| Description |
1 online resource (234 p.) |
| Series |
Routledge Library Editions: Health, Disease and Society Ser. ; v.14 |
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Routledge library editions. Health, disease & society ; v. 14.
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| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Original Title Page -- Original Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Warning -- Foreword -- 1 Characteristics of the Elderly Mentally Infirm -- 2 An Outline of Mental Illness in the Elderly -- 3 The Symptoms of Brain Failure -- 4 Other Mental Illness -- 5 Normal and Abnormal Personality -- 6 The National Health Service and the Elderly Mentally Infirm -- 7 Demographic and Social Aspects of Old Age -- 8 Social Services for the Elderly -- 9 Communicating with Elderly People -- 10 Social Work Intervention -- 11 Needs of Relatives |
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12 A Better Future? -- Appendix 1: Legislation -- Appendix 2: Brief Legal Notes -- Appendix 3: Financial Concessions -- Appendix 4: Guidelines for Social Workers -- (a) Symptoms of Mild and Severe Intrinsic Brain Failure and of Extrinsic Brain Failure -- (b) Assessment of Elderly Client at Risk in the Community -- (c) Guidelines for Communicating with Elderly People -- (d) Problems Faced by Carers and Possible Solutions -- (e) Helping to Keep Old People in the Community -- Appendix 5: Key Addresses -- Appendix 6: Voluntary Social Services -- Appendix 7: Mrs Sarah Merton, Aged 87, A Client at Risk |
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Appendix 8: Brief Case Studies for Discussion -- Appendix 9: Additional Tables -- Glossary -- References -- Index |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Subject |
Mentally ill older people -- Institutional care
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Mentally ill older people -- Long-term care
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Isaacs, Bernard
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| ISBN |
9781000578249 |
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1000578240 |
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