui Elderly of Old Pascua
- Dominican Immigrant Elders: Social Service Needs, Utilization Patterns, and Challenges
- Middle-Aged Puerto Rican Women as Primary Caregivers to the Elderly: A Qualitative Analysis of Everyday Dynamics
- Sociocultural Status, Psychosocial Factors, and Cognitive Functional Limitation in Elderly Mexican Americans: Findings from the San Antonio Longitudinal Study of Aging
- Challenges to Treating the Elderly Latino Substance Abuser: A Not-So-Hidden Research Agenda
- Social Policy and the Politics of Hispanic Aging
- Ethnic Differences in the Expression of Caregiver Burden: Results of a Qualitative Study
- Patterns of Long-Term Care: A Comparison of Puerto Rican, African-American, and Non-Latino White Elders
- Index
- Reference Notes Included
