Handbook On Ethical Issues In Aging
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Handbook on Ethical Issues in Aging
Author: Tanya F. Johnson
language: en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date: 1999-06-30
Johnson addresses ethical issues in aging in a variety of contexts—the social cultural environment, physical health care, mental health care, social health care, legal care, and spiritual care. Because long-term aging has created a new generation of older adults, some new issues are emerging which need to be addressed from an ethical perspective—elder abuse, physician assisted suicide, dementia, intergenerational equity, guardianship, and living wills. A wide range of experts including physicians, philosophers, lawyers, social workers, nurses, sociologists, public health persons, theologians, historians, and ethicists share their insights on the ethical issues and dilemmas older adults in American society are facing or are likely to face over the life course. Of interest to undergraduate and graduate faculty and students in sociology, social work and social services practitioners, policymakers, and academic and professional libraries.
Handbook on Ethical Issues in Aging
Contributors from fields including sociology, anthropology, theology, medicine, philosophy, social work, and law examine how specific issues surrounding ethics and aging have been and currently are perceived and implemented, and pose new questions and solutions for ethical practice in aging in the future. They touch on areas such as ethical issues in a subculturally diverse society, spiritual care, terminal care, care of the judgement impaired, mental health care, family and non-family care, and long-term care. Also covered are research on aging, and ethical issues in a high-tech society. Johnson teaches sociology at the University of Hawaii-Hilo. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.
Handbook of LGBT Elders
This groundbreaking resource presents a wealth of findings and perspectives previously unseen in the LGBT literature. Its focus on psychological, sociopolitical and care delivery issues affecting LGBT elders reveals both the nuanced interplay between diverse sources of identity and multiple sources of stigma and discrimination. Specific chapters highlight challenges and resiliencies impacting subpopulations (e.g., racial groups, veterans, immigrants), examine employment and advocacy issues, discuss later-life concerns in context and offer guidelines for relevant, ethical practice. Contributors represent a wide range of fields from psychiatry and gerontology to public health and public policy, reflecting the scope and needs of this diverse and complex population. Among the topics in the Handbook: Family relationships of older LGBT adults. The intersection of identities: race, age, sexuality and care network. Bisexuality: an invisible community among LGBT elders. Implications of the Supreme Court ruling on same-sex marriage. No money, no work and you're old. Disabilities among LGBT elders: responses of medicine, public health, rehabilitation and social work. Handbook of LGBT Elders is an essential reference for mental health professionals, psychologists and social workers who work with the LGBT community and the elderly, as well as researchers interested in the LGBT community and aging.