Social work practice with older people : a positive person-centred approach /

Older people are the biggest service user group for social workers and an increasing portion of the population. In this refreshingly positive and practical textbook, Rory Lynch draws on years of practice and teaching experience to show how to achieve best social work practice with older adults. He t...

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Main Author: Lynch, Rory (Author)
Corporate Author: Sage Publications
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Los Angeles, California : SAGE, 2014.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary:Older people are the biggest service user group for social workers and an increasing portion of the population. In this refreshingly positive and practical textbook, Rory Lynch draws on years of practice and teaching experience to show how to achieve best social work practice with older adults. He takes a person-centred approach, which fosters respect by valuing the fact that elderly people have more lived experience than others.Exploring the key theoretical approaches and methods of intervention, this book helps social workers to identify, understand and facilitate their service-users' wishes for wellbeing and a fulfilling older age. Chapters are practice-driven, containing case studies drawn from a range of care settings, reflective questions and exercises.Mapping directly onto the key modules on the social work degree, this is ...
Physical Description:1 online resource (212 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages [185]-206) and index.
ISBN:9781446287286 (ebook) :