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  Title Year Author Related Subject Description
1.   Empowering Hispanic Families A Critical Issue for the 90's 1991 Marta Sotomayor Hispanic American Sociology Hispanic Older Adults  Explores new issues that affect a larger, more complex and diverse population.
2.   Drug-Related Problems in Geriatric Nursing Home Patients 1991 James Cooper  Drug Therapy, Geriatric Pharmacology, Pharmacology, Medical, Nursing Home Practical suggestions to improve pharmaceutical care to the elderly.
3.   Therapeutic Humor with the Elderly 1992 F. McGuire, R. Boyd, and A. James  and James, A Geriatric Nursing, Psychology, Humor, Rehabilitation, Therapeutic use This monograph explores the use of humor as a tool in providing activity programs to older adults. 
4.   Never Too Young to Know: Death in Children's Lives 2000 Phyllis Silverman Children and death, Death, Grief, Bereavement, Psychology, Psychotherapy - Child & Adolescent, Children, Coping with death & bereavement, Death & dying This book is not only valuable for Psychology and counseling courses on death and dying and the family, but also for Social Work courses dealing with children both at the upper undergraduate/graduate level. This book brings together diverse fields of study and offers a multifaceted theoretical approach to how children experience death. Using stories of children's own experiences supported by data from a large research study, Silverman explains the wide range of effects of loss upon children, the challenges they face as they grieve, and ways of supporting them as they change and grow in the bereavement process.
5.   Fifty to Forever 1994 Hugh Downs Aging, Aging - Retirement, Long-Term Care, Adult children From health care to the selection of living arrangements, Fifty to Forever gives older adults the background they need to make their choices with confidence. No issue is too complex--or too simple--for Downs' helpful advice.
6.   Growing Older & Wiser: Coping with Expectations, Challenges and Change in the Later Years 1993 Nathan Billing, M.D. Aging, Mental health, Older people, Psychology This guide to understanding the mental health of older people reveals how to cope with the normal aging process and see its potentially positive aspects while dealing with its problems. Billig treats the complex questions of when aging begins and when its impact is felt (generally in the mid-70s) in a selection of case histories from his practice among the ever more numerous elderly population of the United States. 
7.   An Orientation Manual for Long Term Care Facilities 1993 Joan Iannone Health Care Delivery, In-service training, Long-Term Patient Care, Long-term care facilities, Reference Defines the role of the staff development coordinator in long-term care and details an orientation program for personnel in long-term care facilities. Appendices provide list of resources, orientation skills lists, OBRA regulations, etc.
8.   Ethics and Values in Long Term Health Care 1994 Pat Villani, PhD, MPA Ethics, Health & Fitness, Health Care Issues, Health Services For Older Adults,  Long-Term Care, Moral and ethical aspects Documented in this volume are a variety of ethics and values concerns spanning approaches within the emerging health care reform environment to dilemmas regarding end of life choices.
9.   Volunteerism in Geriatric Settings 1995 Vera Jackson Gerontology, Health/Fitness, and Services For The Aged 12 geriatric professionals helps activity directors plan and manage volunteer programs, broadening their understanding of what motivates people to volunteer.
10.   Old Friends 1993 Tracy Kidder Aged, Case studies, Gerontology, Nursing homes, Psychology, Sociology The residents of this home still struggle with their circumstances, their pasts, and the challenge of living a moral life. The book's focus is on two men who find, in each other and in their friendship, ways to reconcile their personal histories and confront death.* 
11.   Women and Healthy Aging: Living Productively in Spite of it all 1993 J. Garner, and A. Young Diet / Health / Fitness, Diseases, Health & Fitness, Health Care Delivery, Health Services For Women,  Health and hygiene, Health/Fitness, Mental health, Older women, Psychology Of The Aged Fourteen contributions discuss some of the ailments and limitations older women face, what to expect from medical care, and strategies for continuing to live actively. 
12.   The Forgotten Aged: Ethnic, Psychiatric and Societal Minorities 1993 T.L. Brink, PhD Gerontology, Aging - General, Older people, Social work with older people,  Minority older people Comprises seven contributions on issues important to those groups of elders often overlooked in Gerontological literature: elders who are African-American, rural, gay or lesbian, parents of developmentally disabled offspring, without close family members, or developmentally disabled themselves. 
13.   A Good Death: Challenges Choices and Care Options 1998 Charles Meyer Christianity - Pastoral Counseling, Health Care Delivery, Religion - Pastoral Care / Counseling, Terminal care Quick read on death and dying shows the dying process in an entirely different light than what I had previously envisioned in the physical aspect. 
14.   Living with Grief: Who we are; How we Grieve 1998 K. Doka and J. Davidson Death, Grief, Bereavement, Loss (Psychology), Coping with death & bereavement For those who cope professionally with terminal illness, death, and the process of grief. 
