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Social Work articles from November 1999
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Social Work archives from November 1999
Gerontological Social Work and the UN International Year of Older Persons.
November 1, 1999... To highlight the United Nations International Year of Older Persons and to increase awareness of social work issues related to older people, the editor of Social Work conducted an interview with four distinguished social workers involved in...
Friendship and Social Support: The Importance of Role Identity to Aging Adults.
November 1, 1999... This article proposes role identity theory as a means of integrating the diverse frameworks and findings that populate the social support literature, and it highlights the importance of the friendship role on life satisfaction for aging adults. A...
Use of Health and Human Services by Community-Residing People with Dementia.
November 1, 1999... This article reports on the use of and need for health and human services by community-residing people with dementia. Telephone interviews were conducted with a sample of 608 caregivers of such individuals who were randomly selected from a...
Hospice Access and Use by African Americans: Addressing Cultural and Institutional Barriers through Participatory Action Research.
November 1, 1999... This article describes a participatory action research project addressing the problem of African American access to and use of hospice. Qualitative interviews conducted with six African American pastors resulted in the identification of major...
Critical Action Research: A Model for Social Work Knowing.
November 1, 1999... In response to the important philosophical and methodological questions being asked in social work, this article presents a model for social work knowing that is founded on the tenets of critical theory synthesized with principles and practices...
Choosing an Adult Foster Home or a Nursing Home: Residents' Perceptions about Decision Making and Control.
November 1, 1999... Representative samples of 260 Oregon foster care residents and 179 cognitively intact nursing home residents were queried retrospectively about the nature and circumstances surrounding their decision to move to a foster care or nursing home,...
The Bell Curve: Race, Socioeconomic Status, and Social Work.
November 1, 1999... The ongoing debate on the interrelationship among race, socioeconomic status, and social problems has again been brought to the fore by the recent publication of books by biological determinists, most notably The Bell Curve: Intelligence and...
Labor and the Intellectuals: Where is Social Work?
November 1, 1999... For the past two decades, the U.S. labor movement has faced serious difficulties. A concerted corporate attack on unions, combined with government policies that inhibit labor organizing, has diminished the percentage of the U.S. workforce...