Community care for an aging population -- Determining needs for care -- Policy and care -- Community programs and services -- Housing needs and responses -- The role of the family in providing care -- Ethnicity and care -- New responses in community care -- The challenges of caring for an aging society
Summary
"This book examines the many factors contributing to needs for care among older persons as well as the ways in which impairments are defined and responded to by both the individual and society. Focusing on practice and policy issues, Dr. Cox describes many of the early stage community care innovations that hold the promise of making contributions to the well-being and independence of the older population."--BOOK JACKET
