Policy and Program Planning for Older Adults: Realities and Visions

by Elaine Jurkowski MSW, PhD

Overview

This authoritative book serves as an invaluable resource for policy advocates, program planners, and service delivery agents. It provides an overview of the major pieces of legislation that currently impact the field of aging, and the lives of older adults; addresses the philosophical, historical, and demographic challenges that they face; and lays out tools that facilitate policy and program development to include the media, coalition building, the use of an evidence base, and health promotion strategies. Jurkowski also examines major service areas for older adults, and how each major mandated program addresses these programs and services--a must for the program planner or a service delivery setting.

The book is also extremely helpful to graduate students in social work, public health, and gerontology, building their understanding of policy development through a critical analysis and review of policy frameworks, and promotes development of skills in shaping programs and implementing policy. Unlike other books in this field, Policy and Program Planning for Older Adults focuses on triangulating skills, policies, and programs for the reader, and blends a social welfare and public health approach to the text's conceptual design.

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Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780826129475
Publisher:	Springer Publishing Company
Publication date:	08/25/2007
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	424
File size:	15 MB
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About the Author

Elaine Theresa Jurkowski, PhD, MSW, is a professor at Southern Illinois University Carbondale’s School of Social Work, where she teaches courses in health and aging policy, research, and program evaluation and social work practice. Dr. Jurkowski also holds joint appointments with the Department of Public Health and Recreation Professions and SIU’s School of Medicine’s Family Practice Residency Program.

Table of Contents

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List of Figures
List of Tables
Foreword
Preface
PART 1: Understanding Policy and Program Development

1. Background and Demographic Profile of Older Adults
2. Social, Political, Economic and Demographic Factors and Historical Landmarks Impacting Aging Policy
3. Philosophical Paradigms and Policy Frameworks

PART II: The Legislative Basis for Programs and Services Affecting Older Adults and/or People with Disabilities

4. The Social Security Act
5. Medicare
6. The Older Americans Act
7. The Americans with Disabilities Act
8. Mental Health: The Community Mental Health Act and the President's Freedom Initiative

PART III: Tools for Program and Policy Development

9. Health Behavior Models
10. Media and Advocacy Strategies for Change
11. Coalitions and Coalition Building for Advocacy and Policy Development
12. Needs Assessment Tools
13. From Tools to Vision

Using Tools and Strategies to Reach Your Vision
PART IV: Programs and Services: Realities and Visions

14. Long Term Care and Home and Community-Based Care
15. Mental Health and Substance Abuse Programs: Services and Issues
16. Health Programs Services And Issues
17. Grandparents Raising Grandchildren
18. Elder Abuse and Neglect
19. Legal Issues
20. Challenges for the Future: Realities and Visions

Appendices
1.SAMHSA's Action Plan for Older Adults
2.A Sample White Paper Devised Using the Process Implemented in this Book
Bibliography
Index

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