15.   The Graying of America: An Encyclopedia of Aging, Health, Mind and Behavior 1996 Donald and Barry Kauslerer Aging, Diet / Health / Fitness, Gerontology, Health/Fitness, Older people, Social Gerontology The objective of this encyclopedia is to "relate in non-technical language the results of . . . research about the health, mental functioning, and social functioning" of the elderly. The 300 articles define terms relevant to the aging process and describe and interpret research results in the areas of the biology, psychology, and sociology of aging. The research information presented here is scientific in nature, but the vocabulary and the examples used to illustrate the results of the studies make the information accessible to the general reader.
16.   Testing Older Adults, A Reference Guide for Geropsychological Assessments 1989 T. Hunt and K. Lindley Geriatric Psychiatry & Psychological testing This book adds to the series of companion volumes that cover a life-span approach to the presentation of psychological tests and test problems.
17.   Toward a Restraint-Free Environment 1993 J. Braun and S. Lipson   Behavior therapy for older people, Health & Fitness, Health Care Issues, Long-Term Care, Long-Term Patient Care, Nursing Home Care, Nursing home patients, Restraint of patients, & Terminal Care Text for all members of the health care team on implementing a program to safely reduce or eliminate use of patient restraints in long-term or acute care facilities. 
18.   Managing Aging & Human Service Agencies 1992 E. Morgan and J. HiltnerJ Health services administration, Politics - Current Events, Public Policy - Social Services & Welfare, Services For The Aged, Social Work Administration, and Sociology This book was written in response to a need for a textbook that examines the management process for human service professionals in the field of aging.
19.   Research in Health Care Settings: Applied Social Research Methods Series Vol. 14 1988 K. Grady and B. Wallston B Clinical health psychology, Medical / Nursing, Research, Sociology, & Social Science "This is the first volume to focus on a substantive area of research rather than on a particular method. It describes the whole process of research from setting up and conducting the project to interpreting and publishing results." Kathleen E. Grady and Barbara Strudler Wallston simplify potentially complex and boring material and can be used as a quick reference. Combining an easily readable style, breezy approach and technical insights makes Research in Health Care Settings an excellent contribution to the libraries of all social scientists." 
20.   Successful Case Management in Long Term Care 1993 Joan Quinn Continuum of care, Health Care Delivery, Long-Term Patient Care, Long-term care, Nursing - Gerontology,  People with disabilities, and Social Casework Interdisciplinary text for nurses and social workers on coordinating all aspects of long-term care, in hospital, at home, and in long-term care facilities. Case management involves social, financial, and family-related issues
21.   Meeting the Health Care Needs of the homeless elderly 1991 Terry Buss, Ph.D. Elderly Health Stivers' 1976 work examines the roots of the unfortunate stereotype in both Ireland and the United States that the Irish are brawlers and barflies. 
22.   Older Adults with Developmental Disabilities 1990 R. Coelho and N. Dillon Developmentally disabled older people, Recreation, Leisure, Health and hygiene, Services for
developmentally disabled older people, Mental Retardation, Recreation. Health Care Delivery		 This book provides an overview of the elderly population who have developmental disabilities. It attempts to assess their needs and their lives as they age. In many ways, this is a pioneer population, one of the first generations of persons with developmental disabilities who have survived into later life. As this population of persons with developmental disabilities ages, new challenges will emerge for specialists and educators both in the areas of gerontology and developmental disabilities. Programs designed for mid-life persons with developmental disabilities will have to be modified to serve older adults. Senior services, too, will have to incorporate the needs of this unique population into their own plans and programs. 
23.   Handbook of the Psychology of Aging 1996 J. Birren and K. Schaie Aging, Gerontology, Nursing - Gerontology, Psychology This handbook is an essential reference for researchers in adult development and gerontology and suitable as an advanced textbook for courses on the psychology of aging.
24.   Handbook of the Biology of Aging 1995 E. Schneider and J. Rowe, J Gerontology, Life Sciences - Biology - General, Psychology &, Sociology This book provides an overview of critical areas of biomedical research on aging, detailing experiments with animals and findings in genetic analyses, molecular and cellular biology, neurobiology, physiology, endocrinology, and nutrition. The 40 contributors synthesize their work at some of the leading US research facilities, describing experiments such as the genetics of aging in Drosophila and the mechanisms of altered gene expression. The final essays display more familiar topics in gerontology, discussing exercise physiology, immune response, nutrition, skeletal integrity, and menopause.
25.   Institutionalization and Alternative Futures 1971 Jon Hendricks Gerontology, Social Gerontology, Social Science, Social conditions, and Sociology No one wants to put an aging relative in a "home." But very few people have an understanding of the issues involved and options available for an older person who needs outside care. This important book offers a variety of new insights into ways of maximizing choice, independence, and well-being, and minimizing the emotional stunting often associated with institutionalization. Both imaginative institutional programs and such alternatives as community maintenance are examined.