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  • Grand Challenges for Social Work and Society

    Edited by Rowena Fong, James Lubben, Richard P. Barth ...
    The Grand Challenges for Social Work Initiative (GCSWI), which is spearheaded by the American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare (AASWSW), represents a major endeavor for the entire field of social work. GCSWI calls for bold innovation and collective action powered by proven and evolving scientific interventions to address critical social issues facing society. The purpose of GCSWI was ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Age through Ethnic Lenses

    Caring for the Elderly in a Multicultural Society

    by Laura Katz Olson, Celia Berdes, Bruce L. Campbell, Jacalyn A. Claes, Chrysie M. Constantakos, Peggy Dilworth-Anderson, Barbara C. Du Bois, Mary Patrice Erdmans, Hani Fakhouri0, Patricia J. Fanning1, Zev Harel2, Colleen L. Johnson3, Kwang Chung Kim4, Shin Kim5, Harry H. L. Kitano6, Michel S. Laguerre7, James E. Lubben8, Wayne R. Moore9, Dung Ngo0, Mona Polacca1, Carmen Delia Sanchez2, Jean Pearson Scott3, Tazuko Shibusawa4, E Percil Stanford5, Tricia H. Sung6, Thanh V. Tran7, Ishan Canty Williams8, Sharon Wallace Williams9, Morrison G. Wong0, Carol H. Yavno1, Lee J. Zook2 ...
    An ever-more diverse America is getting older, but American policies are not growing with the needs of our ethnic and aging society. Age Through Ethnic Lenses explores the distinct characteristics and unique social, political, economic, and cultural situations of America's aged, while highlighting the common needs and objectives among all aging Americans. With portraits of Asians, Latinos, ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

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  • Aging in Canada

    by Neena L. Chappell, Marcus J. Hollander ...
    Canada, like other countries, is aging. The media has reported on a "grey tsunami," a demographic change reflecting longer life expectancy and the retirement of the so-called baby boomer generation. The numbers and percentages of older adults within our population continue to increase. In 2010, 15.3 percent of Canada's population was over 65; in 2030, it will be 24.1 percent. Many commentators ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Handbook of Compliance

    Edited by Benjamin van Rooij, D. Daniel Sokol ...
    Series series Cambridge Law Handbooks
    Compliance has become key to our contemporary markets, societies, and modes of governance across a variety of public and private domains. While this has stimulated a rich body of empirical and practical expertise on compliance, thus far, there has been no comprehensive understanding of what compliance is or how it influences various fields and sectors. The academic knowledge of compliance has ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Child Welfare

    Connecting Research, Policy, and Practice

    Edited by Kathleen Kufeldt, Brad McKenzie ...
    Children who receive child welfare services are a vulnerable group, and their numbers are growing. All who care about them need to be fully informed about current outcomes, indicators of success and failure, and best practices. This second edition of Child Welfare: Connecting Research, Policy, and Practice has a special focus on Canadian child welfare and contains entirely new material on these ... Read more

    $45.39 USD

  • Where to from Here?

    Keeping Medicare Sustainable

    by Stephen Duckett ...
    Series Book 161 - Queen's Policy Studies Series
    Universal healthcare, perhaps the most distinguishing feature of Canada's public policy, is under fire, criticized for its heavy expense and questionable sustainability. In Where to From Here?: Keeping Medicare Sustainable, Stephen Duckett defends Canadian Medicare, addressing key concerns and refuting criticism, while also acknowledging flaws in the system and room for improvement.Duckett argues ... Read more

    $29.49 USD

  • College Student Retention

    Formula for Student Success

    by Alexander W. Astin, Joseph B. Berger, Erin W. Bibo, Kurt R. Burkum, Alberto F. Cabrera, Gloria Crisp, Ann Gansemer-Topf, Steven M. LaNasa, Susan Lyons, Liliana Mina, Lonnie Morrison0, Thomas G. Mortenson1, Leticia Oseguera2, Geraldo Blanco Ramírez3, Daniel W. Salter4, John H. Schuh5, Loretta Silverman6, Vincent Tinto7, Amaury Nora8, Alan Seidman9 ...
    Series series The ACE Series on Higher Education
    Although access to higher education is virtually universally available, college student retention stills remains a vexing and puzzling problem for educators and legislators.In College Student Retention: Formula for Student Success, second edition, Alan Seidman deals with this problematic issue by examining a number of areas critical to the retention of students, including the history, the theories ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Aging, Society, and the Life Course

    by Leslie A. Morgan, PhD, Suzanne R. Kunkel, PhD ...
    "[This] book’s unfading preoccupation with social context, social processes, and social structures distinguishes itself and greatly contributes to the discourse in gerontology."-The GerontologistThis classic text, now in its fifth edition, is distinguished by its emphasis on social context, social processes, and social structures as part of a broader understanding of the sociology of aging and the ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Elder Abuse and Mistreatment

    by Joanna Mellor, Patricia Brownell ...
    Provide the most effective service possible to help victims of this growing social problemElder Abuse and Mistreatment is a comprehensive overview of current policy issues, new practice models, and up-to-date research on elder abuse and neglect. Experts in the field provide insight into elder abuse with newly examined populations to create an understanding of how to design service plans for ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Community-Based Participatory Research for Health

    Advancing Social and Health Equity

    Edited by Nina Wallerstein, Bonnie Duran, John G. Oetzel, Meredith Minkler ...
    The definitive guide to CBPR concepts and practice, updated and expandedCommunity-Based Participatory Research for Health: Advancing Health and Social Equity provides a comprehensive reference for this rapidly growing field in participatory and community-engaged research. Hailed as effective by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, CBPR and CEnR represent the link between researchers and ... Read more

    $81.00 USD

  • Community Organization and Social Administration

    Advances, Trends, and Emerging Principles

    by Simon Slavin, Terry Mizrahi, Phd, John D Morrison ...
    Community Organization and Social Administration presents a unique constellation of perspectives from scholars, researchers, and practitioners grounded in macro theories, practice, and education. Drawing upon the knowledge and experiences of social workers and other community-based professionals, this book provides a rich cross-section of models and strategies for those engaged in social change in ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Ageism: Where It Comes From and What It Does

    by Alan S. Gutterman ...
    According to the United Nations, the number of older-age adults across the world has almost quintupled in the last 65 years and by 2050 1 in 6 people in the world will be over the age of 65, up from 1 in 11 in 2019. Among the main drivers of the exponential growth in the older population in developed countries have been increases in the quality of life and life expectancy accompanied by decreases ... Read more

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