Hallie Baker

Aging with a Disability Versus Disability with Age

A New Theoretical Model to Conceptualize Clients with Disability

Buch

Over the past thirty years, the number of individuals aging with disability continues to increase. As more individuals live and age with a disability, professionals in healthcare and mental health need to conceptualize disability as a lifelong condition instead of an acute condition with little consideration of possible future transitions. The Life Course Disability model presented here seeks to bridge that gap and help professionals understand disability as both an acute and a chronic condition with the possibility of multiple transitions throughout one's lifespan. Using polio survivors to illustrate its dimensions, the reliability and usefu… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-3-659-27532-6
EAN: 9783659275326
Produktnummer: 37743111
Verlag: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
Seitenangabe: 120 S.
Masse: H22.0 cm x B15.0 cm x D0.7 cm 197 g
Abbildungen: Paperback
Gewicht: 197

Über den Autor

Dr. Hallie Baker is a professor at Muskingum University. Her interest and scholarship in the area of disability developed from personal experience as the daughter of a polio survivor who is now experiencing the later effects of polio. Dr. Baker is also a licensed social worker with experience in long-term care and case management.