| Description |
300 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Series |
Sage focus edition ; 61 |
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Sage focus editions ; 61
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| Contents |
Part I : Introduction -- Minority aging and knowledge in the social professions : overview of a problem / John N. Colen and R.L. McNeely -- Part II : The Demography of minority aging -- Demography of the Asian-Pacific elderly : selected problems and implications / Paul K.H. Kim -- Selected demographic and social aspects of older Blacks : an analysis with policy implications / Wilbur H. Watson -- The elderly of Cuban origin : characteristics and problems / Magaly Queralt -- The demography of Mexican-American aging / Ramon Valle -- Native-American elders : current issues and social policy implications / E. Daniel Edwards -- Part III : Exemplars of aging in a cultural context : three minority groups -- Asian-Americans and their aged / Doman Lum -- The Black aging experience / Nellie Tate -- The Mexican-American : aging in a changing culture / Rosina M. Becerra -- Part IV : Selected social problems and the minority aged : (A) Housing -- Enhancing housing opportunities for the Black elderly / Adam W. Herbert -- (B) Crime -- Race, sex, and victimizaton of the elderly / R.L. McNeely -- Fear of crime and victimization : Black residents in a high-risk urban environment / John Lewis McAdoo -- (C) Health and mental health -- Physical health and the minority aged / Barbara Jones Morrison -- Mental health, service delivery in institutions, and the minority aged / Jospehine A. Allen -- (D) Employment and income maintenance -- Employment problems and prospects of older Blacks and Puerto Ricans / Gaylene Perrault and Gilbert L. Raiford -- Income maintenance programs and the minority elderly / Robert B. Hill -- (E) Local decision-making and political involvement -- Minority decision-making, accessibility, and resource utilization in the provision of services : urban-rural differences / Elena M. Bastida -- Political involvement among older members of national minority groups : problems and prospects / Fernando Torres-Gil -- Part V : Guidelines for service delivery -- Service utilization and the minority elderly : a review / Shirley Wesley-King -- Facilitating service delivery to the minority aged / John N. Colen -- Social treatment with the minority elderly / Maria Zuniga-Martinez -- Group services for the minority aged / Hisashi Hirayama -- Evaluating programs serving the minority aged / Robert O. Washington |
| Analysis |
United States Ethnic minorities Old persons Social problems |
| Notes |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographies |
| Subject |
Minorities.
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Minority older people -- Services for -- United States.
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Minority older people -- United States -- Economic conditions.
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Minority older people -- United States -- Social conditions.
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Minority older people -- United States.
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Older people -- United States.
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Older people.
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Aged.
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Minority Groups.
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| Author |
Colen, John N.
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McNeely, R. L.
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| LC no. |
83003404 |
| ISBN |
0803920083 |
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0803920091 (paperback) |
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