Mark E F Lymbery 
Social Work with Older People [EPUB ebook] 

This book provides an up-to-date and authoritative overview of the development of social work with older people in the UK. The coherent structure draws together the key themes involved in working with older people, and clearly demonstrates how to translate these into real-life practice.

Key features of the book include:

– Establishes an understanding of the policy context within which social work takes place, with particular attention to key topics such as inter-professional collaboration and ethics.

– Goes beyond other textbooks to challenge the restricted nature of social work practice, and adopts a positive view of its potential to benefit older people.

– An engaging and practice-led approach which includes student-friendly features and detailed practice scenarios.

– Satisfies the curriculum benchmarks and National Occupational Standards that structure social work training and practice.

Written by a leading academic, this is a key text for social work trainees. Its analytical depth will ensure that it will also be valuable for students undertaking post-qualifying courses, and for those in related disciplines such as health and community care, social policy and social gerontology. Its practice-based and inter-professional approach will mean it is also useful for health and social care practitioners seeking to improve the quality of practice with older people.

`Drawing on both theory and research as well as the author′s clear knowledge of current practice, this book is able to deal with practice realities in ways which many texts cannot. It offers social workers realistic options for how to approach their work′ – Karen Postle, University of East Anglia

Table des matières

PART ONE: CONTEXT

Older People and Society

The History and Development of Social Work

PART TWO: POLICY

Community Care Policy

Partnership, Collaboration and Inter-Professional Working

Social Work and Health Care

Historical Connections

PART THREE:PRACTICE

The Developing Social Work Role with Older People

The Social Work Role in Assessment of Older People

Care Management and Social Work

A Marriage Made in Heaven?

Intermediate Care

Social Work – The Forgotten Profession?

A propos de l’auteur

Mark Lymbery is Senior Lecturer in Social Work at the University of Nottingham. He previously worked as a Social Worker for many years and is a member of the British Association of Social Workers.