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Reviews key legislative changes that have been made in the Older Americans Act since 1965. Analyzes these changes within the context of the four stages of its evolution: (1) initial implementation; (2) rapid expansion; (3) consolidation and long-term care concerns; and (4) targeting and prioritization of services. (JOW)

Immigration in the United States increased dramatically during the 1980s but its meaning for the field of aging has not been fully explored. This article explores the impact of immigration on first-generation immigrant women in Australia who are providing care for their parents. The women are from a variety of European and Asian countries. They must not only provide care for their parents but must also mediate conflicts between their parents, their spouse, and their children. The intergenerational issues found in this situation have implications for social work services in the United States.

This article reports survey data from nursing home professional social workers on their practice circumstances, prior education and training, and current training needs. This data supports the growing body of evidence that a significant portion of social work practitioners are unlikely to have received the depth of information and the specialized skills required to work with the aged and their families during their formal education. Assuming limited personnel and time, and the responsibility of many different persons for psychosocial care - the practice reality in nursing homes today - this data can guide education and training efforts.

A questionnaire administered to older Russian Jews who recently migrated to the United States and who now live in New York City probed their attitudes toward assistance from informal and formal agency sources. Results indicated a reliance on agencies for assistance and a need to examine relevance of traditional paradigms of ethnic cultures. (Author/ABB)

Examines factors related to differing trends in development of services for older persons in the United States and West Germany. Traces differing historical development of two countries and relates development to structure of services for elderly; role of professionals in developing services; and relative emphases on primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention. Considers future trends in both countries. (Author)

Examined intergenerational relationships and roles of older Salvadoran late-life immigrants to the United States. Found many similarities between these parents' roles in El Salvador and in United States, but fewer were employed and more had assumed childcare responsibilities. Children had strong sense of filial obligation; parents asked for little concrete assistance from their children. (Author/NB)

While the family and Catholic church remained important sources of preferred support, increased willingness to utilize institutional long-term care was noted. Favoring proprietary services indicated continued negative attitudes towards public auspices and possible support for a multi-tiered service delivery system for the aged. (Author)

What is the relationship between ethnicity and the mental health problems of the elderly in American society? This paper offers some suggestions and reviews some data that might encourage further efforts in this area. (Author)

Discusses potential benefits of service-learning in aging--to students, university, and community. Examines opportunities for service-learning using examples from the current Intergenerational Service-Learning Project of the National Council on Aging. The complexity of initiating and gaining acceptance of service-learning in aging projects is explored. (Author/JAC)

Louis Kushnick, Race, Class & Struggle: Essays on Racism and Inequality in Britain, the US and Western Europe. (London and New York: Rivers Oram Press, 1998), 262 pp. Louis Kushnick [...]

Presents a study which aimed to develop a work-site cancer education and detection program targeted for Latino women. Limitation of knowledge about breast cancer etiology and detection among segments of Latino population; Cancer incidence among Latinos; Impact of cultural values on the responsiveness of Latinos to cancer education and detection programs.

The article discusses that the use of traditional culture models or paradigms for the assessment of ethnicity is fraught with serious problems. The most fundamental problem is that ethnic culture is now being proposed as a variable that is ipso facto vital in an individual or family situation. rather than as a concept whose importance must be assessed along with other potentially significant factors. Even when this problem is recognized, the tendency is to slip into reification of ethnic culture, that is. to attribute an independent or real existence to a mental creation. Accepting traditional ethnic culture as a given leads to a number of possible analytical errors, including reductionism and unwarranted generalizations. Reductionism occurs when the effects of factors such as class and religion are mistakenly assumed to be the effects of ethnicity. Unwarranted generalizations take many forms, but among the more common are characterizations about ethnic groups that ignore important intra-ethnic group differences. Even a quick sampling of the recent literature on ethnicity reveals a large number of attributions that may be questionable in relation to contemporary ethnic populations in modernized, industrialized societies such as the United States.

This article reports survey data from nursing home professional social workers on their practice circumstances, prior education and training, and current training needs. This data supports the growing body of evidence that a significant portion of social work practitioners are unlikely to have received the depth of information and the specialized skills required to work with the aged and their families during their formal education. Assuming limited personnel and time, and the responsibility of many different persons for psychosocial care -the practice reality in nursing homes today-- this data can guide education and training efforts. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

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In times of shrinking resources and growing needs, the aging network must increase its efforts to involve the voluntary sector in services and programs for the aged. A relatively untapped source of manpower is our nation's 12,300,000 students in 3,200 colleges and universities.This article, based on the findings of a national demonstration project, examines feasible outcomes and practical limitations of service-learning as an approach for increasing the involvement of students in providing services to older persons. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

This article reports some findings from a national demonstration project involving the National Council on the Aging (NCOA) and thirteen colleges and universities. We studied 39 courses in which students were involved in service‐learning in aging. We describe and discuss (1) the range of demonstrably feasible adaptions, (2) what faculty say their students learned from the experiences, and (3) faculty perceptions of personal benefits and costs associated with developing and directing these projects. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]