Summary
Contents
Subject index
Older people are the biggest service user group for social workers and an increasing portion of the population. In this refreshingly positive and practical textbook, Rory Lynch draws on years of practice and teaching experience to show how to achieve best social work practice with older adults. He takes a person-centred approach, which fosters respect by valuing the fact that elderly people have more lived experience than others.Exploring the key theoretical approaches and methods of intervention, this book helps social workers to identify, understand and facilitate their service-users’ wishes for wellbeing and a fulfilling older age. Chapters are practice-driven, containing case studies drawn from a range of care settings, reflective questions and exercises.Mapping directly onto the key modules on the social work degree, this is essential reading for all student social workers, especially as they prepare to go on their practice placement. It is also valuable reading for qualified social workers.
Historical Context, Law and Policy
Historical Context, Law and Policy
Learning Outcomes
This chapter looks at:
- How older people are perceived within a structural context.
- Retirement, poverty and the future of an ageing population.
- The legislative and policy context of ageing and how this may be socially constructed.
- The role of the family and carers in supporting older people’s needs.
- What does the future hold for older people, particularly within the context of major financial upheavals within the UK?
Introduction
Old age and ageing is something of a moveable feast. While individual older people may seek to answer specific questions of ‘who am I?’, policy makers and legislative developers may take the more pragmatic response of ‘what are you?’ This divergence of the existential aspect (Thompson, 1992) and how older people are engaged ...
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