Active Ageing and Demographic Change

Challenges for social work and social policy

Siniša Zrinščak, Susan Lawrence (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

140 Seiten

2015
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-93738-3 (ISBN)

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Although demographic change has been a widely discussed topic for decades, its scope, social impact and related policy responses leave us with many unresolved social issues. Demographic change is a reality for all European societies but the ways in which it is taking place differ from country to country. Active ageing both as a concept and policy response to the demographic ageing of populations has been widely debated, researched and utilised, informing both policy and practice, and providing a common narrative framework to ageing. However, there continues to be a lack of clarity around the precise meaning of ‘active ageing’.

This book explores the way in which social work is critically engaging with the theme of active ageing, in light of, or maybe as a reaction to, the policy responses witnessed within the context of large-scale and rapid demographic change. This book was originally published as a special issue of the European Journal of Social Work.

Siniša Zrinščak is Professor of Sociology and Social Policy in the Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb, Croatia. He was previously Head of the Department of Social Work of the Faculty of Law of the University of Zagreb (2007-2011), and Editor-in-Chief of the Croatian Journal of Social Policy (2002-2009). Susan Lawrence is President of the European Association of Schools of Social Work, Regional Vice President of the International Association of Schools of Social Work, and until 2013 was Head of Social Work at London Metropolitan University, UK. She qualified as a social worker in 1976 and has been a social work academic since 1991.

Introduction 1. Look after yourself: active ageing, individual responsibility and the decline of social work with older people in the UK 2. Social work and intervention with older people in Portugal: a critical point of view 3. Social policy, social work and age care in Nepal: mapping services and missing links 4. Austerity, personalisation and older people: the prospects for creative social work practice in England 5. Care workers in long-term care for older people: challenges of quantity and quality 6. Framing of intimate care in home care services 7. Social counselling for older people – between advice and therapy 8. Critical educational gerontology: what has it got to offer social work with older people?

Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	174 x 246 mm
Gewicht	408 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Pflege ► Altenpflege
	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Sozialpädagogik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-138-93738-X / 113893738X
ISBN-13	978-1-138-93738-3 / 9781138937383
Zustand	Neuware