Research Catalog

Title

Therapeutic interventions with ethnic elders : health and social issues / Sara Alemán [and others], editors.

Publication

New York : Haworth Press, [2000], ©2000.

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Additional Authors

Alemán, Sara, 1944-

Description

x, 219 pages; 23 cm

Summary

"Therapeutic Interventions with Ethnic Elders serves as a training tool to help staff members work with ethnically diverse populations and provide these populations with relevant services. With this guide, you will learn to recognize culturally driven behaviors of ethnic elders and how to make appropriate interventions. Therapeutic Interventions with Ethnic Elders explains culturally different behaviors and provides you with effective suggestions for working with each population to provide optimum care to your elders."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

• Ethnic Groups
• Cross-Cultural Comparison
• Minority older people > Medical care > Cross-cultural studies
• Minority older people > Health and hygiene
• Minority older people > Medical care > Social aspects
• Health Services for the Aged

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction / Sara Aleman -- Ch. 1. Culture-Specific Theoretical and Conceptual Models of Aging / Sara Aleman and Tanya Fitzpatrick -- Ch. 2. Therapeutic Interventions with Elders of Japanese Ancestry / Anne O. Freed -- Ch. 3. Vietnamese-American Elders / Dung Ngo and Thanh V. Tran -- Ch. 4. Elderly Russian Jewish Immigrants / Tanya Fitzpatrick -- Ch. 5. African-American Elders / Elizabeth Gonzalez -- Ch. 6. Elderly Puerto Ricans / Raymond Bosse -- Ch. 7. Cuban-American Elders / Thanh V. Tran and Neala C. Melcer -- Ch. 8. Mexican-American Elders / Sara Aleman -- Ch. 9. The Yaqui (Yoeme) Elderly / Sara Aleman and Juan Paz -- Ch. 10. Navajo Elders / Sara Pena, Sara Aleman and Charlotte Beyal -- Ch. 11. Views and Visions: Moving Toward Culturally Competent Practice / Mary Damskey.

ISBN

0789002728 (hc : alk paper)

LCCN

99045998

OCLC

ocm42598342

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries