Elder Care and Service Learning

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Elder Care and Service Learning A Handbook

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Susanne Bleiberg Seperson, Carol Hegeman

ISBN: 0-86569-305-6

ISBN-13: 978-0-86569-305-0

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264 pages

Praeger Publishers

Publication: 3/30/2002

List Price: $98.95 (UK Sterling Price: £68.95)

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Media Type: Hardcover

Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4

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Description: Using a multidisciplinary approach to service learning in elder care, Seperson and Hegeman assist students in their actual experience with clients. With this text in hand, a professor can offer students an overview of all aspects of aging, community service, and social policy without putting 40 different articles on reserve.

Part I describes the diverse service-learning experience. Part II provides basic information on aging from demographic, biological, physiological, and psychosocial perspectives. Part III describes a service learning classroom and the many tools a student and a professor can use to maximize the learning in this special kind of class. Part IV is devoted to communication. Here, interviewing, surveying, and oral history skills are defined.

Part V helps the student prepare for the unexpected—what to do when one is actually in a service learning experience with an elder or a group of elders. Part VI is devoted to elder-care policy. Students and their professors will gain a perspective on how to think about and debate issues about aging. Part VII is devoted to case studies of very different service-learning experiences. Following are four comprehensive appendixes, including annotated bibliographies for further reading about service-learning and aging, a code of ethics, and a service learning elder-care manual for implementation of a program.

Table of Contents:

Preface
What Is Service Learning?
Basic Information on Aging
The Service-Learning Class
Communication Skills
Doing Service Learning with the Elderly
Elder-Care Issues, Policy and History
Case Studies of Service-Learning Experiences
Appendixes
Index

About the Author: SUSANNE BLEIBERG SEPERSON is Professor of Sociology of Dowling College, Oakdale, New York./e

CAROL HEGEMAN is Director of Research of the Foundation for Long Term Care, Albany, New York./e

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