Description |
xxi, 227 pages ; 23 cm |
Summary |
"This single source is designed to help social service professionals provide effective services to America's vastly diverse and rapidly growing elderly population. Diversity and Aging in the Social Environment explores the impact of race/ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, and geographic location on elders' strengths, challenges, needs, and resources to provide you with a more complete understanding of the issues elders face."--BOOK JACKET |
Notes |
"'Diversity and aging in the social environment' has been co-published simultaneously as Journal of human behavior in the social environment, Volume 9, Number 4 and Volume 10, Number 1 2004." |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Subject |
Older people -- United States.
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Minority older people -- United States.
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Multiculturalism -- United States.
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Author |
Cummings, Sherry M.
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Galambos, Colleen.
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LC no. |
2004020725 |
ISBN |
0789026759 hardcover : cover |
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0789026767 soft cover |
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