Social Work and Health Care in an Aging Society: Education, Policy, Practice, and Research

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SOCIAL WORK AND HEALTH CARE IN AN AGING SOCIETY: EDUCATION, POLICY, PRACTICE, AND RESEARCH Barbara J. Berkman (Ed.) and Linda Krogh Harootyan (Assoc. Ed.) New York: Springer Publishing Company, 2003, 408pp., $52.95 (hardcover).

Berkman and Harootyan have assembled 16 articles, based largely upon research of the Hartford Geriatric Scholars Work Faculty Program, for the purpose of integrating "the concepts of aging and health care ... in social work educational programs, social-work policy considerations, social work practice, and social work research" (p. 6). Each article of Social Work and Health Care in an Aging Society is divided into sections on current research needs, future …