Baby Boomers of Color

Melvin Delgado is codirector of the Center for Addictions Research and Services, chair of macro-practice, and professor of social work at the Boston University School of Social Work. He brings almost forty years of practice, research, and scholarship focused on Puerto Rican and other Latino groups in the United States. Bilingual and bicultural, he has focused his professional and academic career on developing urban-based outreach and service delivery models that are culturally competent, stressing participatory democratic principles, and tapping cultural strengths and assets. He is the author of more than twenty books, including Latino Small Businesses and the American Dream: Community Social Work Practice and Economic and Social Development and Social Work Practice with Latinos: A Cultural Assets Paradigm and Social Work Practice with Immigrant and Refugee Youth in the United States.

• Preface and Acknowledgments Part 1. Setting the Context 1. Overview 2. Two Perspectives on Baby Boomers 3. Boomer Demographic Profile and Trends 4. A Demographic Focus on Baby Boomers of Color 5. Health Needs 6. Financial Indicators Part 2. Cultural Assets 7. Baby Boomer Assets: A Conceptual Foundation 8. Family-Focused Assets 9. Neighborhood/Community-Focused Assets Part 3. Implications for Policy 10. Classification of Asset-Driven Interventions 11. Policy, Practice, and Research Implications Epilogue References Index

Baby Boomers of Color is an important exposure of the impending ethical and practice issues confronted by gerontologists who must now take concerted efforts to train and support social workers who reflect the racial and ethnic composition of baby boomers of color. Furthermore, the book provides pertinent advice to social work educators for preparing the next generation of gerontologists and social workers in the aging society of America. -- Heung Bong Cha, president of the International Association of Gerontology and Geriatrics This book looks more deeply into so-called minority groups and the impact of aging. It is important because of its attempt to address the intersection of aging and minority or marginalized status and will hopefully prompt more work in this important area. -- Jay Poole, University of North Carolina-Greensboro Outstanding... A powerful addition to the social work literature on baby boomers. CHOICE