Self-Neglecting Elders

ELOISE RATHBONE-McCUAN is Associate Chief of Social Work Service at the Colmery-O'Neil V.A. Medical Center and Adjunct Professor of Social Welfare at the University of Kansas. She is co-author (with Joan Hashimi) of Isolated Elders (1982) and co-editor (with Betty Havens) of North American Elders (Greenwood Press, 1988).DOROTHY R. FABIAN is a gerontologist-consultant with the Geriatric Hip Fracture Program at the Hospital for Joint Diseases Orthopedic Institute in New York. She has directed programs in long-term care and case management in support of community living for frail elderly and is the co-editor (with Anne Somers) of The Geriatric Imperative (1981).

• ForewordPrefaceOverviewElder Self-Neglect: a Blurred ConceptA General Framework for Elder Self-NeglectSystems ConsiderationsEthical Issues in Working with Self-NeglectPsychiatric and Biomedical Considerations in Self-NeglectA Family Systems Perspective of Self-NeglectSpecial Risks and SubgroupsInstitutional Care Settings and Self-NeglectOlder Developmentally Disabled Adults and Self-NeglectGeriatric Alcoholism and Self-NeglectGeriatric Protective Services and Self-NeglectConclusionResearch and Clinical Directions in Self-NeglectBibliographyIndex