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Caring for Our Elders
Almost forty percent of American adults age sixty-five and over spend some time in a nursing home, and residents in nursing homes will be increasingly diverse racially and ethnically because of changing demographics. The decision to place a family member in a nursing home is often extremely difficult, especially when the family belongs to a group with a strong tradition of filial responsibility. Despite these realities, little has been written about the stresses families of diverse cultural backgrounds experience in making this challenging decision.
This book describes the experiences of seventy-five African American and Afro-Caribbean, white Jewish, and Latina/o residents and their relatives and friends who have been their caregivers. Integrating original qualitative research with quantitative data and theoretical perspectives and findings from other studies, Patricia Kolb not only presents new perspectives on how caregiving varies across racial and ethnic backgrounds but also dispels numerous stereotypes about nursing home placement among diverse groups.
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Social Work Practice with Ethnically and Racially Diverse Nursing Home Residents and Their Families
The first of its kind, this volume is a critical companion for service providers who work with African American, American Indian, Chinese, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Mexican American, and Puerto Rican elders and their families in nursing homes and other care settings. These groups are likely to use nursing homes in larger numbers as cultural shifts, such as higher divorce rates and increased outside-of-home employment for females, transform traditional family dynamics. Contributors are experience social workers, and most belong to the specific ethnic or racial group that is the focus of their chapter and have also provided nursing home services to this group. They provide a wealth of demographic, historical, cultural, and practice information crucial to understanding and providing services to older adults and their families.
Many nursing home residents experience physical and/or cognitive debilitation and increased dependence as older adults, and cultural and situational differences create variations in how these changes are experienced and addressed. In this volume, contributors touch upon all of these areas, as well as ways in which prejudice and discrimination have shaped intergenerational and other relationships for members of specific ethnic and racial groups. Little has been written about the characteristics, needs, and experiences of racially and ethnically diverse nursing home residents and their families and requirements for culturally competent social work practice. Written by social workers for social workers and other service providers, this book fills a gap in a rapidly growing area of gerontological service and provides a truly comprehensive examination of cultural and practice phenomena.
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A Snapshot of Aging and Philanthropy Today
This article provides a snapshot of aging and philanthropy today that includes information about current activities of the Grantmakers in Aging organization and the current state of foundation funding in aging. Priorities of the largest funder of aging initiatives, the Robert Wood Johnson
Foundation, are highlighted, and The John A. Hartford Foundation's innovative training, research, and service system initiatives in medicine, nursing, and social work are described. The chapter ends with a brief description of resources for identifying potential sources of foundation funding.
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Identifying and Addressing Family Members’ Psychosocial, Spiritual, and Existential Issues Related to Having a Loved One Living and Dying in a Nursing Home
For many families, it is extremely difficult to place a relative in a nursing home, and family members and residents experience many challenges. Stereotypes abound regarding families heartlessly sending older relatives to nursing homes and abandoning them, but reality repeatedly discredits these stereotypes. Nursing home placement is frequently a decision of last resort that is made only when family and community resources are inadequate for an older relative to remain at home safely (Kolb 2003). Other responsibilities and demands on time, money, and energy of informal caregivers, as well as gaps in formal care systems in the community, often combine
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