Elaine Jurkowski 
Policy and Program Planning for Older Adults [EPUB ebook] 
Realities and Visions

This authoritative book serves as an invaluable resource for policy advocates, program planners, and service delivery agents. It provides an overview of the major pieces of legislation that currently impact the field of aging, and the lives of older adults; addresses the philosophical, historical, and demographic challenges that they face; and lays out tools that facilitate policy and program development to include the media, coalition building, the use of an evidence base, and health promotion strategies. Jurkowski also examines major service areas for older adults, and how each major mandated program addresses these programs and services–a must for the program planner or a service delivery setting.

The book is also extremely helpful to graduate students in social work, public health, and gerontology, building their understanding of policy development through a critical analysis and review of policy frameworks, and promotes development of skills in shaping programs and implementing policy. Unlike other books in this field, Policy and Program Planning for Older Adults focuses on triangulating skills, policies, and programs for the reader, and blends a social welfare and public health approach to the text’s conceptual design.

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List of Figures

List of Tables

Foreword

Preface

PART 1: Understanding Policy and Program Development

Background and Demographic Profile of Older Adults

Social, Political, Economic and Demographic Factors and Historical Landmarks Impacting Aging Policy

Philosophical Paradigms and Policy Frameworks

PART II: The Legislative Basis for Programs and Services Affecting Older Adults and/or People with Disabilities

The Social Security Act

Medicare

The Older Americans Act

The Americans with Disabilities Act

Mental Health: The Community Mental Health Act and the President’s Freedom Initiative

PART III: Tools for Program and Policy Development

Health Behavior Models

Media and Advocacy Strategies for Change

Coalitions and Coalition Building for Advocacy and Policy Development

Needs Assessment Tools

From Tools to Vision

Using Tools and Strategies to Reach Your Vision

PART IV: Programs and Services: Realities and Visions

Long Term Care and Home and Community-Based Care

Mental Health and Substance Abuse Programs: Services and Issues

Health Programs Services And Issues

Grandparents Raising Grandchildren

Elder Abuse and Neglect

Legal Issues

Challenges for the Future: Realities and Visions

Appendices

1.SAMHSA’s Action Plan for Older Adults

2.A Sample White Paper Devised Using the Process Implemented in this Book

Bibliography

Index
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Elaine Theresa Jurkowski, Ph D, MSW, is a professor at Southern Illinois University Carbondale’s School of Social Work, where she teaches courses in health and aging policy, research, and program evaluation and social work practice. Dr. Jurkowski also holds joint appointments with the Department of Public Health and Recreation Professions and SIU’s School of Medicine’s Family Practice Residency Program.