Aging Caring for Our Elders [Paperback]

Positive conceptions of healthy aging are rightly displacing negative ageist perceptions of older members of our society. Nevertheless, at some stage, most elderly citizens will require some form of assistance from other members of society. When the body or mind begins to fail, a legitimate need for intervention and care will arise. This second volume on Aging discusses this theme.

Caring for Our Elders is the second of three volumes on Aging conceived for the International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine. Leading scholars from a range of disciplines address some of the major issues in elder care facing modern nations: familial duties of care, the future of social welfare systems, housing, dementia, abuse and neglect.Preface. Acknowledgments. Contributors. The Family. Across the generations: Family care dynamics into the new millennium; G.C. Wenger. Family caregiving: A problem of justice; N.S. Jecker. Family care for frail elders and norms of caregiver well-being at the turn of the twenty-first century; A.L. Howe, H. Schofield. Social Responsibility. Care for elderly people in Sweden: Do cutbacks reflect changing principles or simply adjustment to economic pressure? M. Thorslund, ?. Bergmark, M.G. Parker. Financing long-term care in the United States: Who should pay for Mom and Dad? R.L. Kaplan. The role of the government and the family in taking care of the frail elderly: A comparison of the United States and Japan; F. Seki. Care. Appropriate housing for the elderly of the United States: An integral component of their health care; L.A. Frolik. Nursing work, housekeeping issues, and the moral geography of home care; J. Liaschenko. The dilemma of prolonged engagement: Building opportunities for reciprocity among ethnic female clients and workers in elder care services; S. Brotman. Community mental health services for l£B