The Forgotten Aged Ethnic Psychiatric And Societal Minorities | Mental Health

This helpful book explores mental health issues relating to elders who do not fit into the “usual” mold for research-white married or widowed urban or suburban persons with adult children. The Forgotten Aged focuses on those groups of elders often overlooked in gerontological literature-elder African-Americans rural aged gay and lesbian aged parents of developmentally disabled offspring older developmentally disabled persons themselves and “orphan” elders (those who do not have close family members who can serve as caretakers). The book offers “how to” advice on issues such as outreach intervention residential placement and transition assessment psychotherapy and team building to help readers learn effective ways of helping elderly persons from these various groups. With an optimistic tone it explores how more attention and resources combined with flexible modifications of programs and practices can yield favorable results for everyone involved. In The Forgotten Aged authors examine a variety of pertinent topics including: assessment of dementia and depression in African-Americans multidisciplinary team outreach to elderly living in rural areas therapeutic issues with gay and lesbian aged residential transitions for developmentally disabled elderly helping aging parents of developmentally disabled offspring intervention with “orphan” elderly with Alzheimer’s disease Social workers psychologists psychiatrists geriatricians nurses and counselors involved in providing support and care for elderly persons will find The Forgotten Aged a useful guide in their daily work and decisionmaking. This book can also serve as an enlightening supplementary text in courses that study aging and the elderly. |The Forgotten Aged Ethnic Psychiatric and Societal Minorities | Mental Health