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Social care of the elderly : the effects of ethnicity, class, and culture /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cantor, Marjorie H.
Other Authors: Brennan, Mark (Mark G.)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Springer, [2000]
Subjects:
Older people > Services for > New York (State) > New York.
Social work with older people > New York (State) > New York.
Minorities > Services for > New York (State) > New York.
Social work with minorities > New York (State) > New York.
Table of Contents:
  • Social care among the elderly: an introduction
  • Social care in the United States
  • Preferences on the part of the elderly for assistance
  • Introduction to the case studies
  • Growing older and Jewish in New York City in the 1990s
  • The older Latinos of New York City in the 1990s
  • Growing older and African American in New York City in the 1990s
  • The elderly and the informal social care system of the twenty-first century
  • The future of formal community-based social care.